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subject to “ finger-and-toe,” received 2 tons per acre dog-kennel 
lime four years ago which completely cured the disease, with 
the result that this field has now a fine healthy crop of turnips. 
Mangolds are always drilled on the ridge and about two 
acres of this crop are grown each year. The dressing consists 
of six loads of spit dung and 3 cwt. of kainit per acre applied 
in the autumn ; a mixture of 3 cwt. superphosphate with 
1 cwt. of nitrate soda per acre is added in the spring, half being 
given at the time of sowing, the other half before the last 
scuffling. The root crops were all good and distinctly above 
the average notwithstanding the fact that the portion first sown 
had suffered from cold and drought. The mangolds were 
exceptionally good, but like all other crops of this root this 
year had a great many runners. 
Barley. — Barley is all grown after roots fed off by fattening 
sheep and breeding ewes, and is therefore not specially 
manured. The crops this year were particularly heavy and 
long in the straw. Hallett’s “ Chevalier ” barley is always 
grown, fresh seed being obtained each year from Major Hallett. 
Seeds. — This season’s mowing seeds were on the heavy 
“ Car ” land, on a portion of which Mr. Turton successfully 
experimented by dressing it the previous autumn with 7 cwt. 
per acre of basic slag; the crop and “eddish” on the treated 
portion being twice as heavy as those on the untreated portion. 
The seed mixtures used are per acre : — 
For mowing 
7 lb. red clover. 
7 lb. cow grass. 
\ peck dwarf rye grass. 
For grazing 
10 lb. white clover. 
2 lb. giant white clover. 
2 lb. alsike clover. 
2 lb. rib grass. 
2 lb. parsley. 
5 peck Italian rye grass, 
\ peck dwarf rye grass. 
Wheat. — Seven loads per acre of spit dung are applied to the 
fallows before they are finally cultivated for the ensuing wheat 
ci'op. The wheat crops seen were good with an abundance 
of straw, and looked like yielding a good crop. New seed, 
“ Square Head’s Master” and others, is bought every season for 
the “ Car ” land and then grown on the “Wold ” the succeeding 
year. 
Oats. — The oat crop, like the wheat, is manured with seven 
loads spit dung, receiving in addition 1 cwt. nitrate of soda 
and 2 cwt. superphosphate per acre during the first week in 
April. The crops seen were very good indeed. 
Feeding Stuffs and Manures. — About 100 quarters of farm 
produce is used for home consumption yearly, and, in addition. 
