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thirty  years.  It  may  be  described  as  a poor  bard-working 
clay  farm,  full  of  condition  and  showing  good  management 
all  round.  The  tenant  is  not  under  any  restrictions  as  to 
cropping.  There  are  70  acres  of  arable  land  and  422  of 
pasture,  60  of  which  have  been  sown  down  recently.  The 
soil  is  a heavy  clay,  particularly  the  vale  land,  which  requires 
four  and  five  horses  to  plough  it,  and  half  an  acre  per  day  is 
good  work.  On  the  hill  it  is  “ three-horse  ” land.  The 
rotation  of  cropping  is  as  follows  : — 
Vale  land  Hill  land 
Fallows  Roots 
I I 
Beans  Barley  or  oats 
I I 
Wheat  Seeds 
I I 
(Barley  sometimes)  Wheat. 
I 
Clover 
I 
Wheat 
I 
Fallows. 
The  vale  land  fallows  are  ploughed  as  many  times  as  can 
be  managed,  Mr.  Dudfield  being  of  opinion  that  the  plough  is 
the  best  kind  of  “ scuffle  ” on  his  land. 
Beans  are  manured  with  15  tons  per  acre  of  farmyard 
dung,  and  yield  from  40  to  50  bushels  per  acre.  Wheat  is 
seldom  manured  in  any  way.  Square  Head’s  Master  is  the 
variety  sown,  and  should  be  planted  during  October  or  the  first 
week  in  November  on  this  farm.  A three-furrow  drill  is  used 
at  all  times.  Wheat  yields  run  from  40  to  50  bushels.  Barley 
is  sometimes  grown  after  wheat  on  the  vale  land,  when  it 
has  become  “ bean  sick.”  On  this  heavy  land  there  is  a 
tendency  to  put  in  beans  too  often,  and  the  growing  of  barley 
gives  two  white  straw  crops,  which  is  a better  preparation  for 
the  clover  crop.  The  clover  mixture  for  the  vale  land  is  6 lb. 
cow  grass  clover,  6 lb.  English  broad  red  clover,  and  6 lb- 
alsike  per  acre.  For  the  hill  land  the  following  is  used  : — 
6 lb.  cow  grass  clover,  6 lb.  English  broad  red  clover,  4 lb. 
alsike  clover,  4 lb.  white  clover,  and  1 bushel  Italian  rye- 
grass per  acre. 
Roots  are  grown  on  the  hill  land.  Mangold  are  manured 
with  20  tons  per  acre  of  farmyard  dung  and  10  cwt.  of 
mangold  manure ; a top-dressing  of  1 cwt.  of  sulphate  of 
ammonia  and  1 cwt.  nitrate  of  soda  per  acre  is  given  in  two 
