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if possible and subsequently cross-ploughed in February. The 
land is then set up in drills and receives 7 cwt. per acre of 
potato manure when the potatoes are being put in. The 
Up-to-date variety is the one most favoured here. The sets 
are obtained from Scotland and grown for two years, half of 
the potato land being planted with new seed each year. The 
crop is taken up by a potato digger, and averages 10 tons per 
acre. There is a ready market for any seed potatoes there 
may be to spare and an excellent local market for the “ ware,” 
practically all of which can be disposed of at retail prices. 
When the potatoes follow a clover crop their treatment is 
similar, the manure being carted on the clover ley. Should 
there be any land for potatoes that could not be manured and 
ploughed in the autumn or winter as usual, it is manured 
direct into the drills in springtime with 20 to 25 tons per 
acre of well-rotted pit dung, and does not generally receive 
anything further unless the ground is considered to be cold 
or low in condition, in which case some special potato manure 
is added. 
Wheat follows the potatoes and is sown in the autumn ; the 
Square Head’s Master variety is drilled at the rate of 8 
pecks to the acre. For spring sowing White Chaff White at 
10 pecks per acre is used. New seed is obtained every second 
year. It is expected that the land will be left clean and in 
good heart after the potatoes, therefore no special manure is 
given nor is it considered necessary to hoe the wheat crop, 
which is usually only looked over for thistles, &c. The wheat 
crops were good and clean. 
Clover, «fcc. — The seeds are sown under a white crop and the 
mixture used consists of G lb. English Red Clover, 1 lb. Alsike, 
2 lb. Cow Grass, and 1^ pecks Italian Rye Grass per acre. This 
lies for one year only and is all hayed twice within the season, 
with the exception of such portions of the second crop as are 
cut green for the cows. A top-dressing of 1^ cwt. per acre 
of nitrate of soda is given to the seeds in the spring. 
Should it for any reason be desirable or necessary to leave 
the seeds down for a second year, they are then manured with 
farm-yard manure in the autumn and possibly top-dressed in 
the spring. The seed crops were excellent, showing great bulk 
and wonderful growth. 
Grass Land. — This consists of 12 acres of old meadow and 
38 acres of pasture. Each year one half of the 12 acres of 
meadow is manured in the autumn with 10 tons per acre of 
well-rotted manure which has been made by the cows and 
horses during the summer. The 38 acres of pasture land 
receive every third year 10 cwt. per acre of basic slag, and 
show great improvement. * 
