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manure is applied at the rate of thirty loads per acre. The 
drills are then split back and rolled down to a certain 
extent with a Cambridge roller. Turnip seed is drilled on 
the ridges at the rate of 3 lb. per acre. No artificials 
are given at time of sowing, and top-dressings are seldom 
necessary. No turnips are eaten by sheep on the land, the 
turnips being pulled off towards the end of the year and put 
into heaps. 
Potatoes. — The land for potatoes receives similar treatment 
to that given to turnips, with the exception of the drills being 
thirty inches apart. New seed, of the “Factor” and “ Up-to- 
Date ” variety, is obtained from Scotland every year, about 
15 cwt. of seed per acre being used. The setting of the 
potatoes is all done by female labour, and the hoeings are done 
by Irishmen who have come over to Brunton regularly for 
twenty-four years. Good crops of potatoes can be grown on 
this land and there is a ready market for the produce, one 
merchant having taken the whole growth for the past fifteen 
years. 
Barley is taken after turnips and no manuring is given, 
“ Burton Malting ” being the variety most favoured. Oats 
come after potatoes and are not specially manured. 
Seeds.— Seeds of the following mixture : — 2 pecks finest 
Perennial Rye Grass, 1 peck finest Italian, 1 lb. finest Cocksfoot, 
2 lb. Timothy, 1 lb. Meadow Fescue, 4 lb. Alsike Clover, 1 lb. 
Cowgrass Clover, 2 lb. White Dutch Clover, 2 lb. Red Clover, 
1 lb. Trefoil Clover per acre are sown under the barley and 
oat crops, and usually lie for four years ; but Mr. Reay 
frequently allows them to lie much longer, even up to ten 
years, as he considers this resting of the land under seeds to be 
beneficial to it. 
In the ordinary course the seeds are mown for hay for the 
first two years. Should they lie more than two years they are 
generally manured with farm-yard manure, but are seldom 
grazed. They are usually top-dressed in the first year with 
1 cwt. per acre of sulphate of ammonia. 
Clover is sometimes sown to sell green in town, and a fair 
crop will yield good prices. 
The manure used to be led by carts to the farm, but a few 
years ago the landlord made a railway siding, where Mr. Reay 
now receives it in trucks. 
Stock. — The Stock consists of — 
Horses. — Ten farm horses, four milk-cart horses, and two 
cobs. The working horses are of the Clydesdale type and 
are good animals, three brood mares being kept to supply the 
farm as well as to provide a good horse occasionally for the 
Railway Company. 
