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oats each per day. They had lambed down well, the sixty ewes 
having ninety lambs ; four lambs and one ewe had been lost 
since lambing. There had been no loss during lambing. We 
thought that it showed exceptionally good management to 
obtain such excellent results on cold, heavy land. Thirty ewe 
theaves were on the grass, and struck us as being an unusually 
fine lot. These were having ^ pint of corn per day. Thirty- 
one of the wether tegs had been sold in April at an average of 
47s. each, out of the wool. 
Pir/s . — Two sows are kept, of the Middle White breed, and 
these are crossed with the Tamworth, the produce having the 
refuse milk, &c., and being fatted out and sold. 
Wheat, with the exception of one field, where it had lost plant 
and had been filled in with spring wheat, looked very well. The 
Oats in one corner of a field had suffered a little from drought, 
but looked like making an average crop. 
Barley, of which only a very small acreage is sown, was 
after turnips fed with sheep, and gave promise of a magnificent 
yield. 
Beans, of which, compared with the size of the farm, a large 
acreage is sown, looked very promising. These were remark- 
ably free from weeds. One field, although it had never up to that 
time been hoed, was so clean that we could scarcely find a weed 
in the whole field. 
The crop of Clover and Bye-grass had evidently suffered 
from being fed so late, the sheep not having been taken off 
till the last week in April, and though very thick on the 
ground was rather short. It did not look like cutting a big 
croj?. This had been sown with 12 lb. of red clover and half a 
bushel of Italian rye-grass per acre. It had been manured in 
the winter with about 1 2 tons per aci’e of farmyard manure, and 
was to be cut twice. 
Mangel were rather backward, and had suffered much 
from the maggot, but the ground was very clean and free from 
weeds. 
The Swedes were not sown, but the land was nearly all 
ready for planting. About a boat load, or 25 to 30 tons, 
of Birmingham ash manure and 2 cwt. of poudrette (a 
Birmingham speciality) per acre had been used for these 
crops. 
Some of the grass land is low lying, and a part of it is liable 
to flood. It had been fed with sheep up to the first week in 
]\Iay, and was then shut up for mowing, but looked like cutting 
a very small swathe. That on the higher ground is of better 
quality, but nothing like first-class grass. 
