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THE ESTATES GAZETTE
January 14, 1899.
Great difficulty may be experienced in keeping up the supply of milk, butter and eggs to regular customers, and the earliest calving cows will be very welcome.
January may be hard or open; if the latter, spring cultivation may be commenced, but probably the ground will be either too hard with frost• or too wet to touch. Fatting stock will begin to be sold off as they ripen, and so will the sheep on the roots. January will see the arrival of the early lambs, and the cows will calve more frequently, but there will still be more milk from the long-calved cows.
February should see the cultivation for barley, oats and mangolds well forward. Advantage should be taken of the condition of the soil to plough and harrow the land whenever possible, but this must be done with judgment. In the autumn we leave the surface rough, but for spring sowing of all kinds, a fine surface is required, and care must also be taken on light lands not to dissipate by too muich working of the soil the moisture necessary for seed germination. Cows will be calving, and the lambing season nearing a finish, except in late districts, and the fatting sheep on the roots will be sold off, having been helped in the lattei stages by allowances of cake and com.
March is the busiest month of the farm, with the exception of haymaking and harvest. All spring com is to be got in, and the earlier the better. For barley and oats on the folded roots, it will probably only be necessary to give a drag harrowing and two turns with the smaller harrows before the seed is drilled. Oats instead of wheat on the old clover ley will require more, probably a ploughing or cultivating before the drags. Clover seeds will be broadcasted over the barley. Potatoes will be planted this month, but those intended for very early markets ־will have been put in before. The spring sowing of summer green-food should be done now and onwards, so as to get a succession; vetches sown now! will come in about July. Cabbage are sown now for transplanting in early summer. Cheese-making begins where that form of dairying is practised. The dairy herd may on fine, warm days be allowed out on the pastures again for a few hours, as in an open winter they may have been all through; but they should never be allowed to stand about in the cold waiting to come in; and the store stock that have been wintered in the yards to be fatted off on the better class of pastures will go out- as well; the young calves following as soon as the weather permits, but there should: be no hurry to deprive any stock of the protection of buildings in cold weather, as they then require more food and may be injured permanently by exposure.
April should see the mangold crop sown. Wheat when dry may be rolled and horse-hoed. The preparation of the land for swedes and turnips proceeds, ploughing, dragging, harrowing and weed collecting till the land is clean and then split into ridges. Milk selling, butter or cheese-making, or whatever form the dairy work takes, will now be in full swing. Sheep are generally dipped this month.
May sees the turnip land in ridges. Where that system is adopted, the manure is spread between and the ridges split over it; the drill then follows, sowing the swedes on the top— turnips will be sown rather later. The early sown mangolds and potatoes will require horse and hand hoeing. All horned stock will now be out at grass, except very young calves. The earlier calves will be weaned and run out. Sheep-washing and shearing is done during May or June, and the wool sold. Rye and vetches sown in the autumn are coming in to provide the first green food.
June is chiefly occupied with sowing the last of the turnips and swedes, and horse and hand hoeing the others. As soon as large enough they should be singled out and hand hoed, generally three times. Horse hoeing is kept up till the roots get too large. Towards the end of the month the hay-making will begin, clover first and meadows afterwards, advantage of course being taken of fine weather for the purpose. Early cutting is preferable, as the hay will then be more nutritious than when the grass is allowed to get over ripe, and is less injurious to the meadow. After cutting round with the mower the hay should be left one day to dry and then turned over with tne tedder, and if the weather is at all risky, gathered up into cocks overnight, when under favourable circumstances it should be ready to carry from the third to the fifth day.
July sees the lambs weaned, and the ewes put on poorer diet again. Horses get a respite between the busy periods, and are probably turned out to grass at nights. Ditches and ponds may be cleaned out at dry times. Root hoeing goes on continuously, and the com crops will be getting ready for harvest, while haymaking will be finished. Thistles should be spudded on the pastures.
August is the harvest month. Winter oats will come in first, followed by barley and winter wheat, and finally spring oats and wheat. Barley must be allowed to get dead ripe so as to secure a uniform, bright sample for malting, but other corn crops are cut before dead ripe
8U88EX.
MR. A. BURTENSHAW,
AUCTIONEER, VALUER AND ESTATE AGENT,
Hailsham and Eastbourne,
Has in his hands for disposal the following Valu-able Properties.
woodland, and the remainder nearly all grass), with house and buildings.—Price £3,250. Timber and underwood at valuation.
]?AST SUSSEX.—Excellent House, good -Hi buildings, and 218 acres of land (136 acres grass, 60 arable, and 23 wood); good shooting and fishing.—Price, including timber and landlord’s fixtures, £6,500.
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good water supply and efficient drainage.
]?AST SUSSEX.—A valuable WATER. CORK
MILL, with dwelling house, buildings, and land. There is a capital miller’s and baker’s trade attached, and the death of the owner is the sole reason for selling.
TTAILSHAM.-
A.L —Several er
-Within a mile of the town.
, —Several enclosures of valuable Land, suitable for the erection of good residences, or for the formation of poultry farms. Areas from two to 3¡ acres.
]?ASTBOURNE.—An	excellent Detached
. Residence, in a good neighbourhood; has been in the occupation of the same tenant since its erection, about 16 years ago. Rent £170; ground rent £20 (redeemable at 30 years’ purchase). Lease 90 years from June, 1880.—Price £2,600.
TXURSTMONCEUX.—In a lovely neighbour-, T־ hood, a comfortable Family Residence, farm
nil 1 IH 1 n era OTiH 77 О ״ ״ ״ о	__ч i tv •
Price
“״״w, «	а лшау jAesiueiice,
Dull dings, and 33 acres of good meadow land-£4,000.
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each; would be divided.
A. BURTENSHAW,
HAILSHAM & EASTBOURNE
THE~ FARM :
ITS CARE AND MANAGEMENT.*
By H. W. RAFFETY, F.S.I.
III.
During October, the breaking up of the old clover ley and the sowing of next year’s wheat will he the principal work. The farmer will also have to sow the vetches or other crops which are to provide early green keep in the spring. The mangolds and potatoes will be harvested, and he will begin to feed off the turnips and swedes on the land ; for this purpose he will require to purchase store sheep now, unless he has reared his own from lambs dropped last spring and brings them to the farm with him. All the stubbles should be broken up this month if possible. The feeding and dairy cattle will be brought into the yards as soon as the nights get cold. The rams should be put to the ewes this month if they have not been already.
In November all the stubble ploughing is to be finished, and all autumn sowings also. The foldyard on the roots should, be followed close up by a shallow ploughing to cover up the manure. Dairy and feeding cattle would continue to be fed in the yards and byres. Fresh cows will probably have to be purchased to keep up the average milk supply during the winter. During bad weather, when other work is impossible, or as he finds he ־wants money, the farmer will be busy thrashing out his corn ricks. At other times chaff can be cut, and this applies all through the winter. Hedging should he done as soon as the leaves are off.
December is the month when it is most difficult to keep the farm hands employed. Advantage should be taken of all open weather to plough or otherwise cultivate the land. In frosty weather, or whenever the ground is hard enough, manure carting is to be done. There are also many jobs to be done in the way of cleaning and tidying up which have had to he left over from busier times, such as hedge planting and laying, fence and gate repairing, road making and׳ mending ; if any drainage is to be done, now is a good time, absence of frost permitting. Cattle, sheep and pigs are being fed for the Christmas market probably, and these require constant attention, and are fea better and better as they approach maturity.
* From " Land Agency,” new edition, revised and brought up to date by H. W. Raffety, F.S.I.
WEST KENT
DARTFORD DISTRICT
Messrs. DANK and LUCAS, Auctioneers, Surveyors and Land Agents. Dartford and Bexley, Kent, and 123, Cannon Street, E.C.
NORTH WALES.
BANGOR
Messrs. W. DEW and SON, Auctioneers, Yaluers, Estate Agents, Land Surveyors, fte.,
WELLFIELD, BANGOR, and Trinity Square, Llandudno.
PROPERTIES TO BE SOLD & LET
BY
PRIVATE TREATY.
Auction Sales conducted and Valuations made of Estates, Farms, Residences, Building Land, Farming Stock, Timber, Underwood, Tenant Right, Furniture, Fixtures, and other effects.
Properties surveyed and valued for Sale, Mortgage and Appeals against Bating, <£c.
Valuations for Probate and Legacy Duties.
Dilapidations assessed, Railway and other Compensation Claims adjusted. Rents, Tithes, &c., collected, and the manangement of large or small Estates, Farms, or Building Properties undertaken.
Surveys made, and the erection of Farm Buildings and Cottages superintended-
Agents to the Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Office, and the Ocean, Railway, and General Accident Assurance and Guarantee Companies.
SOUTH DEVON AND CORNWALL.
ELLIOTT, ELLIS & CO., F.A.I.
Auctioneers, Valuers, House and Estate Agents,
PLYMOUTH.
ESTABLISHED 1852.
LONDON & SOUTHEND ON SEA.
A. PREVOST AND SON ,
Auctioneers, Surveyors, Yaluers, Land and Estate Agents,
176, MILE END ROAD, LONDON, E ,
AND
102, HIGH STREET, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA.
(Opposite Middleton Hotel).
SALES BY AUCTION AND PRIVATE TREATY. Surveys and Reports, Valuations for Probate and other Purposes ; Mortgages negotiated at reduced rates ; Compensation Cases prepared and conducted ; Estates managed and Rents collected. Insurances of every description effected.
Telegraphic Address: “Notedness,” London. Telephones: London, No. 31 Eastern; Southend-on-Sea, No. 31.
PO £AA —SOUTHEND, near s^a, sfca-• tions &c.—Superior detached freehold Residence, well appointed, approached by carriage drive, spacious well matured grounds well stocked with fruit trees, tennis lawns, &c.; seven bed rooms, bath 100m, hot and cold, spacious hall, three reception rooms, offices, conservatory, stabling, coachhouse, harness rocm, &c. Immediate possession.
DEVON.
rpOTNES, near.—About 2¿ miles from rail J- and four miles from shipping communication. —To be Sold, at a moderate figure, with immediate possession, a valuable FREEHOLD SLATE QUARRY, together with the Machinery erected thereon. The superficial extent of the estate is about 21 acres. The quarry is at present worked to a depth of about 100ft., and there is an inexhaustible vein to work from. The quality of the slate is excellent, and there is a very large demand for the same at present throughout the whole of South Devon. With a small capital outlay one of the finest slate quarries in the West of England could be successfully worked and a lucrative and' thriving business carried on. Several reports made by experts wTho have visited these works can be inspected at the agents’ offices. Price on application.
7AA —Near	station, church, &c.
I V V• Detached freehold Residence, fine frontage, good position, excellent, gardens, orchard, vineiies, &c.; eight bed rooms, bath loom, spacious hall, three reception rooms, offices, stabling, coach-house, &c. Vacant possession.
f}Q C A A —Finest position in SOUTH-
cwv• END, double-fronted detached freehold Re idence. close to sea, station, &c.; eightbed and dressing rooms, doubledrawingioom. opening to conservatory, dining and other rooms and offices. Vacant possession.
A] 7AA —WESTOLIFF-ON-SEA.—
I vJv/• Freehold Residence, near station, sea, etc. Eight bed rooms, bath room (h. and c.), four reception rooms, offices, etc. Rental value £90.
״“,£1,500.
£1.400. £1,350, £1,150, £1.300.
£1.250, £1,100, etc., etc.—Messrs. A. t< , ,,	Prevost ;>nd Son have the above
.Freehold Residences for Sale, all excellently situate near sea and stations.—Particulars of all above posted free, from the offices, 102, High-street, Southend-on-
nnn ־־־ VALUABLE FREE-
HOLD GROUND RENT of £1,400 a year, with early reversion to an immense rental and premium.—Apply to A Prevost and Son, 102, High-street. Southend.
Telephones: S Southend No. 31;