Cylchgronau Cymru

TABLE I Sowing times of crops grown on the Gogerddan demesne farm 1 818-12 Crop Seed Time Variety Comments Wheat Late Oct./Mid- Lammas Nov. Talavera Barley Late Feb./Early Mid/Late April March (Lloyd & Tumor)' Oats Mid-late April Tartarian Not sown in Rhosfawr in 1822 until May 22 Flax Late April Beans Mid-Feb./Early Heligoland Not sown in Cae March and Tick Tanycoed in 1822 until April 4th Peas Mid-March Potatoes Early potatoes/ Mid-March Maincrop/Mid-May Turnips May/June Besides growing a wide range of cereal, root and pulse crops for sale and home consumption, the farm carried a substantial livestock population, details of which are summarised in Table II. The figures in Table II have been derived by adopting the method of Yelling who expressed stocking capacity on the basis of livestock units where the index figure of 1.0 represents the feed requirements of one cow. On this basis, horses have been assigned the value of 1.0, sheep and lambs 0.1, oxen, bullocks and steers 1.2, other cattle 0.8 and pigs 0.11°. The numbers refer to the livestock situation on January 1st of each year.