APPLICATION TO AGRICULTURE. 129 



Pumping — Brought forward, £5181 13 6 



Encaneer's salary, 78 



General expenses, . . . . . . 62 10 1 



Coals, 191 4 8 



Balance, 270 4 



Gr. Stock in hand, December 31, 1880, 

 Working plant and live stock. 

 Live and dead stock — dairy, .... 

 Crops sold by auction, ..... 

 Crops sold by manager, 

 Com, rye-grass, and hay consumed, 

 Permanent works, income tax, land tax repaid. 

 Rent returned by Captain Pothill Turner, 

 Balance, ....... 



£5513 8 3 



The rateable value of the town on which the assessments are 

 laid is £75,361, and the number of houses (which are rapidly 

 increasino) is 4100. Dairying was commenced in March 1880 

 in a small way, and 19 cows are now generally kept in milk. 

 The yearly amount realised per cow is about £27 or £28, but 

 many of the cows are after the first calving. For the milk 9d. 

 per gallon is obtained in summer, and lOd. in winter. In 

 summer the cows are kept in the house from 5 o'clock a.m. to 5 

 P.M. They are fed with 1^ to 1^ cwt. of rye grass and from 3 

 to 6 lbs. of cotton cake per day. At night they have the run of 

 seven acres of old pasture. In winter they are kept entirely in 

 the house, unless in fine weather, when they are turned out for 

 a few hours, and they have about 5 lbs. cotton and linseed cake, 

 pulped mangels, chaff, and a small quantity of brewer's grains. 

 The best milkers have also about half a peck of crushed oats 

 per day. Before the dairy was commenced, buildings had to be 

 provided for cows and pigs, &c., as well as a house for the 

 manager, whicli cost £1300 in all Mr John H. Collet manages 

 the farm to the entire satisfaction of the authorities, and it is a 

 work that demands skill, labour, and attention, as may be 

 inferred from the following tabular statement. It comprises 

 the acreage and average price per acre of each crop for the past 

 seven years, as well as the averages of the whole crops of the 

 seven years. 



Italian rye-grass and mangels are the two special crops on 

 irrigation farms, in consequence of their capacity for absorbing 

 large quantities of sewage, and on tlie liedford farm 50 to 00 

 acres of these two crops are grown annually. Tlu'y are crops 

 which must be sold in the neiijlibourhoud, as they would not 

 aflord carriage by railway ; but the quantity grown was beyond 

 the demands and requirements of the town and neighbourhood, 



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