258 Bcport on the Farm Prize Competition. 



amounting to an outlay of about 1300?. An average of 24 feet 

 in width and 3 feet deep. 



Artificial Manures. — Mr. Dunn calculates his expense from 

 150/. to 200Z. a year, consisting chiefly of guano and super- 

 phosphate, with the addition of a little nitrate of soda ; the grass- 

 land being dressed every four years with guano, superphosphate, 

 and nitrate of soda at the cost of about 30^. per acre. 



Feeding Stuffs. — Amounting to nearly 20 tons in the year, 

 and consisting of a mixture of linseed, cotton, and Matthew's 

 compound cake. The latter we inspected, and, it seemed in 

 outward appearance, a clean good mixture of different descrip- 

 tions of corn. Mr. Dunn's estimated cost of cakes is about 200/. 

 a year. 



Labour. — Mr. Dunn seems to have gone into the cost of this 

 expensive item very minutely ; he calculates, over the whole 

 farm, the labour to amount to about 26^. an acre, and over the 

 tillage land to 36^. an acre; this Ave think worthy of notice. 



Day labourers receive I85. per Aveek usually, Avith beer; extra 

 wages in harvest, amounting for five weeks to about 40^. per 

 Aveek. The labourers on this farm also have some distance ta 

 Avalk to their work. 



Rates, 8fc. — Poor's-rate amounts to about Is. in the pound for 

 the year. 



There is no highway rate, though a great mileage of road. 

 Mr. Dunn has been surveyor for a great number of years, and 

 through his excellent management the highways in the district 

 have become self-supporting, even though there are no toll-gates. 

 It is done in this Avay — the roads are Avide, so the sides haA^e 

 been manured, &c., and noAv yield more hay than pays for the 

 repairs. We should not wonder soon to hear of Mr. Dunn 

 declaring a large bonus. All credit is due to him for the good 

 management in this department, Avhich to farmers in some 

 districts is now becoming a very serious item of expenditure. 



Sunk Island. 



The farm occupied by Mr. Charles Lambert has no distinctive 

 name, except being Sunk Island. Of course it is well knoAvn 

 that this land was reclaimed from the sea, the landlord being 

 the Crown. The whole extent of the farm consists of a strong 

 salt warp soil, with a peculiar subsoil of salt sand. Mr. Lam- 

 bert's farm extends to 596 acres, about 75 acres of which are in 

 grass. The farm is held from the CroAvn under a lease of 

 20 years, which expires in 1878 ; there is no tenant-right, but 

 the tenant seems to haA'e implicit faith that he Avill not be 

 disturbed. Though Mr. Lambert's farm is in the district of 



