590 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition 0/1874. 



to me, dated August 17th, Mr. Phillips says, "My carrots will 

 beat any other roots this season." 



Potter or Chevalier barley is usually sown at the rate of 

 2 bushels per acre, and a change of seed is obtained from the 

 chalk or clay districts every season. 



The same system is also adopted with regard to the seed 

 wheat, 7 pecks of Browick being drilled per acre. 



The average yield of corn for the last four years is as 

 follows : — 



Qrs, Bush. 



Wheat 4 li 



Barley 5 ^ 



Peas 5 2 nearly. 



Beans, two years b 2^ 



Oats, only last year 6 



Red and white clover are sown alternately every four years 

 on the light land, and on the strong land every eight years, 

 beans and peas being substituted ; 12 lbs. of clover and 4 lbs. of 

 trefoil per acre are used. 



Mr. Phillips has a herd of twenty-one well-bred shorthorn 

 cows, the calves from which are all reared, the best of the heifers 

 being retained for stock, anjd the remainder fed off. A con- 

 siderable number of cattle are also purchased annually for 

 grazing, and those not sold during the summer are stall-fed, 

 having 8 lbs. of cake, 1 bushel of roots, with hay, straw, and 

 chaff daily. 



180 very- good Oxford Down ewes are kept, and the average 

 fall is rather more than a lamb and a-half to a ewe. No 

 expense has been spared in procuring the best rams, which have 

 been purchased from the flocks of Messrs. C. Howard and 

 Treadwell. After lambing, the ewes have about 1^ lb. of oats 

 with chaff per day, and upon this allowance they appeared in 

 good condition. The ewe tegs are kept during the winter in 

 good store condition on roots and clover chaff, and the feeding- 

 tegs, of which a number are purchased in addition to those bred 

 on the farm, have a little cake, and are clipped and sold fat. 

 The produce of seven breeding sows are annually fattened, 

 a portion of which are sold. 



Seven working horses are used on the farm. 



Average quantity of cake and corn consumed 



during the last four years £670 



Artificial manures 113 



Average labour account for last four years. . . . 553 



