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Among those who generously placed their cars at the 

 disposal of the Judges were Lord Cadogan, Lord Hastings, 

 Lord Leicester, the Dowager Countess of Leicester, Sir Ailwyn 

 Fellowes, Major Montgomerie, Sir Hugh Beevor, Mr. K. Wil- 

 liams, Magdalen College, Oxford, Mr. Pretyman, Mr. Brereton, 

 Sir Thomas Goocb, and Mr. Blofeld. Hospitality was most 

 kindly offered by many of the above, as well as by Sir Reginald 

 Beauchamp, Colonel Petre, Mr. Burroughes, Sir Eustace Gurney, 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, Mr. Henry, Mr. Mortimer, Mr. E. M. Hansel, 

 Mr. Hankins, and others. To all of these the Judges would 

 express their gratitude ; so much kindness made the work of 

 adjudication quite a pleasure. 



A.LEXANDER SLATER, 1 7- j 



Fraser Story, J ^^«^^«- 



FARM PRIZE COMPETITION, 1911. 



REPORT OF JUDGES IN CLASSES I. AND II. 



Those whose privilege it was to visit Norfolk and Suffolk in 

 connection with the Royal Agricultural Society's Farm Prize 

 Competition of 1911 are not likely readily to forget their 

 enjoyable tour. The first visit was paid in November, 1910, 

 commencing with the district round about Norwich, and all 

 enjoyed the experience of the exhilarating bracing air, the 

 beautiful country with its dotted carpeting of old gold 

 bi'acken and woodlands strewn with fallen leaves, over which 

 the pheasants scurried in their hundreds, the while one 

 motored along the pretty roads. The second visit was paid 

 in February, and the third and last at the end of the month 

 of May and beginning of June, on which occasion we were 

 treated to the beautiful colouring of the red and white 

 trifolium, delicately tinted sainfoin, and here and there a 

 glorious blaze of red poppies, which gave the agricultural 

 mind food for reflection on the necessity for the careful and 

 constant cultivation with which the East Anglian farmer is 

 confronted. 



From an agricultural point of view, perhaps the most 

 striking features were the iai'ge fields of turnips, which are 

 here to be seen at their best, the numerous stacks of corn 

 built out in the fields, the hedges growing on high-built banks, 

 and the sight of horses working in the fields late into the 

 afternoon, int»fact during the month of February right into 

 the dusk of evening. One field of swedes 130 acres in extent, 

 all singled and set out on perfectly clean land, made a splendid 



