324 Farm Prize Competition, 1911. 



Second Prize Farm in Class III. 



Occupied by Mr. A. J. Ghrisfie, of Slys Farm, North Creake, 



Fakenham. 



This farm consists of 220 acres of arable and 25 acres of 

 pasture land, held on a yearly tenancy iinder Earl Spencer, 

 of Althorp House, Northampton. It is a lisrht soil with chalk 

 and marl subsoil and is worked on the following system : — 



Barley, Oats and Wheat 



I 

 Roots 



1 

 Barley and Oats 



I 

 Seeds. 



The seeds are down for one year only and are mown once. 



A few acres of peas are occasionally sown instead of all seeds. 



The seeds mixture consists of 1 peck " Cole Ambrose " 



evergreen rye-grass, 1 peck red clover, white clover and 



trefoil, and sometimes a field of sainfoin. 



The areas under the various crops were : turnips, 40 acres ; 

 mangolds, 6 acres : wheat, 22 acres ; oats, 47 acres ; barley, 

 .52 acres ; seeds, 49 acres ; and pasture 2.5 acres. 



The swede crop is manured with .3 cwt. of superphosphate 

 and 2 cwt. of " manure salts " per acre : the mangold crop with 

 twelve loads of farmyard manure and 1 cwt. of nitrate of soda 

 mixed with 1 cwt. of salt applied after the plants are singled. 

 The mangold crop consisted of "Cole Ambrose" Challenge 

 Globe and " Messrs. Brown's " Yellow Globe, sown at the rate 

 of 8 lb. per acre on ridges 25 in. apart, and singled out at 

 10 in. in the rows. 



No permanent grass is ever mown and considerable 

 quantities of roots are thrown out to the cattle, which also 

 receive cake all the year round. The grass looked very well 

 indeed considering the drought and had no nettles or thistles 

 on it. 



The cattle consisted of six cows, forty feeding beasts 'and 

 twenty-five younsf cattle. There were also 300 hoggets 

 (Suffolks and half-bred), and eight cart-horses, two two-year- 

 olds, four foals, one driving horse and three young unbroken 

 light horses. 



The feeding cattle are fed on as many swedes as they can 

 consume with cake and hay ; the cows receive roots and cake, 

 summer and winter. 



Manures cost 70?. per annum, the labour amounts to 360?. 

 and the cake bill last year was 310Z. 



