230 Farm Prize Competition, 1912. 



stock and incidentally for partridges. Both arable and grass 

 land very clean and well cropped. This is a well-managed 

 farm which impressed one as being occupied by a clever and 

 well-guided business man. 



Second Peize Farm in Class I. 



Occupied hy M?\ Chf^stopher Danby Wright, The G^^ange, 



Naffer ton, Driffield. 



This farm consists of 379 acres arable and 40 acres grass land, 

 and is held under yearly tenancy from Mr. A. J. Wyse, Wold 

 House, Nafferton. It has been occupied by Mr. Wright for seven 

 years. It is all wold land with a chalk sub-soil, and is farmed 

 on a five-course system — turnips, oats, seeds, wheat, barley. 

 The cropping for 1912 was as follows : — 82 acres wheat, 

 81 acres barley, 70 acres oats, 70 acres roots, 73 acres 

 seeds ; total 376 acres. All the grass land is grazed, 

 and receives a dressing of about ten tons of farmyard 

 manure per acre every five years, and meantime a dressing 

 of 5 cwt. superphosphate and 2 cwt. sulphate of potash 

 per acre. The root crops are manured with 15 tons farm- 

 yard manure, 3 cwt. superphosphate, and 1^ cwt. dissolved 

 bones, the mangold crop receiving in addition a top dressing 

 of \ cwt. of nitrate of soda mixed with \ cwt. common salt 

 per acre. Oats follow roots fed on the land by sheep and 

 receive no special manuring. The seeds mixture consists of 

 red clover, 6 lb. ; white clover, 6 lb. ; trefoil, 6 lb. ; alsike, 

 6 lb. ; rib grass, 3 lb., or 27 lb. per acre ; and is left down for 

 one or two years. Wheat receives 15 tons per acre of farm- 

 yard manure, which is spread on to the seeds and ploughed in 

 duiing autumn. Barley receives 84 lb. superphosphate and 

 28 lb. nitrate of soda per acre. 



The stock consists of 160 ewes, all home-bred, of the 

 Lincoln and Leicester cross-breed, 240 home-bred lambs, 200 

 cross-bred lambs (purchased), nineteen strong bullocks (bought 

 in to feed), seventeen strong bullocks and heifers (eleven 

 bought and six bred), seventeen two-year-olds (eight bought and 

 nine bred), ten home-bred yearlings, six milk cows (pur- 

 chased), three young home-bred calves, twelve cart-horses 

 (four of which wei*e bred at home), six young horses (two of 

 them home-bred), one trap-horse, one hunting mare, and 

 seventy-four pigs. No cake is used in the summer time 

 except for the milk cows, which receive 6 lb. per day per cow. 

 One cake is given to the score sheep when feeding on the roots 

 in winter, with an addition of \ lb. maize per sheep w^hen 

 February comes in. Bullocks are given 2 bushels of turnips 

 per day, and 11 lb. to 12 lb. of maize germ and grain meal, 

 Young beasts have 1 bushel of turnips and about 4 lb. of maize 



