236 Farm Prize Competition, 1912. 



Cows each i-eceive daily 3 to 4 bushels turnips, 4 lb. cotton- 

 cake, about 2 lb. compound meal, 1 lb. wheat-meal, and chopped 

 oat-straw. Cows are kept for butter and milk, which depart- 

 ment is managed by Mrs. Beech and her daughter. Spare 

 milk is used in bringing up calves. About 30 lb. of butter are 

 made per week. In summer cows receive grass and 4 to 5 lb. 

 cotton-cake. The calves have new milk till a month old, then 

 are gradually put on to separated milk and Bibby's cream 

 equivalent, with a little hay and compound cake. 



Feeding bullocks receive 7 to 10 lb. turnips, cotton-cake, 

 maize-meal, compound meal, and wheat-meal all mixed 

 together ; also chopped oat-straw. Bullocks are agisted in 

 summer. 



There are seventy sheep (49 bred and 21 purchased), 

 composed of 42 hoggs and 2 cast-ewes on turnips, and twenty- 

 four ewes and one ram on the grass. The ewes and lambs are 

 on seeds in summer, and have a little cake. The lambs that 

 get fat are immediately sold, and the remainder are put on the 

 turnips and receive about \ lb. of cotton-cake and ^ lb. 

 Thorley's cake each per day, along with chopped hay. 



Thei'e are twelve pigs — large White and large Essex cross. 

 The fat pigs receive wheat-maize and Bibby's pig meal in such 

 quantities as they can consume without waste, the store pigs 

 receiving potatoes and a little meal. The pigs are all bred on 

 the farm, and sold at a profit as early as possible. 



There are about 200 head of poultry of mixed breeds, the 

 produce from which forms a considerable item b}' sales of 

 chickens and eggs, for both of which they have good markets 

 at hand. 



Manures cost 50Z. per annum and purchased foods average 

 180Z. All the straw, hay, turnips, and mangolds are consumed 

 on the farm and a considerable portion of the corn. The whole 

 of the work is done by Mr. Beech and his three sons. The 

 only out-going expenditure on labour is for threshing, and such 

 work amounts to about 10^. per annum. 



The tenant has effected several improvements on the farm, 

 including the planting of young fruit trees, fixitig a horse- 

 wheel with shafting, &c., a chopper and mills, and has been to 

 the expense of erecting a Dutch barn 80 ft. long by 20 ft. wide. 

 A considerable length of rough high hedge has been cut 

 down and other hedges on the farm have been well layered. 

 The roads, fences, gates, and buildings are well maintained 

 and the farm is well cultivated and excellently worked. 



The interesting tables which follow have been kindly 

 provided by Mr. R. H. Rew, of the Board of Agriculture and 

 Fisheries. 



