238 Farm Prize Competition, 1912. 



The Judges and the writei' desire to return thanks to the 

 competitors for the kindness with which they were received. 



William H. Hogg. 



Board of Agriculture for Scotland, 



St. Andrew's Square, Edinburgh. 



We subscribe to the foregoing Report : — 



Henry Giles. 

 Henry Hawking. 



REPORT OF JUDGES IN CLASSES III.. IV. AND V. 



First Prize Farm in Class III. 

 Occupied by Mr. H. Atkinson, Yafforth Lodge, Northallerton. 



This farm is situated about two miles from Northallerton. 

 It is held on a yearly tenancy under the Executors of 

 the late Colonel Trafford Rawson, of Roche Court, Salisbury, 

 and consists of 221 acres arable and 283 acres grass. The 

 holding is carried on principally as a stock farm. 



The soil diifers from a good loam to a stiff clay, the subsoil 

 being of various kinds. 



The holding is divided into two farms, one called Yafforth 

 Lodge at which Mr. Atkinson lives, which consists of 171 acres 

 arable and 181 grass, and the other called Yafforth Moor Farm, 

 which consists of 50 acres arable and 102 acres grass. The 

 arable land at Yafforth Lodge is cropped on a five-course 

 system, namely, seeds, potatoes, oats or wheat, swedes, mangolds 

 or cabbage, barley, and the arable land at Yafforth Moor Farm 

 on the ordinary four-course system. There is practically no 

 catch cropping in the district. In 1912 the cropping on the 

 two farms taken as a whole was as follows : — Potatoes, 40 acres ; 

 barley, 42 acres ; wheat, 15 acres ; oats, 30 acres ; clover, 34 

 acres ; swedes, 37 acres ; mangolds, 12 acres ; cabbage, 2 acres ; 

 beans, 7 acres ; and tares, 2 acres. The following quantities 

 of artificial manures and farmyard manure are used for the 

 different crops : Potatoes — 8 tons farmyard manure, 1 cwt. 

 sulphate of ammonia, 1 cwt. sulphate of potash, 2 cwt. super- 

 phosphate. i?ar/e?/— ^turnips and cake eaten on average yield 

 about 5^ quarters. Wheat — 8 tons farmyard manure per 

 acre. Square-head Master is chiefly grown and yields about 

 5 quarters. Mangolds — 8 tons farmyard manure, 4 cwt. salt, 

 5 cwt. superphosphate, 2 cwt. kainit, 1^ cwt. nitrate of soda 

 per acre. Cabbage — 12 tons farmyard manure, 2 cwt. nitrate 

 of soda, 4 cwt. superphosphate per acre. Sivedes — 6 tons 



