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of pulped turnips, split peas, and dried grains. The lambs are 

 sold for fat, also the ewes, and a new flock is purchased each year. 



Labour here costs about 30s. per acre, and purchased foods 

 just over 450Z. per annum, besides home-grown produce of an 

 approximate value of ISO?., made up as follows : — 40 tons of 

 hay at 31., 1201. ; and 120 tons of mangolds and turnips at 10s., 

 60^. No artificial manures are bought. 



Mr. Green has been a tenant of the farm for twelve years, 

 and his father had it before him for thirty years. He has 

 built a new hall to his farm-house at his own expense, and 

 done a lot of draining on the side of the river which borders 

 several of his fields. 



This farm is run in a very business-like manner indeed. 

 The stock are all well bought, carefully attended to, and sold 

 to good advantage. The farm-buildings are in excellent order, 

 and well looked after. Hedges well trimmed. Pastures full 

 of grand herbage, showing what an amount of cake has been 

 given to the stock, as they have not had a dressing, as before 

 stated, for fifteen years. 



First Prize Farm in Class V. 

 Occupied hy Mr. John Bell, Hagg Lane, Dunning ton, York. 



This farm is held on a yearly tenancy under Mr. J. H. 

 Richardson, of Westfield, Acomb, York, and consists of 39 acres 

 arable, and 10 acres grass. 



The soil is very light, having a subsoil of sand. 



The arable land is cropped on the following five course 

 system : — turnips, barley or oats, seeds, potatoes, wheat, and the 

 1912 cropping was as follows : — Turnips, 4 acres ; potatoes, 

 9 acres ; seeds, 9^ acres (8 acres being clover, and 1^ acres 

 rye-grass) ; wheat, 1^ acres ; mangolds, 2 acres ; carrots, 1 acre ; 

 oats, 8 acres ; barley, 4 acres. 



Mr. Bell does not do any catch-cropping, and as he is short 

 of grass land, he buys what hay he requires at an average cost 

 of bl. per annum. 



His pasture land receives what farmyard manure he can 

 spare. The following quantities of artificial manure and farm- 

 yard manure are used for the different crops : — Turnips, 10 tons 

 farmyard maniire, and 6 cwt. artificial manure per acre ; 

 potatoes, 23 tons farmyard manure, and 7 cwt. artificial manure 

 per acre ; clover, 4 cwt. kainit, and 4 stone nitrate of soda per 

 acre : ryegrass, none ; wheat, 3 cwt. artificial manure per acre ; 

 mangolds, 15 tons farmyard manure, and 8 cwt. artificial 

 manure per acre ; carrots, 10 tons farmyard manure, and 

 5 cwt. artificial manure per acre ; oats, small quantity artificial 

 manure ; barley, none. 



