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The stock on the farm consisted of : — 



4 milk cows (purchased). 

 10 young beasts for feeding (bred on the farm). 



4 horses (3 purchased, 1 home bred). 

 12 pigs (bred on the farm). 

 46 feeding hoggs (purchased as lambs, at 21a'. each). 



In winter, the cattle receive roots, meal, cake, and straw, 

 and in siimmer, cake. In winter, the horses receive rolled oats 

 and clover hay. 



Carrots are dug and cleaned, piece-work, at a cost of 11. 6s. 

 per acre. Labom" costs 60^. a year, independent of Mr. Bell's 

 personal labour. Meal and cake amount to nearly 70/. a year, 

 besides which about 40 quarters of oats and other corn grown 

 on the farm are consumed. 



Mr. Bell purchases over 100 tons of horse and cow manure 

 each year, as well as nearly 50?. worth of artificial manures. 



This is as well-managed a small farm as could possibly be 

 found. Stock of good quality, farm-house and buildings tidy, 

 land in good heart, and not a bit of dirt to be found anywhere. 

 The judges had no hesitation in awarding the first prize to 

 Mr. Bell. 



Second Peize Farm in Class III. 

 Occupied hy Messrs. T. & W. Hunter, Coivside, Settle. 



This holding is divided into three farms, one at Darnbrook, 

 Malham Moor, which consists of 1,100 acres pasture, and 1,880 

 acres fell : one at Cowside, which consists of 300 acres, half of 

 which is owned by Messrs. T. & W. Hunter, and the other half 

 by the Exors. of W. Hunter ; and one at Winskill, which 

 consists of 458 acres of rough enclosures and fell. 



The farm at Darnbrook is held on a yearly tenancy under 

 Mr. W. Morrison, of Malham Tarn, Longcliffe, Settle, and the 

 one at Winskill on a yearly tenancy under Colonel Dawson, of 

 Harlington Hall, Skipton. There is no arable land on the 

 holding, and none of the ground has been ploughed for the 

 last fifty years. The farms are from two to nine miles from 

 Settle station, and are at an altitude of from 800 to 2,000 feet 

 above the sea-level. 



In 1912, hay was taken from 180 acres, and the remainder 

 is permanent pasture and fell land. 



The grass land for hay receives farmyard manure twice 

 in three years. Half of the land for hay, which does not 

 receive farmyard manure, is covered with basic slag, and where 

 the ground is very dry, the slag is mixed with an equal weight 

 of kainit ; the other half is covered with lime, which the 

 competitors find answers best. 



