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The following are the piece-work prices on the farm : — 

 Stone-walling, Is. 3d per yard, 5 ft. 6 in. high ; tile draining, 

 10c?. to Is. per rood ; stone draining, Is. 6d per rood. 



Labour here amounts to 300^. per year. All the servants 

 live in, and have board and lodging in addition. Purchased 

 foods cost about 340?., and artificial manures about 60/. 



The Hunter family have been at Cowside for seventy-six 

 years, Darnbrook seventeen years, and Winskill twelve years. 



The homesteads are all very tidy and in good repair, and 

 many improvements have been made by the competitors during 

 their tenancy. 



Second Prize Farm in Class IV. 



Occupied by Mr. Thomas G. Green, Court Green Farm, 



Cloughton. 



This farm lies a few miles from Scarborough, and about a 

 quarter of a mile fi'om Cloughton station. It is held on 

 a yearly tenancy under Mr. H. E. Donne, of Court Green, 

 Cloughton, and consists of 36 acres arable, and 86 acres grass. 

 The soil is a good, rich loam, with a clay subsoil. 



The arable land is cropped on the following four course 

 system : turnips, barley, clover, oats, and in 1912 the cropping 

 was as follows: — Roots, 10 acres ; barley, 7^ acres; oats, 10 acres ; 

 wheat, 1 acre ; clover, 7^ acres. 



The tenant is responsible for the upkeep of fences, gates, 

 and roads, but not for the buildings or drainage. 



The grass land intended for hay receives farmyard manure 

 and basic slag in alternate years. The graps land intended for 

 pasture receives liquid manure, basic slag, lime, and farmyard 

 manure. The pastures here were some of the best we saw in 

 the competition, and highly suitable for the production of milk, 

 which is Mr. Green's chief source of income. He retails milk 

 in Scarborough at Is. -id. per gallon, besides which, he has 

 several contracts. 



The different crops receive the following quantities of 

 artificial and farmyard manures per acre : — Swedes, 12 tons 

 farmyard manure, and 5 cwt. nitrophosphate ; mangolds, 20 

 tons farmyard manure, and 6 cwt. mangold manure ; cabbage, 

 20 tons farmyard manure, and 2 cwt. nitrate of soda ; barley 

 receives no manure. The clover receives no manure ; the 

 first crop is made into hay, and the second crop is eaten on 

 with lambs, which are trough fed. The clover ley receives 

 10 tons of farmyard manure per acre, and is drilled with oats. 



The stock on the farm consisted of : — 



Three farm horses (all mares), two bred on the farm ; two 

 yearling heavy horses and a foal (all bred on the farm) and 



