24:6 Farm Prize Competition, 1912. 



two milk horses ; thirty milk cows (two bred on the farm) ; 

 one Shorthorn bull (bought) ; seven in-calf heifers (all home 

 bred) ; and nine calves (bred on the farm). 



Ninety-six pigs (all bred on the farm but three). 



Seventy-one pure-bred Leicester sheep, and two Leicester 

 rams (all home bred, except the rams) ; 150 head of home bred 

 poultry. 



The milk cows when in full milk receive 1 cwt. cut swedes 

 with oat-chaff, and .3 lb. pea-meal mixed up together, and fed 

 twice a day, together with 7 lb. V)est Egyptian cotton cake, and 

 as much meadow hay as they will eat. In summer, the cows 

 go out to grass, and have 4 lb. Bombay cotton cake with 

 meadow hay at milking times. 



The yearlings receive 4 lb. cotton cake, turnips, and straw. 



The calves get all the milk that can be spared, until they 

 are a month or six weeks old, then they receive calf meals, 

 linseed cake, hay, and swedes. 



The working horses have a stone of oats, and all the clover 

 hay they will eat. 



The milking cows looked very nice deep-milking sorts, and 

 the shippons and dairy were kept in a very clean and airy 

 condition. The pigs and sheep were all in good condition, 

 and looked like going on well. 



There is no piece-work done on the farm. Labour here 

 costs between 34s. and 35s. per acre, purchased foods just over 

 480^. per annum (besides home-grown oats, barley, and wheat, 

 to the approximate value of just over 180^.), and artificial 

 manures nearly 40Z. 



The farm buildings are compact, and in a good state of 

 repair. The land is in very good heart, and the w^alls are all 

 in excellent order. The farm is very well suited for the 

 purpose of milk producing, and is carefully managed by 

 Mr. Green. 



Second Prize Farm in Class V. 



Occupied hy Mr. W. Asquith, Womersley Grove, near 



Pontefract. 



This holding consists of 24| acres arable and 23 acres grass 

 and is held on a yearly tenancy under the Rev. L. H. Blakeston, 

 of Womersley, Pontefract. It is situated about a mile from 

 Womersley station. 



The soil and subsoil vary considerably, especially for such a 

 small holding, the subsoil being sand in some fields and blue 

 clay in others. 



The arable land is cropped on the West Riding four-course 

 system as follows : — Turnips or mangolds, barley, clover, wheat 

 or oats. 



