Farm Prize Competition, 1912. 247 



The following was the acreage of the various crops : — 

 Turnips, 4 acres ; mangolds, 2 acres ; barley, 6 acres ; red clover 

 and rye-grass, 6 acres ; wheat, 6^ acres. 



The grass land intended for hay receives farmyard manure 

 and basic slag, and the pasture land basic slag. 



Turnips and mangolds receive 15 tons farmyard manure and 

 5 cwt. hen and pigeon manure per acre. 



r' The clover ley receives 20 tons farmyard manvire for wheat. 

 "• The summer fallow after red clover receives 5 tons farmyard 

 manure per acre for wheat. 



The stock consisted of : — 



Sixteen cattle, made up as follows : — four milk cows (home 

 bred), six heifers and one steer, one year old and above (five 

 bred and two purchased), five heifer calves (three bred and two 

 purchased). 



Twenty pigs — three sows (two bred and one purchased), 

 two gilts (bred), one boar (purchased), and fourteen small pigs 

 (bred). 



Two work horses (one bred and one purchased) and one 

 cart filly rising two year old (bred). 



The horses in winter receive chopped straw, meal and 

 clover ; and chopped straw, meal and grass in summer. The 

 milk cows have chop meal and turnips twice a day, and cake 

 at noon with as much hay as they can eat. The young cattle 

 get turnips and straw, and the calves milk with a few turnips, 

 and a little meal, hay and cake. 



Labour here amounts to between 12s. and 13s. per acre, 

 Mr. Asquith doing most of the work himself. There is no 

 piece work done on the farm. Purchased foods cost nearly 

 70^.. per annum. 



^This is a very creditable small holding and Mr. Asquith 

 works very hard on it and makes the most of a not very 

 favourable farm. Everything is clean and tidy and the land is 

 in good heart. 



Jambs Bainbridgb. 



Walton House, 



Warrington. 



We subscribe to the foregoing Report- 



George Harrison. 

 G. G. Rea. 



