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is not profitab!e to winter dairying, and the erection of this excellent 

 accomodation for the animals is to supply milk for the petit dairy 

 factory erected in a portion of the farm buildings, and to be worked 

 by water power. No waste of capital has been here sunk in 

 buildings , while the management will be of the simplest description, 

 Mr. Wilson being his own agent. Ensilage forms a considerable 

 portion of the winter keep of the cattle, chiefly however built 

 in stack form and compressed by means of the Wilson Furcated 

 Hydraulic Jacks, an invention of the owner, who is credited 

 with the "liigmaden" churns, one of which is in use in the 

 dairy, but p.obably more valuable to the agriculturist than either 

 is the " Stercoline," of which Mr. Wilson has acquiied the sole 

 patent right; it is a chemical compound and absorbant for taking 

 up and fixing the ammonia in liquid manure, and forming a very 

 powerful artificial dressing. A crop of turnips has been grown 

 with it alone this year estimated at fifty tons per acre, and it enables 

 eight acres of land to be covered with one ton of liquid instead 

 of a quarter of an acre with a tank cart. 



Turning our attention more paiticularly to the cattle, although 

 but a small portion of the animals at Rigmaden are " eligible," yet 

 pedigree bulls have long been used on the estate, and the general 

 appearances of the numerous and handsome lot of daiiy cows 

 indicate that the sires must have been animals of individual merit, 

 whatever their pedigree qualifications may have been. In the fiist 

 pasture, Maijoiie, a dark red Mistress Mary, fiom Knowlmere, has 

 a neat feminine appearance with quite the Booth ribs, and Pearl 

 7th, ;her companion, is a thick wealthy heifer. Advancing into 

 the adjoining field, Peony Flower 3rd, and her daughter, came from 

 Edenhall a " twelvemonth " ago, with Eosanna, a good-looking 

 daughter of Baron Oxford 6th 33075, but to Phillipa, of the famous 

 Hecuba tribe, a wonderfully straight nice heifer, our attention is 

 naturally most attracted, and so thought the audience at Killerby, 

 when they compelled Mr. Wilson to pay the highest price, excepting 

 Mr. Hutchinson's Princess Battenberg which brought exactly the 

 same figure, 130gs. of the L8S5 heifers. Pearl Powder does credit 



