232 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



&c. What is called the Shaw farm consists of eight hundred 

 acres in Windsor Park, of which one hundred and twelve acres 

 are arable. Six pairs of stout farm horses are kept to do the work, 

 and about thirty men are employed constantly, and extra hands 

 in haying and harvesting. The hours for work are from six 

 o'clock to eleven, and from twelve to five. The horses are wholly 

 Clydesdales. The Prince had frequently been an exhibitor of 

 Clydesdales, and a successful competitor at the agricultural 

 shows. 



The manure used is that produced there. The whole is, of 

 course, under high cultivation. The yield of mangel wurzel is 

 commonly about forty tons per acre. As many as sixty tons per 

 acre have been obtained. The wheat is put up in neatly-built 

 round stacks in the yard, close by the shed which contains the 

 steam-engine, and the roots are to go into a shed also close at 

 hand, to be cut up by the same power. 



The buildings are exceedingly well arranged upon a square 

 plot of ground, the sides north and south, and east and west, 

 respectively. There are two rows of sheds or barns along the 

 two sides of the square, running north and south. In the row 

 of buildings on the east side, besides wagon-sheds at the end, 

 there is a lodging-house with a school-room in the middle. 

 There are also open sheds with boxes for feeding farm horses 

 on the same side. 



The row on the western side includes a carpenter's shop well 

 stocked with tools, threshing barn and gr-anaries, the house for 

 steam-engine and boiler, a floor for mixing chaff and pul[)ed 

 roots, piggeries ranged around three sides of a square, with tank 

 for fermenting food, boiler and feeding troughs in the middle. 

 On the east and west sides of the square, and between these two 

 north and south lines are three rows of buildings with walks 

 between them. The first row on the north includes the house of 

 the foreman, a stable and poultry-house, blacksmith's shop, &c. 



Another row contains boxes and feeding stalls facing south, 

 including a largo root-house, with a root-cutter worked by a 

 shaft from a one-horse steam-engine, by steam brought under 

 ground from the main stcam-boilor in the threshing-room. A 

 third row cuntuins the shecp-fceding stalls. The shcoj) sheds are 

 full in winter. The last winter they contained among otiiers one 

 hnn(hc(l and filly Cheviot WL'thers kept in pens nine feuts(iuare, 



