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8o pure Leicester ewes to lamb. 

 145 Border Leicester ewes to lamb. 

 403 hoggets. 

 8 aged rams. 



636 sheep. 



Mr. Teasdale Hutchinson is an eminent agriculturist. He is 

 known as an excellent and accredited judge of stock and a breeder 

 of pedigree animals, so that the quality of the animals he maintains 

 is beyond question. The fact that he obtained the first place in 

 a keen competition, renders it unnecessary to expatiate upon the 

 cleanliness and good condition of his farm. He owned, for example, 

 one game cock ' for which it is said he refused 1000. ' He had 

 taken 9000 in prizes for cattle, sheep, and horses at the time of 

 the inspections of his farm, and the value of his stock must have 

 amounted to many thousands of pounds. He sells ewes at 20 gs. 

 (530 francs) each, and had just given 94 guineas (2490 francs) for 

 a Border Leicester ram. 



The capital invested in his holding must be extremely large, and 

 we do not venture to assess it. Particulars as to his cake bill and his 

 crops are not supplied in the report, but they are scarcely needed. 

 The entire effect must be pleasing to a visitor, for the buildings 

 are praised as excellent, and the engines, threshing machine, chaff- 

 cutters, pulpers, mills, cake-breaker, hoists, saw-table, and grindstones 

 are all worked by steam, and * make up a list more for a factory 

 than for a farm. ' ' The waste steam is not lost, but is led by a 

 pipe, and used to cook some of the food for the stock. More 

 expensive buildings may be seen, but for completeness and usefulness 

 nothing better could be wanted. ' When we consider the value of 

 the herd of fifty Shorthorns, all entered or eligible for the herd 

 book, the value of the horses, the sheep, and the poultry, this 

 farm well diserves to stand at the head of a list representing 

 intensive cultivation. It bears out what was stated earlier, that 

 this particular class of high farming is inseparable from high-class 

 live stock, and that good stock and plenty ot it is still the backbone 

 of profitable farming. 



Lastly, and in proof of the excellence of Mr. Hutchinson's 

 cultivation, the enormous size of the swedes arrested the attention 

 of the judges. Mr. Hutchinson mildly suggested 50 tons per acre 

 as the yield, and on weighing 100 roots they were found to 



