240 WESTMORLAND AGRICULTURE. 1800— 1900 



a further ;fioo was contributed towards capital expenditure in 1899, 

 when a complete cheese dairy was added. The Cumberland County 

 Council bought the farm, in 1899, for £7,000, and repaid the Westmor- 

 land capital expenditure by annual sums of £50, the rights being 

 reserved to the Westmorland County Council to send pupUs as 

 before. 



The farm consists of 114 acres, three-fourths of which is grass, 

 together with good house and buildings — the house affording accom- 

 modation for the manager and his wife, trained dairy teacher, and 

 twelve resident pupils. 



The farm is managed by a committee of seven governors, five 

 of whom are appointed by the Cumberland and two by the West- 

 morland County Council — the representatives of the latter authority 

 at first being F. Punchard and A. Dobson, the former being elected 

 chairman of the governors, with C. Courtney Hodgson, of Carlisle, as 

 secretary. 



The instruction provided for female pupils from March to October 

 was at first four courses of six weeks each, but owing to lack of pupils 

 in the summer it was changed to three courses of eight weeks each, 

 instruction being given during each course in the composition of milk, 

 butter, cheese, skim-milk, butter-milk, and whey ; the feeding and 

 management of dairy cows and calves, secretion of milk, and influences 

 which affect the quantity and quality of milk ; the feeding values of 

 foodstuffs, rations and feeding values of skim-milk, butter-milk and 

 whey ; milking, milk registering, cream separation, and management ; 

 butter, cheese, and soft cheese making ; management and rearing of 

 poultry and farm book-keeping. Their time-table being : — 



6-30 a.m. Milking, separating milk, calf and poultry feeding. 



8 a.m. Breakfast, make beds. 



9 a.m. to 12-30 p.m. Practical dairy work. 

 12-30 p.m. Dinner. 



2 to 3-30 p.m. Work in dairy and calf feeding. 1 Half holiday on 



3-30 to 4-30 p.m. Lessons in lecture-room. ) Saturday. 



4-30 p.m. Tea. 



6 p.m. Milking, separating, calf and poultry feeding. 



7-30 to 8-30 p.m. Private study and preparation. 



8-30 p.m. Supper. 



10 p.m. Bed-bell. Lights out 10-30 p.m. 



