40 THE EQUIPMENT OF THE FARM. 



20 1 J-year heifers and bullocks ; 2 bulls ; 26 rearing calves, 

 of which 5 are bulls ; 164 sheep and lambs ; 3 waggon 

 mares, two of which are in foal (no foals last year) ; 1 cob ; 

 and 29 nearly fat pigs. 



The implements used are one Howard's pair-horse plough, 

 one Howard's ridging plough, two 1 -horse scarifiers or horse- 

 hoes, one pair-horse cultivator, one set of pair-horse iron 

 harrows, one 3-horse heavy harrow, one heavy 1 -horse 

 roller, one light ditto, one turnip and mangel drill (a corn 

 drill is hired), one chain harrow, one turnip pulper, and 

 one chaffcutter, one horse rake, one haymaker, one com- 

 bined mower and reaper, one liquid-manure cart, three 

 waggons, three carts. The pulper and chaffcutter are 

 driven by horse power, and are worked together by three 

 horses and three men one man feeding the chaffcutter, 

 one man feeding the pulper and mixing the chaff and pulp, 

 and one man driving the horses and throwing in the roots. 



(3) Small Hill Country Farms. Mountbarrow Farm 

 is 190 acres in extent, 1J miles from Ulverston, North 

 Lancashire. The soil is a medium loam, on the limestone 

 formation, dry without draining. During the year 1883 

 there were 65 acres under the plough namely, 25 acres 

 of green crop, comprising 7 acres of potatoes, half an acre 

 of mangel, half an acre of carrots, 2 acres of common 

 turnips, and the rest swedes ; 8 acres of wheat, 9 acres 

 of barley, and 23 acres of oats. The rest were in grass 

 seeds, hay meadows, and pasture. 



The farm is cultivated on the four-course system lea, 

 oats, green crop, wheat or barley with seeds. Potatoes are 

 manured with about 10 tons per acre of farmyard manure. 

 Swedes, mangel, and carrots get about 5 tons of farmyard 



