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rest, cows, calves, and stirks, wintered for next season's 

 grass. They generally also feed during summer in the courts 

 twelve to twenty cattle, and graze about fifty head ; generally 

 buying in some in April and June for grazing, and in 

 October for wintering. Of sheep a small flock of breeding 

 ewes is kept thirty to forty half-bred ewes for early 

 lambs, and forty black-faced ewes. The early lambs get 

 young grass or clover, and a liberal allowance of 

 cake; lambs and mothers generally all away by August 

 1. Two hundred and fifty cross-bred lambs are fed 

 during winter, and and about 100 hoggs are fed in 

 summer. Few pigs are kept ; only as many as are needed 

 for the house. Two sows are kept to supply pigs for the 

 servants. 



The following list of implements will show those in use 

 on this farm : Four self-delivery and manual Bisset's 

 combined reapers and mowers with rakes attached, one 

 mower, two American tilting hay rakes, two horse rakes, 

 ten ploughs, one double-furrow plough, five drill ploughs 

 some of them fitted with extra shares for lifting potatoes), 

 four Tennant's grubbers, one 4-horse grubber, one 

 Norwegian harrow, five drill grubbers, eleven iron har- 

 rows, four sets of zigzag harrows, four sets of toothed 

 harrows, one set of chain harrows, one circular harrow, 

 four drill harrows, one patent double drill harrow ; three 

 wooden rollers, three stone rollers, two cast metal 

 rollers, two turnip barrows, twelve tilt carts, eight corn 

 carts, two wood carts, one water barrel, one cake crusher, 

 one corn bruiser : ten ladders, barn utensils, potato 

 barrows and riddles, sheep troughs, nets, hurdles, &c., 

 harness and stable implements, spades, shovels, and forks ; 

 also potato-digger and winnowing machine, 



