46 THE EQUIPMENT OF THE FARM. 



(6) A North Lincolnshire Farm. There are 216 acres 

 arable, and 87 acres pasture. 



The crops this year, 1883, included : wheat, 36 acres, 

 {14 acres less than usual) : barley, 57 acres ; oats, 27 

 acres ; beans, 6 acres ; tares, 6 acres ; potatoes, 2 acres ; 

 mangels, and swedes, 10 acres ; cabbages, 1 acre ; turnips, 

 27 acres : clover, 44 acres. 



The live stock include 8 cart horses, 21 cows and heifers 

 with calves ; 24 calves ; 7 heifers in calf, (2 J years old) ; 

 12 heifers (1-J do.) ; Shorthorn bull, 140 breeding ewes ; 

 145 lambs ; 30 sold fat in May and June ; 45 shearling 

 gimmers ; 2 rams ; and 30 pigs of all ages. 



The implements include : 3 waggons, 2 and 3 horse ; 3 

 Scotch carts ; 1 corn drill ; 1 turnip drill ; 1 reaping 

 machine ; 1 hay rake, (for one horse) ; 4 ploughs ; 1 ridge 

 plough ; harrows of various sizes, (strong and light) ; 1 

 patent drag harrow; 1 duck- foot harrow; 1 Cambridge 

 roll ; 1 light flat roll ; and sundry small and unimportant 

 tools. 



(7) A Gloucestershire Farm of 490 acres ; 370 pasture, 

 120 arable : 30 acres of the arable is strong clay, the 

 remainder good deep loam. The pasture land is much 

 the same, produces large crops of grass, and keeps a large 

 stock of cattle and sheep, as under (Aug. 23, 1883) : 



The cattle include 30 dairy cows, 10 two-year old 

 heifers (to calve next spring); 41 yearling heifers; 9 

 yearling steers ; 40 fatting heifers and oxen ; 69 calves 

 weaned in the winter and spring ; 1 bull. 



The stock include 220 breeding ewes, 156 fatting 

 sheep ; 20 rams for use and sale ; 262 ewe, wether and 

 ram lambs ; 10 working horses, and 3 colts. And of 

 pigs, 7 breeding sows ; 18 young pigs. 



