Easthurii Farm, near Driffield, Yorlisldrc. 
September, and on turnips at Michaelmas. They arc stocked 
when put to the ram, about the 12th of October, on rape or 
turnips, the tups used being pure Leicesters hired for the season 
of James Hall, Esq., of Scorboro. About 140 ewes, or rather 
more than one-fourth, are annually drafted. About Christmas the 
whole of the sheep are put on swedes, which they stock until 
the hoggs are sold off and the breeding ewes put on grass. 
One man attends to 200 feeding hoggs and cuts for them, the 
sheep being folded with nets. The fleeces average 9 lbs. each 
for hoggs and 7 lbs. each for ewes. Shearing is done at 2s. ^d. 
per day, with meat and two pints of beer in addition. 
Sheep-washing is done by the shepherd in a running stream 
at a cost of 3s. Aid. per 100. The lambs are usually dipped after 
weaning, the old sheep are either salved or hand-watered in the 
autumn, and the lambs are again dressed at the same time at a 
cost of about 25s. per 100, including labour. 
Pigs. 
About 50 pigs are kept on the farm, living on waste materials, 
and, as some are sold, others are bought in to supply their places. 
The function of the pig here as in many other districts is simply 
to utilize what would otherwise be wasted. 
Labour. 
At each homestead is a hind's cottage constructed with 
refei'ence to the system of employing and boarding a certain 
number of lads who are engaged by the year. These lads, of 
whom there are 7 at each farmstead, are hired at Martinmas, 
and are paid from 9Z. to 18Z. each per annum, according to their 
ability, length of service, &c., the average payment being about 
Vol. They live with the hind, who is paid by the occupier of 
the farm 8s. 6c?. per week each for their board. The hinds get 
17s. per week besides a cottage rent free, an allowance of 
potatoes for the household, and sundry perquisites for his wife's 
trouble. 
The hind's cottages are designed specially with a view to 
prevent the hind and his family being inconvenienced by so 
many young men living in the house ; and the annexed plans 
will show how admirably this has been arranged, the portion 
devoted to the hind and his family being almost entirely 
isolated from the living and sleeping rooms appropriated to the 
lads. The " men's kitchen," it will be seen, contains a staircase 
leading to the men's bedroom, which is not accessible from the 
main staircase ; it also contains a copper, and is in direct 
connection with the washhouse and the pantry. 
