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Bristol, and to find that they had been honoured by the Judges. 
If the 78 acres of mountain land had been, comparatively 
speaking, as well managed as the remainder of the farm, Mr. 
Keen might have had the Second Prize awarded to him ; as it 
is, we felt much pleasure in asking the Council of the Royal 
Agricultural Society to give him an extra prize for the very large 
amount of merit shown by him in the general management of 
his farm with a view to profit, for the excellence of his cattle 
and sheep, and the great neatness of his roads, fences, and 
premises, and are pleased to record that our request was com- 
plied with. 
Other Farms m Class 3. 
Kamhell Farm, Kingsweston, near Bristol, the property of 
P. VV. S. Miles, Esq., and Mrs. Harford, and occupied by 
Mr. James Pearce, contains — 
72 0 22 Arable land. 
300 3 22 Pasture land. 
Total 373 0 4 
Mr. Pearce, in his certificate of entry, describes the largest 
portion of the farm as heavy, and the subsoil as chiefly clay. 
The farm is situated about 5 miles from Bristol, and the land 
is of good quality. The house and buildings are of a useful 
ordinary type ; on one homestead, formerly in the occupation of 
the proprietor, there is a very excellent and capacious cow-shed, 
and the other buildings there are of an equally good and sub- 
stantial character. 
The farm is held under a yearly tenancy ; the terms of entry 
being feed-value for hay, straw, &c., and allowances for the 
unexhausted value of manures purchased, and of cake fed, during 
the last year. 
About one-half of the farm has been occupied by Mr. Pearce 
for about 25 years, the other half for 10 years. For the last 
7 or 8 years the produce of the cows has been sold in the shape 
of milk, but previous to that cheese was made. Two small 
fixed steam-engines of i-horse power, one at each homestead, 
are used for chaff- cutting, corn-crushing, &c. ^Ir. Pearce cuts 
by machinery all the straw grown on his farm for bedding for 
his cattle, and also from 150 to 200 tons of hay for feeding pur- 
poses annually. In addition to this quantity of hay, INIr. Pearce 
also uses linseed-cake, maize, meal and bran to a rather consider- 
able extent. The milk is delivered to Bristol twice a day, the 
