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fit for a respectable labourer to live in with decency. Labouring 
under such disadvantages, Mr. Day's management is much to be 
praised. 
He keeps 45 dairy cows, 2 bulls, 7 yearling heifers, and 12 
calves. His heifers calve at two years old, and his cast cows 
are sold in December. 
Four horses are kept on the farm, and from 130 to 150 pigs 
are fattened yearly ; these are sold when weighing from 160 lbs. 
to 200 lbs. each. Mr. Day purchases and consumes on his farm 
9 or 10 tons of oilcake annually, and about 250 qrs. of corn. 
He also uses from ten to fifteen pounds' worth of lime yearly for 
manure. 
Six men and boys work on the farm at wages varying from 
12a-. to 14s. per week ; the men being allowed two (quarts of cider 
and the boys one quart per day. 
Mr. Day cuts from 60 to 70 acres of grass for hay every year, 
about 40 acres of which are top-dressed. About 6 acres of the 
farm are planted with fruit-trees, from which Mr. Day sells from 
25 to 30 hogsheads of cider annually. 
The five farms competing in Class 4 have many points of 
merit in common with the larger dairy farms, and the prize- 
takers in both classes have about equally good qualities. The 
management of the two to whom we have awarded the First 
Prizes goes very far to prove that land free from weeds, general 
neatness shown in the state of premises, roads, and fences, 
unusually large returns per acre from the land, and general 
management with a view to profit, are phrases representing facts 
very closely allied to each other. 
These farms are models of good and profitable management, 
and as such are worthy of imitation. 
The active intelligence shown by this and the preceding class 
of occupiers, and the absence of prejudice as to any particular 
mode of manufacturing their produce, seem to us the great 
secret of their success. These qualities have probably been 
acquired by mixing more with the mercantile world than ordi- 
nary corn-growing farmers usually do. 
In concluding our Report, we think it well to note that, with 
a trifling exception, not one of the eighteen tenants whose farms 
we visited is in a position to avail himself of a single clause of 
the Agricultural Holdings Act. In further reference to the various 
farms we saw, we have much pleasure in remarking that the rela- 
tions between the owners and the occupiers, and the latter and the 
labourers, seem to be uniformly good. The large number of dairy 
farmers in this district, who of necessity spend many working 
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