Report on the Farm-Prize Campetition, 1878. 15 
by Mr. Albert James Steeds under a yearly tenancy. It contains, 
according to Mr. Steeds' entry, — 
A. R. p. 
54 3 25 Arable land. 
168 0 1 Pasture land. 
Total 222 3 26 
Fig. 5. — Bed House Farm, Somerset. ^o**"^ 
Mr. Steeds, in his certificate of entry, describes the soil as 
light and the subsoil as stone-brash. The farm is situated 
under the Mendip Hills. The rocky subsoil is pretty close to 
the surface over a great portion of this farm, which has been 
held by the present tenant and his uncle for many years. The 
house and buildings are certainly not of an attractive character, 
and are not sufficiently capacious for a farm managed as this is, 
and evidently has been for a very long period. The fields are di- 
vided by earth-banks and hedges planted thereon, the banks being 
