Report on the Farm-Prize Competition, 1878. 
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Mr. Hulbert's occupation, and the fact that he uses steam-power 
largely for the purposes of cultivation, and keeps a large flock 
on the uplands during the 
summer months, this work is 
a great boon to him, as well 
being a permanent im- 
Fig. 1. — Scruhditch Farm, Glouces- 
tershire. 
as 
provement to the estate. 
Mr. Hulbert's labour costs 
him on an average of years 
about 25s. per acre. At pre- 
sent he pays his men 12s. per 
week ; shepherds and carters, 
&c., 14s. to 15s. per week, 
and 40s. extra for harvest. 
Nearly all the labour, how- 
ever, is performed by piece- 
work, under which system he 
finds that he gets his work 
well done, while the men earn 
better wages and are better 
satisfied. A large sum is ex- 
pended annually in food for 
stock, and also for artificial 
manure, principally nitrate of 
soda and superphosphates. 
Cattle. — The cattle on the 
farm at the date of our first 
visit consisted of 12 cows, 4 
bulls, 10 heifers in-calf, 2 
• weaning-calves, and 88 steers 
and fatting beasts. 
Although changes had taken 
place between then and our 
next visit — fat cattle having 
been sold and others pur- 
chased, and calves bred and 
weaned — the stock was represented by about the same number. 
They were, on the whole, a good lot, well done and well 
managed ; there were some pure Shorthorns among them, and 
the rest had good crosses of pure blood. 
Sheep. — The flock of pure Cotswolds numbered in January, 
323 breeding-ewes, 188 ewe tegs, 387 tegs ; and in May, 271 
breeding-ewes with their lambs, 180 ewe tegs, 16 ram tegs, and 
some fatting sheep. The whole were good and wonderfully 
well managed ; and Mr. Hulbert's accounts showed a very 
large return for mutton sold. 
