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extra cost thereby incurred would be amply repaid, and with 
good interest, in each individual case, while the improyement 
in the cattle of the district would be a national benefit. 
The third and last survey wzis confined to a few farms only, 
and was made simply to clear up some points afiecting our deci- 
sions, upon which we felt we required some further knowledge : 
it was made immediately before the Show, to enable us to 
deliver our awards in time for the General Meeting of the 
Society at Bristol, on Thursday, the 11th of July, and the results 
will be found in the following Report. 
Class 1. — Fiest Prize. 
North Cemey, Perrofs Brook, and Scruhditch Farms, in the 
County of Gloucester. — These farms are occupied by Mr. Thomas 
Redman Hulbert ; the two former are rented of Earl Bathurst, 
under a yearly tenancy, and the latter of Mr. Croome, under 
a lease, five years of which are unexpired. They are situated 
on and at the foot of the Cotswold Hills, about 4 miles from 
Cirencester. 
Earl Bathurst's farms consist, according to Mr. Hulbert's 
entry, of — 
831 3 39 Arable land. 
192 2 33 Pasture. 
Mr. Croome's, of 185 1 IG Arable land. 
58 1 31 Pasture. 
Total 1268 1 39 
The soil is described by Mr. Hulbert, in his certificate, as 
light, and the subsoil as stone-brash. 
There are ten cottages hired with the farms, and two under a 
different hiring. 
The farmhouse at North Cemey is prettily situated ; the farm- 
buildings are an unconnected lot, some on each farm, and are of 
a very ordinary type. The tenant has a water-mill on the farm, 
which he uses for grinding, crushing, and winnowing com, -and 
other purposes. The late Earl Bathurst, about a year ago, at 
his own cost, affixed a set of pumps to force water from a well 
close to the wheel, through 2^in. iron pipes, a distance of about 
2 miles, to a tank holding 70<X) gallons, at an elevation of about 
240 feet above the level of the valley, and thence supplying other 
smaller tanks by gravitation, so that the buildings and every 
field on the farm can have a proper supply. The water from 
this source is also supplied to the cottages. 
Considering the elevated position of the greater part of 
