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Report on the Dairy and Stock-Farm 
Newhouse's farm, all these being in the same class ; the 
excellent management of Mr. Parton, at Chorlton, which received 
the Second Prize in his class, where good stock and good dairy 
management and general excellence of crops well deserved the 
highest commendation we could give ; the capital herd of cows 
and general good management of Mr. J. Fowler, who received 
the Second Prize in the same class with Mr. Hothersall ; the 
excellent stock and cropping too on Mr. Lowe's farm near Malpas, 
who came third in that very remarkable class — the stock on all 
of these being maintained more by purchase than by home- 
breeding : — All these deserve a record ; and still more does the 
impression made on us in all these cases of the hearty cordiality 
with which the Judges were in every case received ; and the 
admirable character for energy, good feeling, intelligence, and 
enterprise of all whose farms we visited. With these preliminary 
remarks we proceed to describe the prize farms particularly, the 
others more generally. 
Class 3 included Dairy Farms over 100 acres in extent. 
There were 7 entries in this class, and the awards have been 
already announced. The First Prize was awarded to Mr. John 
Lea's farm, Stapleford Hall, near Tarvin, to which a similar 
place was given in the farm competition at Liverpool in 1877. 
This farm of 288 acres, 104 being arable, lies in the parish of 
Tarvin, about six miles east of Chester, and is the property 
of the Rev. Canon F. Hay hurst, of Davenham Rectory, North- 
wich. It lies partly on the marl of the new red sandstone and 
partly on the gravel-beds covering the same ; and the soil varies 
accordingly between a light, sometimes gravelly, and a heavy 
loam. The very substantial and excellent farmhouse has more 
than two acres of garden-ground attached to it, and it adjoins 
the homestead, which is arranged in the usual form of a square, 
as represented in the annexed engraving, which was used in this 
Journal seven years ago and may be reproduced now. It will be 
understood that the reader looking .at it is facing the south, that 
the central square building, represented as including a shed and 
yard, which it was then proposed to be erected, has not been 
provided, but that the square is only a walled uncovered inclosure 
for manure. It must also be understood that the land falls 
towards the south, and that some deep shedding with yards has 
been added to the old premises on the southern side of the 
present square ; also that on the north side are three large Dutch 
barns, two of which have been erected at the tenant's cost ; and 
that on low-lying ground on the east side is an inclosure on 
which potatoes and other green-crops are pitted. The whole 
