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Rejwrt on the Dairy and Stock-Farm 
The reader may strike a balance if he pleases. He will find 
that during the year in question the tenant's profit must have 
been almost incredibly large. The fall in the price of cheese 
and of grain has, of course, greatly reduced his returns this year ; 
but he informed us on our second visit that his earliest make of 
cheese had been sold for 68s. per cwt. It is sold to a co-opera- 
tive store in 'Manchester, and Mr. Lea thus gets very nearly the 
price which the consumer gives. His cheese, which we had the 
opportunity of examining on several occasions, was of fair, but 
not altogether uniform, quality. This was especially perceptible 
on our last visit in July. The variation was attributed to an 
unavoidable interruption of home superintendence at one period. 
The butter which we then examined was admirably made, and 
of excellent quality. The quantity taken varies from ^ a lb. 
to 1 lb. weekly per cow, according to the season of the year. 
In 1884, however, only 1944 lbs. of butter were reported 
from 85 cows. 
The horse labour of the farm is done by six very good farm- 
horses, two of them mares, and there was a very useful colt 
from one of them. The implements included a lurry, four carts, 
one straw-cart, one liquid-manure cart, one milk-cart, two 
wheeled drags, one corn-drill, one double-row turnip-drill, one 
clover-seed drill, one Cambridge-roller, one flat roller, three 
two-horse ploughs, one one-horse plough, two ridging-ploughs, 
one four-furrow seed-coverer, one cultivator, four sets of seed- 
harrows, one set of chain-harrows, one set of drag-harrows, one 
pair of drill-harrows, one horse-hoe, one mowing-machine, one 
reaping-machine, one hay-tedding machine, two horse-rakes. 
We turn now once more to the farm, which lies almost 
entirely on the south side of the premises — with, howevef, two 
outlying pieces, north and south-west, the latter wholly pasture, 
in three fields about 27 acres in all, the former wholly arable, in 
two fields of 11 and 17 acres respectively. The land, as seen 
in April, was clean and in good order ; the wheat-plant good, the 
oats coming through, potato-planting finished, and work generally 
forward in preparation for green crop. In July we found a very 
heavy and even crop of oats, Canadian Polands, a very fine crop 
of Scholey's Square-head wheat, and a splendid crop of Webb's 
Kinver Giant wheat. The pastures were all full of food, 
although heavily stocked. A heavy crop of grass was being cut, 
and a good crop of clover-hay had been carried. Seven acres of 
swedes were already nearly covering the ground — a perfectly 
even plant ; and the potatoes (Magnums) were very forward — a 
clean, uniform, and most promising crop. The rotation followed 
on the arable land is (1) oats ; (2) green crop, viz., potatoes and 
swedes ; (3) wheat : (4) oats ; and (5) clover. We may take the 
