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Report on the Dairy and Stock-Farm 
except those that have calved ; in December they get a feeil 
twice daily, and two feeds of cabbage, also roots, tops, «&;c., with 
about 5 lbs. of cake and meal. This is the allowance for thosfr 
that have calved ; the others vary, according to the milk they 
are giving. The cows that are giving no milk get a feed of 
oat-straw twice daily, with about 20 lbs. of turnips in December ; 
after that time, what oat-straw they will eat, until they calve, 
when the food is altered to what I have stated previously." 
The poultry must be named on Mr. Parton's farm. We saw 
34 geese, 25 turkeys, besides about 60 hens. The eggs sold 
fetched 19s. 6rf. in January, 22s. 8f/. in February ; 3/. Is. Qd. in 
March; 4Z. 2s., 5Z. 19s. in April and May: 3/. 17s. in June; 
3/. 10s. in July; 2/. 5s. in August; 11. 19s. in September; 11. lis. 
in October ; 18s. 6c?. in November. The geese averaged about 
30, at lis. each. 
The farm premises are now very complete. One long cow- 
house, 36 feet wide, has three separate cross-gangways, 8 cows 
standing on either side, holding thus 48 cows ; and there are 
ample premises besides for younger cattle for stables, pigstyes, 
bull-houses, «Scc. The implements include, besides the usual 
equipment of tools for field and barn and feeding-house, a 
traction-engine and threshing-machine, which are let out on hire. 
Here is a case where the ability to maintain a large herd of 
cattle is largely due to the arable portion of the farm. There is 
no haymaking off the permanent grass. The whole of the fields 
in permanent grass or meadow are grazed. They have been 
drained, thrown together, in some cases refenced, and, to some 
extent, laid down by the tenant. The liquid manure from the 
cow-houses drains to a ditch, and is thence carried to a low- 
lying portion of one of these fields, which get 5 cwt. of ^bone- 
dust per acre every third year over the whole estate. The 
arable land is cultivated generally on a four-course rotation : 
(1) oats, (2) green crop, (3) wheat and oats, (4) clover. The 
wheat, Mold's Ennobled wheat, was a fine upstanding crop ; 
the oats, chiefly Poland, an early short-strawed variety, were 
a fair crop ; the clover had been first-rate. The green-crop 
division included generally 8 to 11 acres of potatoes, 6 acres of 
Swedish turnips, 3 acres of mangels, and 1 acre of cabbages. 
Cabbages Avere also planted among the potatoes, succeeding the 
early potato-crop, and producing an abundance of useful cow- 
food. 
The herd of cattle — large-framed Shorthorns — were among 
the finest we saw on any of the competing farms. Mr. Parton 
was quite justified in entering them for Lord Vernon's prize 
offered for the best dairy herd, which was won by a com- 
petitor in another class. 
