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sows were running. In the midst of one of the large level grass- 
fields a high thorn fence stands, part of which had been removed,, 
this being left for the useful shelter afforded by it to the stock 
at grass. The premises, arranged as usual round three sides 
of a square, include a long range with seven separate cross- 
gangwajs to every ten cows ; and there are other small 
shippons, other yards and sheds, barn room also, implement 
shed, and admirable accommodation of all kinds. A 3-horse- 
power engine is employed to grind and chaff, and pulp if 
necessary, and thresh. The garden must be mentioned, behind 
the very complete house, as an example of good management. 
The farm well deserves the distinction accorded to it both for 
the character of its dairy produce, the quality of its herd, the 
labour management and good produce of the land, and for the 
domestic example to which we have referred. 
Mr. Robinson's farm, at Lee Green Hall, Church Minshull,. 
was highly commended. It is 250 acres in extent, sloping from 
the public road towards the River Weaver, the house and. 
buildings on the farm being on the upper level, and the land 
lying a compact collection of large fields below it. Most of the 
permanent grass is on your left, and the arable fields on your 
right, as you look from the windows of the capital farm-house, 
which command the whole. A pleasanter home and occupation 
it is hardly possible to imagine. The buildings are arranged, for 
the most part, on three sides of a large working square adjoining 
the house, behind which are the piggeries, not far from the- 
dairy. Of the 250 acres, 176 are pasture; and of the arable- 
there were last year 16 acres in wheat, 22 in oats, in turnips 
mostly swedes, 20i of potatoes, and 37 acres clover and grass in 
rotation — about half of it two years old. Mr. Robinson is 
perfect master of his land ; he can plough up what he pleases;: 
and there are no restrictions on his cultivation. That he can 
lay down as well as break up, we had ample proof. A large 
field of grass-land, which he had lately laid down, carried more 
than a cow per acre all through last summer, and was extra:- 
ordinarily full of clover, and other keep, when we walked over 
it in July. It had been laid down with 12 lbs. of red clover,. 
3 lbs. of alsike, 4 lbs. of trefoil, and 1 bushel of Italian rye- 
grass, per acre — sown with an oat-crop, and grazed with store-^ 
cattle till the following April. It received 10 cwt. of boiled 
bones per acre in March, was once mown for hay that year, and 
subsequently grazed, receiving a half-dressing of manure in the 
second winter, and the cattle pastured on it received 3 lbs. of 
cotton-cake daily, equal to at least 5 cwt. per acre during the 
summer months. The pastures generally are well grazed. A. 
