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few ewes are annually purchased for winter grazing — half-bred 
Cluns — they are lambed in the following spring, and sold as 
soon as saleable thereafter. Thirty ewes and 45 lambs had 
thus been kept during the previous winter. The lambs had 
been sold at 375. each, the wool at lOd. per lb. ; and the 
ewes kept on sheltered low-lying pasture get fat without arti- 
ficial aid. Eighty cows are kept on the farm, 78 had been 
milked during the previous season, of which 21 were three-year- 
old heifers, and 15 two-year-olds. We saw also 19 yearling 
heifers, which had already (July) received the bull. The bull- 
calves are generally kept and fed till worth 45s. a-piece ; and 
some 20 heifer-calves are brought up annually. The pig-stock 
includes 9 or 10 sows, and 50 or 60 pigs are sold every year. 
Lee Green Farm is worked by 5 horses, 2 of them being 
breeding mares. The hand-labour of the farm is done by one 
cowman, two carters, and two labourers ; and of these — two men, 
besides two dairy-women, and one girl and a boy, are boarded 
in the house. The money-wages include 15/. extra payment 
during hay-harvest, 18/. during potato-harvest, and 19/. during 
corn-harvest, and amount in all to 2007. ; and if the cost of 
boarding servants in the house be added, it is probable that the 
whole expenditure on labour is 300/. a year, or 24s. an acre. 
The other outgoings include purchases of food and manure — 
3 tons of linseed-cake, 8 tons of cotton-cake, 200 sacks of bran, 
100 quarters of India corn and meal, and 85 cwt. of lice-meal. 
It should be mentioned also that all the oats grown, some 
20 acres, are consumed upon the farm ; and that 12 quarters out 
of the 64 of wheat produced on 16 acres of land, are also con- 
sumed. The manures purchased cost about 210/. a year, viz. 
180/. in bones, 30 cwt. of guano, and 2 tons of superphosphate. 
Mr. Robinson has also done a great deal during his tenancy for 
the permanent improvement of his farm. He has built a 
feeding-house for pigs. Three cisterns to receive the whey 
from the dairy are provided with a chain-pump. He has 
enlarged the milk-house, made a shippon for 6 cows, carted all 
the material for his new house, and for a block of buildings, 
40 yards long by 8 yards wide ; he has paved 2000 square 
yards at %d. per yard; made a watering-place, carted 200 tons 
of ashes 5 miles for the farmyard and gateways ; eradicated 
8000 yards of old hedges, and planted 3100 yards of new ones, 
quicks being found by the landlord. He has marled several 
fields, and drained 40 acres, and filled up a number of old pits, 
and carted on hundreds of loads of earth and soil to make the 
same into land. He has erected 200 yards of iron fencing, and 
has spent large sums in bone-manure, and other bone-fertilisers ; 
spending, indeed, upwards of 1000/. for manures during the 
