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Report on the Dairy and Stock-Farm 
thing of the kind anywhere to be seen. The premises, which 
have been lately refitted and somewhat extended, now leave 
nothing to be desired — shippons, pigstyes, barns, and renovated 
farm-house, are all now satisfactory. The water supply has been 
Mr. Lea's own arrangement. It is delivered from a considerable 
spring on a lower level by a hydraulic ram, to which, by skil- 
ful management, fall enough was obtained for the purpose 
required. The spring is 170 yards from the premises ; the ram 
is fed by a 2-inch pipe with a 5-foot fall, and delivers through a 
^-inch pipe to buildings 15 feet to 20 feet above its level ; the 
whole costing 83/. The cow-stock here were a remarkably fine 
herd of 50 in milk, and the young stock promise to keep up 
its quality. We nowhere saw calves or yearlings doing better. 
The rent of the farm is 300/. ; tithes, 26Z. 175. 10c?. ; poor's-rate, 
23Z. 17s. lOd. ; school-rate, 16s. ; in all 351Z. lis., or more 
than 2/. 2s. an acre. The labour is done by three men, whose 
wages average 40/. a year, and one dairy-woman at 16/., and 
two boys at 12/. and 8/., who live and are boarded in the house. 
The extra labour includes 30/. at the corn and potato-harvest. 
Taking the cost of board into consideration, the labour account 
altogether probably amounts to 220/., or nearly 30s. per acre. 
The consumption of bought food during the year amounts to 
2^ tons of linseed-cake, 5^ tons of cotton-cake, 36 quarters of 
India meal, 3000 bushels of brewers' grains, in all 193/. ; 9 
quarters of wheat also, and 53 quarters of oats of home 
growth, have been consumed. The manure bill includes 3 
tons of bone-superphosphate, at 10/. 10s., and 9 tons 1 cwt. 
of bones, altogether 68/. a year. The sales include 320 cheeses 
weighing 8 tons 14 cwt., at 68s. to 70s., 602/. 4s. M. ; 630 lbs. 
of butter, at Is. 4c?., equal to about h lb. per cow per week, 
42/. ; 3283 gallons of milk, at l\d. to ~ls.,— 151/. 16s. ; ^29 fat 
pigs, 163/. 6s. 9c/. ; 10 fat cattle had been sold for 181/. 15s. ; 
and 32 calves for 32/. ; and the sales of wheat, potatoes, oats, 
and straw amounted to 439/. 5s. 9c/. The sales of butter, milk, 
cheese, pigs, and calves, come to 991/. 7s. 9c?., or 19/. 16s. per 
cow. The receipts for milk, as will be seen, very materially 
added to the returns. 
Mr. Cyrus Lea has done a good deal to the improvement of 
his farm during the 15 years of his occupation. He has 
eradicated 4^ miles of old fences, and has prepared for and 
planted 2^ miles of new quick fences, draining and filling 15 
useless marl-pits, and reclaiming 3 acres of waste ; he has also 
drained 21 acres, the landlord finding tiles ; and he has pro- 
vided, as we have said, a hydraulic ram for water supply, and 
erected at his own expense a hay barn, also iron fencing, pave- 
ment for yard, &c. — at a total cost exceeding 700/. 
