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Report on the Dairy and Stock-Farm 
Blackpool, occupies 175 acres on the Clifton Estate, at a rent 
of 309/. 15s., with tithes and rates amounting to All. additionally. 
It is partly black soil which has been dug for peat during the 
tenant's remembrance. Mr. Bradley himself has been the 
tenant during two leases of 14 and 21 years respectively, four 
years of the last lease being still to run. During this period 
he has spent a great deal in both the permanent and annual 
improvement of the farm. The sum of 260/. was spent on 
buildings in 1859 and 1870 ; more than a mile of new 
fences has been planted during the tenancy. He has drained, 
three feet deep, 13 acres of clay-land ; made roads half a mile 
in length ; removed 4266 yards of old fences ; and added 
nearly three acres of land by filling up marl-pits and ditches ; 
and he has purchased and applied 77 tons of bones and 
290 tons of guano during his tenancy. He milks upwards of 
40 cows. His make of cheese in 1884 was 6 tons 10 cwt. from 
37 cows, 11 of them heifers. There is a flock of 30 to 40 
lambing ewes. His purchases of food include 2^ tons of linseed- 
cake and 130 packs (240 lbs. each) of India meal, costing 
altogether about 110/. a year. He consumed also, in 1884, 500 
bushels of oats, 20 quarters of beans, and 7 quarters of wheat. 
His arable land was not so well done as his pasture. Nothing 
could be better than the latter ; much of it laid down by him- 
self; full of clover and good food. 
Class IV. — In the 4th Class of Farms in the Preston compe- 
tition — Dairy Farms under 100 acres in extent — there were 
8 entries, 5 in Cheshire and 3 in Lancashire. The first prize 
has been awarded to Mr. Edward G. Hothersall, of Lightfoot 
House, Broughton, Preston, who here occupies 97 acres,' 80 of 
which are the property of T. K. Knowles, Esq., of Fishwick Hall, 
Preston. The whole of the land is permanent pasture — 80^ acres 
being divided, 2 fields from 8, by the high road to Preston, and 
bounded on one side by another highway, called Walker's Lane 
— and 18 acres, an outlying piece at no great distance. It is 
wholly permanent grass-land, of which 39 acres are mown each 
year. The land lies in 11 fields, the result, to a great extent, of 
Mr. Hothersall's rearrangement of fences. The fields have all 
good drinking places ; and this also is to his credit. The fences 
are in capital order, to some extent new ; quicks planted two 
years ago have already an extraordinary growth — due to careful 
planting, and subsequently sousing with liquid manure twice in 
the year. The new fence is protected by wooden paling far 
enough from the quicks to allow a swathe of grass to be cut, 
which is carried to the stalls. The public roads furnish access 
