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2190 gallons sold to dealers at 9(/. a gallon. The milk sales 
thus realised 830Z. 75. 6rf., and with pigs and calves the sum 
reached amounts to 36Z. 2^. apiece over the 35 cows. Mr. 
Jonathan Fowler's stock are liberally treated. The purchase of 
food comes to nearly 560/. a year, including 11 tons of linseed- 
cake, 99Z. I65. ; cotton-cake, 8/. 3s. %d. ; barley and beans, 
11. I85. ^d. ; Indian corn, 11. 15s. (Sd. ; India meal, 333Z. 2s. 2d. ; 
desiccated brewer's grains, 86/. ; straw, 13/. 2s. Id. The cattle 
and pigs are all housed in very comfortable buildings, arranged, 
as usual, on three sides of a square. The farmhouse looks like 
a villa residence ; but the family living in it are plain, hard- 
working people. The milk is carried directly to the houses of 
many private customers. This is done by one of the daughters, 
who keeps the accounts and collects the payments weekly. A 
large quantity of butter — 100 lbs. a week at the time of our 
Midsummer visit — is made : the average of the year being 
90 lbs. a week. If to the 12,775 gallons of whole-milk which 
are sold, there be added the quantity of milk which is required 
to yield 4680 lbs. of butter — probably something like 13,000 
gallons — it will be seen that the quantity of milk yielded by 
the 35 cows is close upon 26,000 gallons, or rather more than 
730 gallons per cow ; and this is not at all a considerable 
thing, considering how rapidly the cows are changed in the 
•course of the year, 22 having been sold and 24 bought in 1884 : 
and that they are well done is plain from the enormous quan- 
tities of food annually bought for them. In fact the yield is not 
730 gallons per cow, but 730 gallons per stall — a very different 
thing, for the stalls are being constantly changed, and kept 
always occupied by cows during their productive period. 
The land also is well done, the grass being dressed and boned 
alternately — some 12/. to 14/. worth of artificial manure being 
bought annually, and use being made of the liquid-manure tank. 
The farm manure is well cared for, as, derived from the con- 
sumption of so much purchased food, it deserves to be. A well- 
enclosed central stance for it is roofed in, and to some extent 
also walled in, with sheets of corrugated iron. The corn bought 
comes to 10/. a week, and putting cows and pigs and other 
stock together, and reckoning the whole as equal to 40 full-grown 
cattle, this is equal to 5s. per week of bought food per head, 
•equal to the purchase, in fact, of 10 lbs. of meal or cake per 
head daily. The whole farm and the business on it is plainly 
all well in hand — managed by a very capable tenant and his 
family. It may be mentioned also that a garden yields 12/. 
worth of rhubarb annually, besides garden stuff for house use. 
It is a highly rented farm in capital condition. The landlord 
has provided good buildings and an unusually good house. 
