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amounted to 114Z. 3s. 9c?. ; of butter 663 lbs. were sold at Is. Zd. 
= 41/. 8s. 9c?. ; and 179 loads of potatoes at 4s. 6c?. The labour 
of the farm required three men, two at 10/. and 26/. respectively, 
with board, and one man at 15s. a week ; also one dairywoman 
and girl at 17/. and board ; and about 5 guineas extra in labour 
was spent in hay and corn harvest ; altogether 97/. 5s. in money, 
or with board, probably 150/. a year, which seems a great deal 
for 67 acres. It is, as we have said, an outlying farm, with no 
advantage of access to markets, and with heavy cost of carriage. 
Mr. Walley has nevertheless bought 3J tons of bones and super- 
phosphate, and spent a good deal in marling. The purchases 
of food come to 36/. a year, chiefly of India-meal ; and 6 qrs. 
of wheat and 68 qrs. of oats of home growth are consumed on 
the farm. A good deal of both labour and money has been 
spent by the tenant in providing water supply to the farm, a 
good deal also both in marling the land and in new fences. 
The farm is well managed, and Mr. Walley had perfect right 
to claim a place in this competition for his occupation ; for it 
is a worthy example of good and industrious management by 
one who is strictly a native of his place and parish. 
Mr. John Gregory, of Waverton, near Chester, a tenant of 
the Duke of Westminster, occupies 66 acres, of which 18 are 
permanent grass ; the rest being cultivated on a rotation of oats, 
green crop, and wheat, followed by as many years of grazing 
as seems desirable. Here, too, is a good example of one born on 
the place. His family have resided as tenants on the same estate 
for two hundred years. He milks 22 cows, and, on our first 
visit, had 6 yearling heifers, and 1 coming three-years-old in- 
calf. There is a great stock of poultry on the farm, and 35 turkeys, 
20 geese, &c., were being prepared for Christmas. Mr. Gregory 
had made 95 cwt. of cheese that year, which fetched 342/. ; and 
he sold 240 lbs. of butter at Is. 3c/., fetching 15/. ; he also sold 
40 fat hogs and porkers, fetching 90/. Thirteen calves made 
42/., 7 heifers and cows, 74/. 10s. Mr. Gregory purchases 
about 80/. worth of cake and India-meal, and bran for stable 
use, in the year, and consumes about 50 quarters of home-grown 
oats. He has generally spent 25/. a year in bone-dust and 
superphosphate. The great features of the farm are the perfect 
homestead, stone-built, well arranged — due to the land-owner — 
and the appearance of the stackyard, which is due to the tenant 
and his sons : the most perfectly built and well-thatched ricks 
anywhere to be seen. Everything about the place is neat and 
well arranged. 
Mr. C. Catherall, Goosnargh, near Preston, occupies 72 acres, 
