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Report on the Dairy and Stock-l'arm 
pasture, lying within the limits of the borough, and occupied 
by Mr. R. Rigby, who milks upwards of 30 cows. We saw also 
10 calving heifers on our first visit in November. He supplies 
customers in Preston with milk. He pays a rent of 310/. ; 
and the borough and water-rates, poor-rate and tithe, bring the 
whole to rather more than 350Z. a year. The Chestnuts comes 
last upon our list, not certainly from any lack of equipment on 
the part of landowner. We nowhere saw land better fenced 
with wall and quick, or provided with more costly premises, 
or better equipped stabling. Large unoccupied buildings had 
been formerly used as a manure-factory, now abandoned ; and 
in these, shippons for a larger number of cattle than are now 
kept are provided. A deep cart-shed was noteworthy for its 
cast-iron pillars, carrying the front eaves, which had beds 
or slots cast on them at regular intervals to carry bars 
2 feet, 3 feet 6 inches, and 5 feet from the ground, thus enclosing 
the interior. The tenant employs large quantities of purchased 
food. INIore than 1 cwt. of India meal, and 3 quarters of a 
cwt. of bran and malt-coombs are used daily, besides \ cwt. 
of oatmeal every day in winter ; some 4 or 6 bushels of brewers' 
grains are also consumed daily. He also buys 10 tons of hay 
and 3 of straw every year. He sells daily 40 quarts of skim- 
milk at 2d. ; 100 quarts of whole-milk at 3rf., and 40 quarts of 
strippings at Ad. His average sale of butter is about 40 lbs. 
a week, corresponding to 15 gallons a day, an additional 
60 quarts, some of which is accounted for in the quantity of 
skim-milk sold — a portion of skim-milk being used on the 
premises. The total produce, 640 quarts, does not seem a very 
large daily produce from 30 cows, and it must be confessed 
that we did not find them so good a herd as we had seen 
elsewhere. 
Class V. — The class of large stock-breeding farms, one of 
the most interesting of the whole, included 3 entries : those 
of Mr. George Ashburner, of Low Hall, Kirkby-in-Furness, 
Mr. James Tunstall, of St. Michael's-on-the-Wyre, and Mr. 
Edward Newhouse, of Anclyffe Hall, Slyne, near Lancaster. 
They have been placed in this order by the Judges. 
Low Hall, Kirkby-in-Furness — Mr. Ashburner's farm, the pro- 
perty of the Duke of Devonshire — lies on a part of the western 
slope of the high land lying between Kirkby and Ulverston, 
extending up to the heather of the upper mountain, and 
stretching down almost to the level of the sea — the highest 
portion some 500 feet above the lowest. It is 470 acres in 
extent altogether ; 204 being mountain and 52 of the remainder 
being arable. Our visits on three separate occasions to this 
