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Report on the Dairy and Stock-Farm 
that can be desired ; well-arranged, stone-built, and substantial ; 
a capital barn, with eight-horse power engine ; shippons, three- 
stall stable w ith tallet for hay overhead : good waggon-house y 
ample shedding ; and a modest farm-house. Mr. Tunstall tells 
us that formerly the land lay in many small farms, which 
have now been thrown together. The appearance of the green 
crops in July was very satisfactory. Webb's Challenge White 
W heat was a nice crop after turnips and potatoes, young clover 
coming up among it ; and there VVas a fine crop of beans after 
oats coming after clover. On the peaty soil the crops were 
uneven. Potatoes, however, on that soil after oats after clover, 
promised to be a very good crop, the result of the heavy dressing 
of manure that they received ; the seeds after wheat which had 
been laid were a very uneven crop. The access to these fields,^ 
and, excepting the public roads, to other fields on the farm, 
were by good roads of the tenant's own making ; a mile or more 
had been at his own cost. He milks generally 20 cows, and 
rears, as we said, all the produce ; bringing in heifers, and 
sometimes the older cows, to the pail in the autumn months, 
when they are saleable for winter milk ; and fattening the steers 
and selling them, and such as he keeps as bulls, at good prices. 
His make of cheese was less than 4 cwt. per cow, and it was 
not of first-rate quality. No butter is made off the whey, the 
pigs receiving it as it leaves the cheese-tub ; but a little butter 
is taken off the evening's milk, especially towards the end of 
the season. The cheese had been sold in 1884 at 645. per cwt. 
Besides the cow-stock, which, as we have said, is remarkably 
good, Mr. Tunstall has a small flock of half-bred Teeswater and 
North ewes of good quality ; 40 lambs had been sold the pre- 
vious year at 255. apiece in August. Six or seven pigs, of a 
good breed, are fattened annually. The farm is worked by 
seven horses (two of them breeding-mares), and there is one 
nas-mare. Mr. Tunstall is well known as a breeder of good 
stock, and is in request as a judge of Shorthorns within his county. 
His farm is a thoroughly well-equipped and well-cultivated area 
of land, made to yield its utmost, whether in permanent grass 
or clover, or arable crops. His stock is thoroughly good, and 
he deserves the second place in this competition. 
Mr. Edward Newhouse, farmer at Anclyffe Hall, in the parish 
of Slyne, about three miles north of Lancaster, occupies 186 
acres of land, of which 35 are arable, the property of H. L. 
Gaskell, Esq., Kiddington Hall, Oxford. The soil is generally 
somewhat heavy, on a marly subsoil. The stone-built house 
and premises stand in the midst of the land, which lies in big 
10 to 18-acre fields around it — partly above it and exposed — 
