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partly below it and sheltered by belts and wooded banks, with 
many large trees bearing witness, as the crops do, to the quality 
of the soil. Most of the land was arable when the late Mr. 
Newhouse took it twenty-five years ago, and it has been laid 
down during the tenancy since. The rent, 340/., with 63/. in 
tithe, rates, land-tax, road rates, &c., amounts to over 400/. a 
year, or 43s. an acre. The farm is strictly a stock-breeding farm, 
having unquestionable right to its place in this class. Twenty- 
five cows generally are milked, and on our first visit we saw 
7 heifers in-calf coming three years old, 12 yearling heifers, 
11 heifer calves, 9 steers, and 2 bull calves ; also 1 yearling 
Shorthorn bull just bought for 30 guineas. The sheep stock 
include 80 ewes — 56 half-breds by a Leicester ram out of 
black-faced ewes, and 24 of the large, hardy, longwool Wensley- 
dale breed. There were also 32 lambs, 2 rams, and 6 feeding 
sheep still on the farm in November. Ninety lambs had been 
sold at 35s. apiece, and 6 ram lambs at from 55s. to 60s. apiece. 
Ten VVensleydale rams had also been sold at 5/. apiece. The 
other stock included 3 good white sows (middle breed), 2 of 
them with 15 pigs, and 1 in-farrow, and 1 fat hog ; and there 
was plenty of poultry about. It is plain that Anclyffe Hall is 
distinctly a stock-breeding farm ; stock indeed, not only in 
quantity but in quality, for the cow stock were generally of a 
fair Shorthorn quality ; two polled cattle, however, not the worst 
milkers, being amongst them. On our second visit we saw 
many which were then yielding 10 quarts of milk at a meal. 
The food consumed during the year included 180/. spent in 
bean and pea and India meal, and in linseed and decorticated 
cotton-cake ; also all the oats grown upon the farm. Mr. New- 
house sells a certain quantity of milk, generally 13 gallons 
a day, at 9c?. a gallon, delivered in Lancaster. His sale of milk 
amounted last year to 176/. 5s. ; his butter sales to 130/. a year, 
being 2080 lbs. at Is. ?>d. He also sold 5 fat cows at an average 
price of 23/., 4 fat cattle at an average price of 26/., 3 heifers at 
17/., 13 bullocks at 8/. and 11/. each, and 2 young bulls at 20/. 
and 21/. His calves receive new milk for a month, and then 
skim-milk with Bibby's meal. The other sales upon the 
farm amount to 60/. or 70/. worth of wheat, seed oats, and 
potatoes. The labour is accomplished by 3 horses and a nag. 
A foal is bred annually, and we saw one three-year-old colt, 
one yearling, and a foal. All the men are boarded and lodged 
in the house, including one carter at 26/., one cowman at 25/., 
one day labourer at 26/., one dairywoman at 19/., one girl and 
one boy at 9/. and 5/. respectively ; and 5/. or thereabouts is 
spent extra at harvest time. The money expended in wages 
thus comes to 115/., but the board of so many must cost at 
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