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Report on the Dairy and Stock-Farm 
deep, 8 yds. apart, the landlord finding the tiles. He has planted 
1^ miles of new fences, the landlord finding the quicks. He has 
also drained and filled in 1400 yards of ditches, the landlord 
finding tiles. It will be seen that this is a case where the tenant 
was willing to give an enormous rent in the outset, which has 
not been materially increased by the owner on the tenant's im- 
provements. But how it can have been worth its original rent 
thirty years ago is hard to understand. It has certainly been very 
materially enhanced in value during Mr. Loxham's tenancy. The 
farm is in perfect order ; the quick fences, all his own growth, 
are so many narrow walls of green, perfectly clean beneath, 
with deep ditch alongside, into which the subsoil-drains deliver. 
The land is divided into seven fields, one of them a grass-field 
of 3 acres near the premises ; and there is a garden and orchard 
by the house. There is access by a good road to the farther 
fields ; and there is a small outlying piece a quarter of a mile 
away. The farm-work of the farm is done by himself, a son 
just rising into manhood, two daughters, and a hired man at 3*'. 
a day for three months at harvest time. One farm horse, a 
good thick mare, is worked, and another is hired for a couple 
of weeks at busy times. Horse hire cost 22s. last year. The 
buildings include barn, cow-shed for four cows with gangway, 
2-stall stable with hay place, cart shed with loose-box and 
granary over ; and a Dutch barn for hay, 30 ft. by 18 and 
15 ft. high, has been built by the tenant. There is a substantial 
somewhat low-roofed farmhouse with sufficient outbuildings. 
The stock on our first visit included two cows, a white heifer, 
2-year-old, in-calf, and a heifer calf; also a young bull, which is 
kept for the accommodation of the neighbours. There were six 
capital long white pigs in the stye which had been bought for 
33*. three months before, and then weighed probably ten score 
apiece. Of these, twelve are fed every year up to 20 st. apiece ; 
and there is about thirty head of poultry. The cows are re- 
markably well bred and selected. Two large-framed extra- 
ordinary milk-producing machines were being milked three 
and even four times a day in the early months after calving, 
and 90 lbs. of butter were being sold in May and June. One of 
the cows had been dry a month before calving, the other had been 
milked night and morning up till calving during the previous 
three years. One of these cows had been down with milk-fever 
in the spring of last year at her last calving, but had happily 
recovered. The food bought for this stock is about a pack, 
equal to 240 lbs. of Indian corn or meal weekly, of which 70 lbs. 
goes to the horse, and as much as 140 lbs. to the cow stock and 
pigs. When in lull milk they were receiving last July 7 lbs. 
apiece of Indian meal <laily, grazing in the 3-acre ])iece of grass ; 
and this, with the hay from off the clover field, whether one two 
