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Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1886. 
XXII. — Report on the Farm-Prize Competition in Norfolk and 
Suffolk in 1886. By W. J. MosCROP, Loftus, Saltburn-bj- 
the-Sea, Yorkshire. 
Judges. 
WiLLTAM Jonas, Heydon Bury, Eoyston. 
George Rutherford, Printonan, Coldstream, N.B. 
William J. Moscrop, Loftus, Saltburn-by-tlie-Sea. 
The fourteen farms entered in the competition for the prizes 
offered by the Norwich Local Committee, through the Royal 
Agricultural Society, in connection with its annual exhibition, 
held this year at Norwich, are situated, as regards nine of them, 
in the county of Norfolk, while the other five are in Suffolk. 
Hitherto it has been the practice of those reporting on the 
competing farms to briefly touch on the geographical, geological, 
statistical, and other prominent features incidental to the district 
in which the Show for the year is held, more especially those 
having a direct bearing on its Agriculture. Believing that 
such features as the counties now in reference present will 
be found fraught with matter more than ordinarily interesting 
to readers of the ' Journal,' I will make no apology for em- 
bodying them in this paper. 
Physical Features and Agriculture of Norfolk. 
Norfolk is a maritime county in the east of England ; it is 
bounded on the N.W. by the Wash ; on the N. and N.E. by the 
North Sea ; on the S.E. by the Breydon Water and River 
Waveney ; on the S. by the Waveney, a short artificial line, and 
the Little Ouse ; on the S.W. and W. by the New and Old 
Welney, and again a short artificial line. It is joined on the W. 
by Lincolnshire ; on the S.W. by Cambridgeshire ; on the S. and 
S.E. by Suffolk. It is so nearly surrounded by water a:J to be 
almost an island, nearly two-thirds of its boundaries being 
tidal water. The coast has an aggregate length of nearly 100 
miles ; it has no bays, creeks, or headlands of any note ; it is 
everywhere monotonous and tame, and lies so flat and low as to 
be visible at but a very short distance at sea. The general 
surface of the county is flatter, lower, and less diversified in 
feature than any other tract of land of equal extent in the 
kingdom ; it boasts neither of hills nor mountains, and is best 
and simplest described as a " great plain." 
The principal rivers are the Ouse in the west, which is tidal to 
Denver, with its tributaries, the Little Ouse, the Wisney, and the 
War ; the Yare in the east, which is navigable for small vessels 
