570 
Report on the Farm-Prize Competition q/*1886. 
Sheep. — One year old and above 329 , 284 
Under 1 year old 260 ,099 
589,383 
Sheep bred in the county during one year .. .. 73,447 
„ died from disease or accident .. .. 10,765 
„ slaughtered for meat on holdings .. 24,634 
35,399 
38,046 
We see here again, that the greater part of the sheep stock is 
bought. An examination of the above figures shows that at least 
200,000 sheep must be purchased annually in order to keep up 
the total number returned. 
The number of pigs returned was 95,597, of which 51,063 are 
annually bred in the county. In 1884 there were 114,364 pigs ; 
thus there was a decrease of nearly 20,000, or 25 per cent, in 
twelve months ! 
There are 72 silos in Norfolk, with a total capacity of 
174,282 cubic feet, and an average capacity of 2421 cubic feet. 
They should contain about 3485 tons of silage, an average of 
about 48 tons each. 
According to the latest figures, the total number of landed 
proprietors in Norfolk is 26,648, possessing 1,234,884 acres, 
yielding an annual rental of 2,403,795Z. Of these, 16,552, or 
62 per cent., possess less than an acre. 
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, to whom the members of the 
Royal Agricultural Society owe so much in many ways, has 
been a landowner and farmer in the county since 1863. His 
Sandringham estate is 8000 acres in extent, of which he farms 
1000 acres. On this farm is kept a large number of Shorthorns, 
but in two distinct herds ; one being of the Bates strain of 
blood, while Booth blood predominates in the other. A South- 
down flock of sheep of great purity and character, and now of 
notoriety in the Showyard, also forms part of its live-stock. 
We have it on undoubted authority that on no estate in 
Norfolk is the motto that " Property has its duties as well as its 
rights " more loyally or practically construed than at Sand- 
ringham. And further, that no landowner possessing an estate 
of such magnitude within the county, takes greater interest in 
its economy, or is more conversant with every detail incident 
to its management, than is His Royal Plighness. 
Whether at the present time the farming of Norfolk is at all 
in advance of other districts that could be named, we prefer to 
leave an open question. A well-known authority thus solves 
this question. " If Norfolk no longer occupies its leading 
