584 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1886. 
Class I. — First Prize 100/. 
This was awarded to Mr. Garrett Taylor, Trowse House, 
Norwich, for the VVhitlingham Hall Farm, the property of the 
Corporation of Norwich, and a farm adjoining, the property of 
Messrs. J. & J. Colman. 
The former consists of : — 
A. 
R. 
p. 
Arable land . 
. 300 
0 
14 
Pasture . . 
. 41 
0 
13 
Marsh . . 
. 137 
0 
5 
Osiers . . 
. 12 
0 
0 
Roads 
4 
3 
33 
Wood, &c. . 
1 
1 
24 A. 
496 2 9 
Messrs. Colman's land : — 
Arable . . .. 285 3 28 
Pasture . . 47 3 14 
Wood, &c. . . 7 2 39 
341 2 1 
Total 838 0 10 
The Corporation property is held on lease for ten years dating 
from Michaelmas 1885, with covenants based on the Agricultural 
Holdings Act, 1883. Messrs. Colman's farm is occupied on a 
yearly tenure, the tenant being safeguarded by the provisions of 
the aforesaid Act. The rent paid for the entire holding is 
1236Z. 5s. Qd. per year. The rates and taxes for the year 
1884—5 were as under, viz. : — 
£ s. d. 
Poor and Lighting rates, Trowse Parish 138 5 4 
Highway „ „ „ 7 8 9 
£145 14 1 
The School Board rate is 30s. per child for all from the farm 
in Whitlingham parish who go to the Trowse Board School. 
The roads are all kept up by the tenant, he being the sole 
occupier and there being no public roads. Mr. Taylor's 
tenancy of the farm dates from 1877, but there was early in 
1885 great probability of him being unable to re-hire the land 
of the Corporation, and he was therefore prepared to give up 
the whole ; hence it is obvious that no preparation in anticipa- 
tion of showing the farm could have been made. 
Besides the above, Mr. Taylor occupies Kirby Farm, of 
