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by a large head of live-stock, to which we would now draw 
attention. 
Cattle. — Proximity to Norwich, and the belief that sewaged 
grass is more profitably used as a milk-secreter than a beef- 
producer, probably determined Mr. Taylor to convert his forage 
crops into the former rather than the latter. At all events, the 
former is in the ascendant, and we found a large herd of dairy 
cows in residence as converters, constituting with their produce, 
which are all reared, the chief live-stock on the farm. At our 
November visit we found — 
Cows 100 
2- and 3-year-old heifers . . . . 42 
Yearlings 82 
Stock bulls 3 
Total 227 
Between November and July, one heifer had been bought and 
64 calves bred ; while sales to the value of 1323/. 5s. had been 
made, leaving a stock of 209 on the farm of all ages. 
The produce of the farm is supplemented by the purchase of 
large quantities of feeding-stuffs — cakes, pollard, meal, &c. — as 
contributories to the maintenance of this large herd and flock. 
The amount so expended in the year 1884-5, which was an 
average year, was 1298/. 17s. Grf. As a rule, from 80 to 
90 cows are in-milk. Ten cows being allotted to each milker, 
milking is commenced at 5 o'clock A.M. and 3 o'clock P.M. 
The milk is refrigerated, tinned, and despatched twice a day to 
Norwich by cart. Cold water for refrigerating is obtained from 
a well, deepened for this purpose at the tenant's expense. Ice 
is also in request in hot weather, and a supply is obtained 
from an ice-house near, also constructed by the tenant. The 
most of Sunday's milk, as well as any surplus of other days, is 
made into butter. Ninepence per gallon is the price obtained 
for milk in summer, and lOJ. per gallon in winter. 
The total receipts for milk and butter sold in 1885 were 
2080/. 10s. Id. 
The breed of cattle kept is the Red Polled. The foundation 
of the herd was laid in 1878 by the purchase of heifers from 
Mr. Henry Birkbeck of Stoke, and J\lr. Colman, Easton Lodge 
Farm ; and these have been supplemented with heifers from 
Mr. Brown of Marham, Mr. Fulcher of Elmham, and further 
surplus stock from Easton ; while in 1884, the whole of 
Mr. Henry Birkbeck's herd of 41 head was purchased for 
Whitlingham. This was a valuable addition, the herd having 
been carefully managed, and the purest blood only admitted 
