598 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1886. 
We have only further to add that, though the competition in 
this Class was unfortunately very limited, yet the practical and 
energetic way in which this farm is managed, and that manage- 
ment resulting as it does in financial success, we considered it 
well worthy of, and had pleasure in awarding, the first prize to 
its active and spirited occupier. 
Class I. — Second Prize, £50. 
Awarded to Mr. Horace Wolton, Neiohourn Hall, Woodbridge, 
Suffolk. 
Arable land 572 acres. 
Grass ,, 86 „ 
Heath 185 „ 
Total . . . . 843 „ 
The owner of this farm is Sir Charles Rowley, of Tendring 
Hall, Colchester, from whom the tenant holds on a yearly tenure 
at a rent of 500Z., and he also pays tithe rent, 160Z., and rates, 
which average about 70/. yearly. 
Mr. Wolton's occupation commenced in 1870, and from that 
date to 1885 the rent paid was 730Z. per year, his landlord 
making a return during the last three years of the time ; the 
present reduced rent commenced at Michaelmas of the last- 
named year. 
He is not restricted to any particular mode of cropping, but 
by choice adheres to a four-course rotation. Hay, straw, or 
roots he is not allowed to sell off the farm, nor is it probable 
that he would sell if he had the power, nor, we might add, would 
it be desirable. 
The late Mr. Wolton, father of the present tenant, held the 
farm for 58 years, and died there in his 93rd year, having spent 
all but two years of his life on it ; and his ancestors, as family 
records show, occupied it for 150 years previously. 
Situation and Soil. — It is situated five miles from Woodbridge, 
and is intersected by main roads. Taken as a whole, and as the 
rent truly enough indicates, the farm is a very poor one. The 
best soil is on the south side, and is a stiffish loam on a clay 
subsoil — indeed on the London CLay formation, — two or three 
fields of which have been drained by the tenant under the pro- 
visions of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1883, and are culti- 
vated on the nine-feet stitch or ridge. The next gradation which 
adjoins the above on the north is a sandy soil resting on the 
Red Crag, the remainder being a light sand — some 108 acres 
