602 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition o/" 1886. 
Beans and peas are drilled on autumn-ploughed land, yard 
manure being applied for the former previous to ploughing, but 
none given to the latter. 
The beans, which were on some of the heavy land, were very 
good and clean. That part of the wheat on the same description 
of soil was also a very fine crop, quite as thick a plant as any 
we saw on the farms of better land, while one large field on the 
sand had suffered from the drought, and was not likely to yield 
largely. 
The farm on the whole was very clean ; thistles were cer- 
tainly found in abundance among the corn crops at our May 
visit ; but these had been carefully spudded out before our last 
inspection, and, this excepted, the farm was remarkably free 
from weeds. Couch-grass was nowhere visible. 
Live Stock. 
Sheep. — 400 breeding ewes of the old Suffolk black-faced 
breed are kept on the farm. The rams, six in number, are put 
to the ewes in the second week of October, and allowed to run 
with them for about six weeks. The food of the flock during 
this period is coleseed, clover layers, and turnips. During the 
winter and spring months they have a feed of turnips daily, 
with ^ lb. of rape-cake each, which is increased to 1 lb. as 
lambing time approaches ; just previous to and during lambing 
time \ lb. of linseed-cake and \ lb. of bran are added. After 
lambing they are penned on clover layers, rye, &c., the lambs 
running forward. They are also occasionally run over the 
heath-land, where there is little to be got but the young shoots 
of the gorse, which, as we saw for ourselves, they freely indulged 
in. 
At weaning time, in July, the wether lambs are sold ; and 
the best of the ewe lambs are reserved to fill up the vacancies 
caused by deaths and drafts in the ewe flock, the remainder 
being sold as shearlings at 16 months old. The average clip of 
wool from the ewe flock is 3J lbs. Owing to the fall in the 
price of lambs and wool, the receipts from the flock have 
diminished not less than 45 per cent, between the years 1882 
and 1885, representing a sum of upwards of 500/. 
Cattle. — About 60 head of cattle are sold fat from the farm 
annually. These are chiefly bought at ages between 18 and 
24 months old. From 30 to 40 are summer grazed, and after- 
wards finished off on a mixture of pulped roots, chaff, cake, and 
meal, in quantities of from 8 to 12 lbs. per head per day, com- 
mencing at the former, and increasing to the latter quantity as 
the animals approach ripeness for the butcher. The mixture 
