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on to concentrated food as early as they will take to it, tlve 
mixture being bran, ground oats, linseed-cake, and bean-meal. 
Mr. Procter decidedly prefers the use of a large proportion of 
the latter, his experience being that it invariably stops scour, 
and acts as a preventive against it. 
The management of cattle — as indeed every department of 
this farm — is carried out in a careful and systematic manner. 
Animals are never allowed to lapse in condition, but steady 
progression goes on from the beginning to the end. 
Tlie Dairy is under the direct superintendence of Mrs. Procter, 
and for order and cleanliness is a model. The milk is kept in 
earthenware bowls, which in summer are placed on the stone 
and slate benches previously referred to, and in winter on the 
wooden ones. The chief product is butter, which finds a ready 
market at Downham. 
Sheep. — Sheep are not bred on the farm, but from 250 to 300 
lambs, a cross between Down ewes and Long-woolled rams, are 
bought in July, and gradually grown and fatted off within the 
year. When on turnips in winter they have as much chaff as 
they can consume, with 1 lb. each per day of old beans, peas, or 
cake, according to the weather, Mr. Procter preferring the 
former when it is wet and cold. 
During the earlier years of his occupancy he sustained great 
loss from lambs being attacked with and dying from diarrhoea, 
as many as twenty per week dropping off. This he found 
arose from placing them on land that had recently been folded 
or depastured with sheep. He changed his practice in this 
matter, and ran them in fields where cattle only during the 
season had been grazed, and with most satisfactory results, 
losing none from this cause in late years. 
Horses. — Twelve horses are kept to work the farm, strong 
useful animals of the Shire breed. Two mares are put annually 
to the horse to maintain the number, and this practice also 
admits of the sale of a good colt or two occasionally. 
There is nothing in their feed or management that calls for 
special note. They are fed in the stable and afterwards turned 
into the yards for the night. 
The number on the farm at our last visit comprised 12 horses 
in work, 1 brood mare and foal, 2 two-year-old fillies, and 
2 yearlings. 
Pigs. — At one time Mr. Procter fattened a great many pigs, 
but gave it up when the price of pork got under 6c?. per lb., 
considering that it did not pay him to feed at less than that 
price. His practice now is to breed from 60 to 70 yearly, and 
sell them as strong stores at about 40^?. each ; the receipts averagR 
150/. per year. All the litter and manure are entirely removed 
