Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 188G. ()35 
and seeded, a very great crop, the largest seen on any of the com- 
peting farms : 5 acres of peas after oats, very good : 6^ acres 
of beans after barley, a fine crop, but rain wanted to mature 
podding: 6^^ acres of mangolds, the best we had seen up to 
this time, very grand plants : 7 acres of red clover had been 
mown and are now laid up for seed : 18 acres of wheat, after 
beans and peas, crops very good : 5^ acres of winter beans, very 
good : 15 acres of sundry green-crops— tares, thousand-headed 
cabbage, white turnips, and a piece unsown, but intended for 
mustard. Barley all good, except 9 acres sown after rye-grass 
folded, which was the poorest crop of anything on the farm : 
23 acres of meadow mown had not been a large crop, but was 
best where folded with sheep eating cake." 
The whole of the crops were very clean. The first piece of 
barley, mangolds, and swedes mentioned are on part of Major 
Heigham's land, which Mr. Turner has occupied since 1881, 
and was when he took it, we understand, in a poor and foul 
state. He thus describes it : " The 65 acres I hired in 1881 
were in a very bad state, poisoned with weeds, and completely 
farmed out." 
Fences. — On soils such as this farm is, the white-thorn grows 
shyly ; but nevertheless the greater part of the fences were very 
good, neatly trimmed, the ditches scoured, and all in good 
order. 
Live-Stock. 
Cattle. — In this matter the safe plan of breeding and rearing the 
most of the stock required for the consumption of the produce 
grown on the farm is adopted. Eight milch-cows are kept, and 
timed to calve in the autumn, the object in view being a winter 
butter dairy. Mrs. Turner attends more immediately to the 
dairy, the only speciality about the management being the most 
scrupulous cleanliness. She prefers wooden vats for the milk, 
finding that it then keeps much better in hot weather than when 
set in lead or earthenware bowls. It is necessary to scald them 
with boiling water after use. A ready market is found for the 
butter among the villagers until the price gets over Is. per lb., 
when they cease to buy it, and it is then sent to Bury. Without 
vouching for perfect accuracy, Mr. Turner puts his return for 
butter at 15/. per cow per annum, being double the sum per cow 
produced at the beginning of the present century. 
The sk im-milk is used to rear the calves ; and besides those 
dropped by the cows, as many are bought and reared as are 
necessary to keep up the head of stock — amounting to an 
average number of 40 all the year round. Many of these are 
not depastured at all, but reared and fattened in the yards, and 
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