G36 lieport on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1886. 
go to the butcher at about twentj-two months old, Thej are 
carried on gradually from birth to death, pulped roots and chaff 
being their staple food for eight or nine months of the year, the 
remainder being a change to green food, tares, clover, &c. 
Cake and meal are supplied all the time, increasing in quantity 
until 3 lbs. of the former and 1 peck of the latter (compound of 
wheat, beans, maize, and lentils) are reached, which is the daily 
quantity given per head during the finishing stage. 
The characteristics of the cows savour more of use for the 
dairy than symmetry attractive to the eye of the grazier ; but a 
useful pure-bred Shorthorn bull is kept to cross with, and the 
fatting cattle lacked none of the points which a butcher would 
consider essential. 
The following is the stock that was on the farm in the 
beginning of May : — 
Cattle. 
Cows, in calf or milk 8 
Calves under one year 12 
Heifers under two years . . . . 2 
Bullocks under two years . . . . 5 
Fat and fatting bullocks . . . . 12 
Fatting heifers 1 
Bull 1 
Total 41 
Sheep. , I Several not 
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( lambed. 
Lambs 147 
Tups 3 
Total 315 
Pigs — fat and stores 57 
Horses, all ages 10 
Pitjs are not bred on the farm, but a considerable number are 
bought and fattened yearly. Between July 1884 and July 1885 
84 had been so turned over, and this may be taken as an average. 
They are bought in at about 1/. each ; and after three months' 
feeding on maize, barley, and lentil-meal, they realise on an 
average 3/. each. 
Horses. — Seven are kept to work the farm, including a brood 
mare ; and taking into consideration the texture of the soil, 
with the loss of time incurred by the mare breeding, the 
