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extending in narrow belts to a considerable distance south anti 
west from the buildings. The soil is a very useful, and for the- 
most part, a good free-working loam, resting on a subsoil of 
gravel, loam, and clay. A portion where the subsoil is clay 
required draining, which has been done to the depth of 4 feet. 
The grass-land is on the north side of the house, bounded, 
and in part intersected, by a stream, a tributary of the River 
Yare. 
In growth the grass is profuse, but its quality is only second 
rate, and Messrs. Bayly feed it with milch-cows, as profitable a 
purpose perhaps as it could well be turned to. 
The predominating feature in the economy of the farm is the 
production of milk. All is subordinate to this. The total root- 
and green-crops grown are consumed (except what the cart- 
horses may get) by a herd of 40 cows and their progeny, and the 
milk they give is sent twice a day to London. As the railway- 
station is practically at the dairy-door, where the milk is 
refrigerated before being sent off, and the cost of carriage to 
London is only one penny per eight pints, the situation is one 
peculiarly favourable for such a business. 
The milk is delivered to a dealer — fixed quantities to be sup- 
plied and taken at a contract price — between April and October 
inclusive, of 14rf. per 17 pints; and from October to March 
inclusive, of 19<i. per 17 pints. These are reduced prices, higher 
ones having been obtained a year or two ago. The return in 
money-value of milk sold per cow per annum Messrs. Bayly could 
not give us, stating, " that with an arranged scale as to quantity 
to be delivered, they sometimes have to buy cows in full profit 
to keep up supplies, and sell cows out of profit to make room for 
them, and also take in springing heifers for that purpose that 
could not be called cows ; therefore they cannot come at any 
reliable statement, and it might be misleading if thej^ made 
one." They quote the yield given by one cow from 19th 
December, 1885, to 10th Jul}', 1886. She calved on Novem- 
ber 5th, 1885. On 19th December, she gave 56 pints per day;^ 
between 19th December and 20th March, she gave 37 pints per 
day; from 20th March to 30th June, 34 pints per day; from 
30th June to 10th July, 30 pints per day. She must, however, 
be a milk-giver far beyond the ordinary. Nearly 1200 gallons 
within eight months is an astounding quantity for a cow to give ; 
and if her milk-secreting powers are transmitted to her descend- 
ants, they will, indeed, prove valuable animals, small frame being 
considered. 
At our November and May visits the live-stock on the farm 
were as follows : — 
