Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1886. 
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November. 
Cattle ;— 
Cows in calf or milk .. .. 42 
Heifers 10 
Calves 18 
Bulls i 
Horses : — 
Cart-horses • .. 
Cobs 
(One of the cobs kept for 
milk-cart, -working root 
pulper, &c.) 
Pigs 
Cattle :— 
Cows in calf or milk . , . . 38 
Cows, fatting 5- 
Heifers .. ' 9 
Young Bulls 3 
Old „ 1 
Calves 1-t 
70 
Horses : — 
Cart-horses T 
Cobs '1 
Pigs 
We may state that the Red Polls are greatly in favour with 
jNIessrs. Bayly, and that 50 head of the above are pedigree- 
animals of that breed. They also contemplate having all the 
cattle they require on the farm of this breed. 
The feeding and treatment of their cattle are very carefull_y 
and systematically gone about, a few particulars as to which 
I will now give. 
Winter-feeding. — All the roots are passed through " Moody's 
Shredder " worked by pony-power, and mixed as follows : one- 
third roots, one-third cut-hay, one-third straw, all by measure. 
These are mixed one day and used the next. Each cow gets 
as much of this mixture as she can eat up clean, with an 
allowance of concentrated food besides, chiefly decorticated 
cotton- and linseed-cakes, the quantity varying from 2 lbs. to 
7 lbs. per head per day, and is governed by the milking- 
position, and other circumstances of the animals individually. 
All the houses are well ventilated without draughts, and the 
whitening-brush and disinfectants are freely applied. 
Summer-feeding. — All the cows and young cattle go to pasture 
as soon as possible after the grass has grown a little. The winter 
allowance of cake is continued to the cows, and is mixed with a 
little chaffed-grass and shredded mangolds, a portion of the 
hedge-banks being daily trimmed to procure the former. It is 
considered an essential point always to give the cows something- 
nice to eat while being milked, it attracts their attention from 
the milkers, and the milk flows more freely. 
Treatment before and after Calving. — About ten days before a 
cow is expected to calve, she is put on a pasture very short of 
feed, and given a Sutton's drench, with 1 lb. of Epsom salts. 
