646 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1886. 
Second cowman, 13s. per week, 5/. standing wages, no 
cottage. 
2 teamsmen, 12s. ?>d. per week, with 6Z. 12s, 6c?. extra for 
haysel and harvest, and also the option of piece work. 
4 ordinary labourers, lis. per week, with 6/. 12s. 6c?. extra 
for haysel and harvest, and also the option of piece work. 
2 boys at 7s. per week. 
The capital inA'ested in the farm, as shown per Michaelmas 
valuations, was greatest in 1880, amounting to 3229/. 6s. Qd. ; 
was lowest in 1875, 2692Z. 12s. lid. Average of 12 years, 
2996Z. 19s. M. 
The valuation is made when all the crops are in hand, which 
swell it to the formidable sum of 13Z. 10s. per acre ; but it must 
not be inferred from this that so large a capital is requisite to 
commence and carry on the business on such a farm. Practi- 
cally it would be found that two-thirds of it was ample. 
We were also favoured with the amount of average profits for 
the 12 years referred to, which, in keeping with the yield and 
value of crops, varied much, and with the current range of prices 
of farm produce cannot be expected to be large at present ; yet 
they are realised, fulfilling the first condition laid down for our 
guidance, which, with the good all-round management of Messrs. 
Bayly, we considered well entitled them to the Second Prize. 
Class III. — Commended. 
Mr. Joseph Smith, Thorpe Hall, Hasketon, Suffolk, for the 
Walnut Tree Farm, situated in the parish of Henley, and 
8 miles distant from Ipswich, containing 
A. E. P. 
Arable 148 0 0 
Grass 20 2 22 
Total . . . . 168 2 22 
He holds it on a ten-years' lease, dating from 1880, the owner 
being James Clark, Esq., Beech-hanger, Caterham Valley. 
The rent is 240/., tithe rent-charge 51/., and rates and taxes 
about 29Z., making in all about 320/. per year. 
He crops on a four-course rotation, although the covenants of 
his lease do not deter him from doing otherwise ; but they 
bind him at its expiration to have one-half of the arable in 
white-straw crops ; one-fourth in beans, peas, tares, clover, or 
rye-grass ; and one-fourth in root-crops or fallow. 
The greatest proportion of the farm is a heavy loam resting 
