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sheep in the beginning of June. The following were in stock 
at our November and July visits : — 
November. July. 
Cattle:— ■ Cattle:— 
Fatting heifers and bullocks 23 Fatting heifers 7 
Cow 1 „ bullocks 2 
Cow 1 
Calf 1 
24 
Sheep : — 
Hoggets 100 
Horses : — 
Horses 2 
Brood mare 1 
Pigs:— 
Sow 1 
Stores 8 
9 
n 
Slieep : — 
Lambs 106 
Horses : — 
Horses 2 
Brood mare 1 
Foal 1 
4 
1 Sow and litter of pigs. 
The Cattle in stock in November were chiefly a good sort of 
Polled Irish. They had been purchased at Norwich Hill, and 
were being fattened in the covered yard on 56 lbs. of mangolds 
and 6 lbs. of linseed-cake per day, the latter being increased to 
8 lbs. as the cattle approached maturity. The mangolds are cut 
with Gardner's Cutter into shreds, and mixed with straw-chaff, 
and at night a feed of long hay is given. They are sold off 
fat about the end of February, and a smaller lot is purchased 
and kept on in the yards until July, when they are expected to 
be fit for the butcher and sold. 
About 30 head are annually so fattened and sold at an {luction 
mart ; and from the auctioneer's returns we saw that 21 had been 
disposed of between December and the end of April at an 
average price of 19Z. each. 
The practice is, as will be seen, to fatten all in the yards, and 
not to graze — or at least very sparingly — on the grass ; and in 
this respect the practice is much the same as that on the First 
Prize Farm in Class 3, the primary object of both being to 
combine manure-making with a paying production of beef. 
Sheep are not wintered on the farm, but a clearance of the 
flock is effected in November. One hundred half-bred lambs, 
— cross of Down and Long wool — are bought in June, and 
grazed and folded on the grass pastures and second growth of 
