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Report on the Farm-Prize Competition o/lSSG. 
slightly fermented when given. The breeding sows are daily 
grazed in paddocks, where they have sheds to retire to at plea- 
sure. The fat pigs are sold in the locality by weight ; and the 
sum received from this source between the 1st July, 1885, and 
the 1st July, 1886, amounted to 311Z. 135. Q)d. Whether this does 
much more than cover the cost of food is doubtful, but it saves 
drafts on the pocket in another way ; the manure merchant's 
bill being small indeed, and the fertility of the farm, which the 
excellence of the crops shows to be great, must be mainly 
dependent on the manure made by the pigs. But yet it is 
within the range of possibility that this may be bought too dear. 
The actual profit made or loss sustained is, however, very 
difficult to come at, owing to the accommodation rendered by 
the farm to the business in the shape of horse and manual labour 
and produce, of which no account is kept ; but the very superior 
way in which the farm is cultivated, combining cleanness of 
land with crops as heavy as it is desirable to grow with 
fences, gates, and buildings together in perfect order, with the 
great permanent improvements effected by Mr. Scrutton, well 
entitled him to recognition, and we had pleasure in awarding 
him the Second Prize. 
Class IV. 
Mr. William Webster, Stoke Holy Cross, Norwich. 
Arable 66 acres 
Pasture 15 „ 
Total . . . . 79 „ 
This farm, which is the property of Henry Birkbeck, Esq., 
of Stoke Hall, is situated 4 miles south of Norwich, and is 
occupied on a yearly tenancy, at the rent of 105Z., without 
restriction as to cropping or selling of produce ; but his rotation, 
nevertheless, is the ordinary four-course one. 
He paid a rent of 145/. before the commencement of the 
present troublous times, but received a reduction to that first 
mentioned, being about 28 per cent. 
The soil on part of the farm is a heavy loam on a subsoil of 
clay, the other part a " mixed soil." 
Wheat is sown after clover layers; 12 loads of yard-manure 
being ploughed in as a dressing for it, and 9 pecks of seed 
sown per acre. 
Roots follow the wheat, and this year 12 loads of farmyard- 
manure and 1^ cwt. of nitrate of soda were applied per acre to 
the 6 acres of mangolds sown ; and for swedes, 9 acres, the 
