Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1886. 
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same quantity of farmyard-manure, with 1 ton of bone-manure, 
sown over the 9 acres, was given. 
Eighteen acres of barley, succeeding the root-crop, were 
•dressed with 1 ton of nitrate of soda, spread over the whole. 
The heavy land is cultivated on the 9-feet stetch, and roots, 
•which came on part of it, were sown at our May visit. 
The working staff comprised 4 men and 1 boy. The live- 
stock in November and July were as follows : — 
November. 
Cattle : — 
Cows 1-1 
Bull 1 
15 
Sheep 10 
Pigs 21 
Morses : — 
Cart-horses 4 
Young horses 1 
Pony 1 
6 
July. 
Cattle : — 
Cows 9 
Calves 3 
12 
Sheep 0 
Pigs 30 
Horses : — 
Cart-horses 4 
Young horse 1 
Pony 1 
6 
The cows are good milk-givers, the produce being made into 
butter, going weekly to Norwich. 
We did not meet with anything in the way of stock or dairy 
management that calls for record, nor was the former in any of 
the classes of a very meritorious quality. 
In May the barley looked fairly well, as did also one field of 
wheat, but Mr. Webster had been unfortunate with the other ; 
it was a very thin plant, he being in doubt whether to plough 
it up or not, and, as is well known, " Nature abhors a vacuum," 
she had managed to fill the spaces between the wheat-plants 
with others certainly not of a rent-paying character. 
We did not again visit the farm, being unanimously of 
opinion that it was out-distanced by the other competitors in 
the class. 
We here desire to acknowledge the obligation we are under 
to the whole of the gentlemen competing for the Farm-prizes 
for the courtesy and hospitality which they accorded us on our 
visits of inspection, and the ready response that they made to 
our enquiries, both then and subsequently. Any other return 
but thanks it is not in our power to make, but our best thanks 
we beg them to accept. 
