Report on tlie Warwickshire Farm-Prize Comjjetiiion, 1876. 521 
The whole of the corn is cut by machines, and what with this 
and the extra crops the horses do not enjoy any sinecure, as may 
be imagined. Their winter-keep consists of half a bushel of 
old beans and half a bushel of Indian corn, with good clover 
between feeds, and bean or pea cavings and riddlings for supper. 
In the early part of the summer they live on the vetches which. * 
are cut in the order named in describing that crop. When these 
are finished, they are turned out on the lattermath clover, and 
still later down in the dairy-ground (near the house) to com- 
mence again with their corn-feeds. The work is very stiff after 
harvest to get the winter-bean land manured and ploughed, and 
the clover-leys broken up for wheat. 
Cattle. — In November we found 66 head of cattle on the farm ; 
in May, 78, and in July, 66. They were thus divided : — 
Norember, 
1875. 
Mav, 
1876. 
Julv, 
1876. 
T> 
lo 
12 
12 
Feeding cattle 
15 
24 
20 
In-calf heifers 
(Stirks) . . . 
. 
■ 
5 
11 
11 
Yonng grazers 
21 
IS 
10 
11 
12 
12 
Bull 
1 
1 
1 
Total . 
66 
7S 
66 
The stock, which is entirely of the Shorthorn breed, is very 
good. The cows are of a capital roomy type, with large frames 
and good flesh. For the most part Mr. Lane rears, feeds, and 
finishes all the cattle bred upon the farm ; but occasionally a lot 
of two or two-and-a-half year old grazing cattle are sold off to 
finish elsewhere. A bull of pure Shorthorn blood is always in 
use. At the present time a young bull of Bates' blood, which was 
selected at the last Birmingham Show, is in service. !Mr. Lane 
keeps rather a large dairy, it will be noticed, but does not sacri- 
fice to that object the fleshy and feeding quality of his cattle, 
which are most of them of pure blood of various strains. The 
grazing land is more adapted for feeding draft cows than 
bullocks, and these are generally bought in for the purpose of 
fattening in the autumn or winter, and kept in the yards, where 
they get barley-straw and mangolds. The in-calves are kept in 
the same way, and any showing want of condition get 3 lbs. or 
4 lbs. of linseed-cake, and a little flour from offals, and some of 
the worst of the hay till near calving, when they get the best 
hay and mangolds. Mr. Lane has a great idea of feeding the 
cake principally upon the land with sheep, and in other 
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