Report on the fFanrickshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1876. 523 
year, and the surplus culled. Each ram takes 50 ewes, or there- 
abouts, the latter receiving a mark according to the sheep with 
which they are assorted. The ewe-lambs intended lor the flock 
are selected early in the autumn, and receive slightly different 
treatment from the remainder of the lambs which are intended 
r early mutton. These latter are carefully kept improving all 
arough the winter, receiving at first about ^ lb. of rape-cake 
with turnips or rape, and a little clover, and towards the spring 
getting cut mangolds, clover, and about \ lb. of linseed-cake. 
It will be sufficient evidence of the careful feeding of these 
sheep, il I mention that in May of the present year 100 were 
sold at Stratford, which averaged 735. each out of the wool, 
I and clipped 8 lbs. of wool apiece. It is needless to say that 
such results as these are not attained without high feeding,; 
still Mr. Lane s svstem did not strike us as at all extravaffant, 
and indeed the cake-bills alluded to further on will prove the 
economv with which it is carried out. The management of 
the sheep-stock all through seemed to the Judges admirable, 
and received their almost unqualified commendation. I should 
add that 160 fat sheep had been sold off the farm between 
November and May, it being !Mr. Lane's custom to buv and sell 
fat, according to his keep. 
Swine. — Three breeding sows are kept, of a moderate size and 
good feeding qualities, to consume (with their produce) the milk, 
offals, «5cc. The young are sold as soon as they will fetch 30s. a 
head, and the sows after the first farrow are fed fof the house. 
I will now briefly allude to our three inspections of this farm. 
From the character of the land it was hardly to be expected that 
the flood of November, during which orr visit was made, would 
cause so much inconvenience to ^Ir. Lane as to some of the 
other competitors, and we found its principal ill-effect confined 
to the meadows, which were deeplv covered with water, and from 
which, therefore, all the stock had been removed. No wheat or 
winter-beans had been sown : but the land was in a forward state 
of preparation, and postponement of seeding was preferred to 
planting the com in an unsatisfactory condition. The he-tegs 
were on bean-turnips, eating one-third of a pound of cake and 
half a pint of Indian com. The ewes on the cabbage looked well 
I and blooming, the ewe-tegs for flock were on rape after vetches, 
' and were getting ^ lb. rape-cake and clover-hay. The swedes 
after seeds were verv good. They were sown as late as the 20th 
of June, either 2 cwt. of Webb s bone-manure, or 1 cwt. of nitrate 
) of soda, and 1 cwt. of " Penguin " guano having been used with 
I them. The cabbages after peas (pulled for market), 3i feet apart 
1 every way, were large and formed a very substantial addition to 
