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The Farm Prize Competition of 1890. 
[ Continued from page 776.] 
5. — The last day of entry is Saturday, December 7, 1889. The Eutrance- 
fee is 1/. to Members of the Society, and 21. to Non-Meinber3. Members of 
County Agricultural Societies that are contributors to the funds of the 
Plymouth Local Committee -will be allowed to enter on the same terms as 
Members of the Royal Agricultural Society. 
6. — Competitors are recommended to send a tracing of the plan of their 
farms with their Certificate of Entry, and to have ready for the Judges on 
their first visit a correct list of the Stock on their farms. 
7. — The Judges will be instructed to withhold the Prizes in the absence 
of sufficient merit in any of the competing farms. 
8. — The Judges will bs instructed especially to consider : — 
1. General Management with a view to Profit. 
2. Productiveness of Crops. 
3. Quality and suitability of Live-Stock, especially that bred upon 
the farm. 
4. Management of Grass-land. 
5. State of Gates, Fences, Roads, and General Neatness. 
G. Mode of book-keeping followed (if any). 
7. Management of the Dairy and Dairy Produce, if Dairying is 
pursued. 
8. The duration of the tenancy. 
9. — The Judges are authorised to recommend to the Council the Award 
of Certificates to any really deserving persons employed on any of the com- 
peting farms for distinguished merit in the discharge of their duties, such 
recommendations to be accompanied by a certificate of good character and 
length of service from the competing Farmer. 
Particulars of the farms entered for competition in each class 
are given in the Table on the preceding page, and the names of 
the Judges appointed by the Council to adjudicate on their 
respective merits are subjoined : — 
James A. Curd, Northbrook, Micheldever. 
Joseph B. Hill, Smethwick Hall, Congleton. 
Frederick Punchard, Underley, Kirkby Lonsdale, 
Nine of the farms are situate in South Devon, one in North 
Devon, and one on the eastern side of the county ; the remaining 
six are in Cornwall. It was anticipated that as one of the 
counties, Devonshire, is the third largest in the kingdqm, and 
the other, Cornwall, about the fourteenth, the two comprising 
together about 1,800,000 acres, the number of entries would 
have been much larger, especially in the Class for small farms, of 
which there are many in the two counties. But this anticipa- 
tion was not realised, and even the very generous offer of Sir 
Massey Lopes, the chairman of the Local Committee, to double 
the amount of any prize won by any of his tenantry, failed 
altogether to meet with that response which so liberal and 
encouraging an advance deserved. Many reasons were urged for 
this paucity of entries. One, more flattering to the sensitive- 
ness than to the enterprise of the local character, attributed it to 
the innate dislike of all Devonshire and Cornish men 1o defeat. 
