788 
The Farm Prize Competition o/1890. 
says lie cannot speak too highly, and certainly the Judges no- 
ticed about the dairy, premises, and utensils under her charge 
a degree of cleanliness which confirms his opinion of her industry, 
and his reliance on her work being always thoroughly and pro- 
perly done. The cream is taken off the milk on the following 
morning, and placed in glass dishes sent by the various purchasers 
so as to be fit to go on to the table at once. These go with the 
morning's milk to Plymouth, or to houses in the immediate 
neighbourhood, as the case may be. 
Very little butter is made, and only when the supply of cream 
is in excess of the demand. If the prices are low, this butter 
is put into pans, salted, and preserved until a higher price can 
be secured. So much of the scalded milk as there is demand for 
goes to Plymouth with the morning's milk, and the remainder 
is given to the few calves or many pigs which are reared and fed. 
The delivery of milk is done by two men, each of whom carries with 
him a book in which are set down details of the quantities 
received and delivered. This book is taken daily to Mrs. Vosper, 
who enters the several transactions in one larger book prepared 
for the purpose. Often 80 to 100 items a day have to be entered 
in the general ledger. Thus the dairy and its produce is a very 
important element in the management of this farm, and here, as 
in other departments, Mr. Yosper has the advantage of a most 
efficient helpmate in Mrs. Vosper. 
A breeding flock of 250 South Hams ewes is kept, and their 
produce reared to maturity. Some of the earliest lambs go off 
fat. Great care is taken in selecting a few of the best of the 
ewe hoggs to add to the flock, and so keep up that high charac- 
ter which it has long possessed. Mr. Vosper being a frequent 
judge of this breed of sheep, knows the best type to aim at, and 
has succeeded in raising a flock of undoubted excellence. Some 
of the wether hoggs were estimated to weigh 28 to 30 lb. per 
quarter &nd to be worth at butcher's price 41. apiece. 
Like most of the other Devonshire farmers Mr. Vosper is 
not horse-proud, though his stud is of that useful and light 
active character which is so suited to the district. Three are 
Suffolks which seem quite at home here, and two others were 
purchased in Wales. They are all well fed and attended to, 
and, in particular, each one gets an occasional bran mash, or 
drink of linseed gruel, and a tablespoonful of nitre every Satur- 
day night, as a corrective of their high feeding during the rest of 
the week, which consists mainly of hay, chaff, beans, malt, bran, 
and crushed oats. All are clipped twice yearly. Pigs arc not 
here that insignificant item which is usual in the locality. 
Twenty-one breeding sows aro kept and their produce fed off. 
