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The Farm Prize Competition of 1890. 
and one in fact had been sold for 2 guineas for a feast to which 
the Judges had been kindly invited. 
Upon the whole, the management of this farm, although not 
quite up to that of those to which the prizes have been awarded, 
is worthy of special commendation. 
Occupied by Mr. William Lawry Treveor, Gorran. 
This, the only farm in Class I. which is in Cornwall, -is 
situate ten miles south of the town of St. Austell, where is also 
the nearest railway station. The country around is an open 
one, and has hardly any hedge-row or other timber. The soil 
is mainly light and easy to work, and being near the sea-coast 
the climate is moist. The cropping is very similar to that in 
Devonshire which has been reported upon, except that occasion- 
ally dredge corn is taken in immediate succession to some other 
cereal crop. 
Some fields have been laid down to permanent pasture by 
the present tenant, and sundry new fences erected. In fact some 
little improvement is constantly being made. 
Four dairy cows are kept and their calves reared, and many 
steers and heifers are bought for grazing and are fed off. The total 
head on the farm numbers 82. They are mainly crossbred 
Guernsey and Shorthorn. Pure Shorthorns have been tried occa- 
sionally, but they have not always been successful. The sheep 
are " South Hams," and are described in the Judges' notes as a 
very uniform good lot. Rams are bought at Totnes or in that 
neighbourhood, because there the wool retains its quality and 
staple, which is not the case in Cornwall, where after exposure 
to the climate it gradually deteriorates. 
Mr. Lawry, who has been on the farm twenty-three years, 
has been a tolerably regular visitor to the Royal show-yards, 
and has there occasionally purchased new implements which 
took his fancy. He has, therefore, a good assortment of modern 
and new implements (such as self-binding reaper, thatch-maker, 
&c.) mixed up with sundry old-fashioned and clumsy ones for 
which Cornishmen still retain their fancy. The average yearly 
sales of stock and crops range from 1,300?. to 1,500/., whilst 
labour is 250/., and artificial manures cost about 200/. 
Class II. — First Prize Farm. 
Occupied hij Mr. E. Cornish, East Farm, Charleton, King$bridg$» 
This farm consists of 182i acres, of which 141£ are arable 
and the remainder in grass and orchards. It is situate about 
