The Farm Prize Competition of 1890. 
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2^ miles from the small market town of Kingsbridge, which is 
11 miles from the nearest railway station. The tenancy is a 
yearly one, held under Lord William Compton, and has now 
existed for seven years. The rent and rates amount to about 
3201, the former having been reduced from 470Z. since the 
tenancy commenced. 
The house is a new one, and is built on a larger and more 
ambitious scale than are most farm-houses in the county. The 
dairy is large and well ventilated, and the rooms are spacious 
and lofty. The farm-buildings are, however, much scattered 
and inconvenient, and in unsuitable situations. Some cattle 
boxes and yards have recently been erected. Water is laid on in 
the yards, and useful drinking-troughs are provided. In one of 
the buildings, in which there is a root-store with a loft over, an 
opening has been left in the floor of the loft through which 
roots can be tipped from above direct from the carts which are 
backed to the opening, but prevented going too far by wooden 
blocks. 
The farm lies on a hillside facing south-west, and rises 
gradually from a small estuary of the sea (on which is a 
landing-stage or wharf for the use of the farm) to a height of 
350 feet at the highest point. From this latter the open sea is 
visible at three points of the compass. 
About 50 acres of corn and 36 acres of roots are grown 
annually, the remainder of the arable land being in rotation 
grasses of various ages. No definite course of cropping is 
adopted. The wheat sown is mainly Fenton's White, or the Red 
Chaff White, and is drilled in rows 6 inches apart at the rate of 
2 bushels per acre. Some of the corn crops were very promis- 
ing and all very forward. Some trifolium and winter vetches are 
sown, parts of which are mown and taken to the yards for horses. 
The remainder is eaten by sheep twice and occasionally (as 
this 3"ear) three times. The crops are mainly dunged at the 
rate of 15 to 20 loads per acre, with an addition of 5 cwt. 
of mineral phosphate. Where no dung can be had, 5 cwt. bone 
phosphate is substituted. All the swedes and turnips are eaten 
off by sheep, which get also cake and corn. The first year's 
seeds are mown after being dunged, the second and third years' 
are grazed. After this they are generally ploughed up and 
followed by roots. All the rotation grasses had done well, and 
in some of the fields near the house the first year's lea for 
mowing was remarkably full and heavy. 
The permanent pastures are most luxuriant, and have been 
thoroughly well treated. One field of grass intended to be 
mown was very full of the richest herbage. There are some 
