808 
The Farm Prize Competition 0/ 1890. 
ducks and geese, and 150 cocks and liens complete <tte list of 
live stock. 
The labour bill amounts to about 15s. per acre, and pur- 
chased feeding stuffs and manures cost 250/. Corn and other 
produce last year realised between 450/. and 500/., and live stock 
sold for about 700/. 
An excellent and simple system of accounts (Elliott's Far- 
mers' Account Book) is kept, in which columns and pages are 
prepared and filled up for a year's transactions under each 
department or heading. The method is exceedingly simple and 
clear. A balance-sheet and valuation is made each year. Mrs. 
Ford lends a hand very frequently at these accounts, as well as 
looking after the dairy work. 
Class II. — Highly Commended Farm. 
Occupied by Mr. Charles Horn, Bloiciscombe, Yelverton. 
This farm lies at the foot of the western fringe of the 
Dartmoor Forest, and participates in the rougher climate which 
prevails in that district. It is seven miles south-east of 
Tavistock, and a similar distance north-east of Plymouth, and con- 
tains 159£ acres, of which one half is arable and the other half 
grass. Mr. Horn has been tenant for four years only, and has, 
therefore, not had time to get all the arable land into equal order 
and condition. But he is going the right way to work, and in 
course of time may take a higher position in a similar competi- 
tion. His old pastures, and some fields which have recently 
been laid down, show signs of much liberal treatment. In one 
of the former there was the unusual sight of the ox-eye daisy, 
generally so indicative of poverty, growing in the midst of most 
succulent clover, which is frequently taken as a proof of 
fertility. The daisies were significant of previous poor treat- 
ment, whilst the latter was the result of recent applications of 
forcing dung. A continuance of the latter will soon eradicate 
the former. A field of meadow grass intended for hay was an 
especially heavy crop, and full of good herbage. It has heen 
mown regularly during the tenancy, and has received a coating 
of dung (eighteen carts to the acre) directly after the removal of 
the hay crop. 
A dairy herd of twenty cows is kept, but its management 
differs from that on the other farms reported upon in one im- 
portant point — namely, that the cows are sold as soon as they 
have produced their second calf. This is the time when, as a 
rule, they realise most money, because of the demand for thero 
