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The Farm Prize Competition of 1890. 
and fences also were in the neatest of order. Some of the 
former had been only recently renewed, and the gates had 
received their triennial coat of paint. 
The general etate of the farm is a very creditable example 
of good management on the part of a small holder. 
Class III. — Third Prize Farm. 
Occupied by Mr. E. F. Damerell, Golwell Farm, Egg BucMand, 
Crown Hill, Plymouth. 
This is a small farm of 84. acres (49J arable, 32 grass, and 
remainder homestead, &c), situate on the south-western con- 
fines of the Dartmoor Range, and about six miles north-east of 
Plymouth. About 25 acres were formerly part of the Buckland 
Common, which was inclosed 25 years ago. The tenancy is 
under lease for seven years which expires in 1892. 
The house is small but well built, and the farm buildings 
are fairly substantial erections. They are not quite extensive 
enough to accommodate all the stock which Mr. Damerell has 
on the farm during winter, but in this respect the position is 
one which is common to most small holdings. The provision of 
sufficient buildings at a cost upon which the tenant can afford 
to pay interest, is one of the difficulties which was frequently 
impressed upon the House of Commons' Committee on Small 
Holdings. 
Of the arable land, 1G acres are in corn, 12| in roots, and 
the remainder in rotation grasses. A dairy herd of 17 cows is 
kept, chiefly crossbreds. The morning's milk is sent into 
Plymouth, whilst the evening's supply is set and scalded next 
morning. Some of the calves are reared until matured for 
either the herd or the butcher. 
About 45 ewes, improved Dartmoors, are bought in the 
autumn; those bought in 1888 cost 40s., and those in 1889 
4Gs. each. An early crop of lambs is taken and the ewes 
are fed so as to go off fat shortly after shearing. In June last 
22 of the 1890 lambs had been sold at 35s. and 36s. apiece, and 
some ewes at 3/. The sheep seen are described in the Judges' 
notes as a very useful lot, and were estimated to clip 10 lb. of 
wool each. Seven horses are kept, but some of them are mainly 
employed in carting stones for the highways and main roads in 
the locality. The receipts for this extraneous work last- yen 
were just above 200/. At the time of the Juno visit, the horses 
were drawing implements to the Show-yard at Plymouth. A 
fairly liberal expenditure is made in cake and other feeding 
