314 Report on the Fan)i-Prize Competition, 1871. 
and generally produce about 120 lambs. The ewes during fhe 
winter run upon the meadows until the time for irrigation, and 
afterwards are taken on to the upland grass, being given about 
a quarter of a pound of cake and a few roots. This food is 
increased as they near lambing. 
The lambs are weaned about the middle of June, and run 
on the freshest two-year-old ley ; receiving half a pound of un- 
dccorticated cotton and linseed cake per <lay, and being taught 
to cat it from the ev/es having had up to this time an allowance 
of three-quarters of a pound daily of undecorticated cotton and 
linseed cake. 
In September the lambs are taught to eat turnips by having 
a few loads thrown them on the pastures, and when thoroughly 
accustomed, they are folded upon common turnips, still having 
the mixed cake. From turnips, which are generally finished 
early in December, they go to cut swedes, having an increased 
allowance of cake until the completion of the turnips, which 
is generally in April, when they are washed, clipped, and sold. 
The ewes are fed off annually, and fresh stock purchased. In a 
temporary shed and yard adjoining the homestead, from 70 to 
100 ewes are fed off every year ; they are taken up in the 
beginning of November, and have cabbages and turnips (some 
few cabbages being grown annually), a little clover-hay, with 
mixed cotton and linseed cake, 1 lb. per day, a few grains, and 
half a pint of peas. This we acknowledge is great feeding, and 
we could almost anticipate the result ; but Mr. Winterton says 
the short time needed to make these sheep ripe is something 
wonderful, compared to that required by the ordinary outdoor feed- 
ing ; from six to eight weeks is never exceeded. Caution is taken 
as to the cleanliness of the yards, which are fresh littered every 
day ; and once a week the manure is entirely cleared away. 
From 800 to 900 sheep are purchased annually, principally 
shearlings. Five to six hundred are fatted upon turnips, the 
remainder upon grass. Winter-fed shearlings gnaw their turnips, 
and have a liberal allowance of the usual mixture of cake daily. 
One thousand sheep are annually clipped, and the same number 
annually fed off and sold at the auction mart in Lichfield. Two 
years' seeds give usually an abundance of feed, and that, with 
the liberal allowance of artificial food, enables Mr. Winterton 
to graze a large number of sheep during the summer, and many 
of these go to turnips to top up. Also a certain quantity of 
vetches are grown annually ; these are mown off and given to 
sheep in nets. At the time of our visit there were 300 shear- 
lings eating cake and being thus treated. The stock of sheep 
upon the farm at that date, July 8th, was 80 ewes with 120 
lambs, and 680 shearlings ; the whole eating mixed cotton and 
