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leading at 5.s. per clay. In fine weatLer this lasts about ten days. 
No beer is given. Each labourer has a cottage upon the farm, 
paying the rent to Mr. Brewster, under an agreement to quit at a 
month's notice. Eight men and two boys are employed, and 
women occasionally for weeding the corn, the total amount paid 
for labour being 361Z. 2s. OV/. 
Mr. Brewster has had some difficulty in establishing his rule 
with regard to beer, and probably his ultimate success was 
due to the power he acquired through his cottages. His was 
the only farm we visited where the obnoxious system did not 
prevail, and great credit is due to Mr. Brewster for his energy 
and perseverance. The wages arc about Is. per week higher in 
consequence. We cordially hope that his example may soon be 
widely followed. 
Buildings. — The buildings upon this farm are most substan- 
tial and complete, being built of stone and furnished with every 
convenience. There are four yards, well shedded to hold cattle ; 
there is also a feeding shed for tying-up 42 beasts, with turnip- 
house attached. 
The barn is well arranged, containing fixed threshing ma- 
chinery, driven by a steam-engine of Hornsby's, of 8-horse-power, 
which, like everything else about the place, was in beautiful 
cleanly condition. The threshing-machine dresses the corn fit 
for the market. There are also corn-mills, choppers, &c., driven 
by shafts. A great outlay was made by the owner, when occu- 
pier, in forming three large tanks to receive all the liquid 
manure, as well as the drainage from the house. These tanks 
are emptied by a double-action force-pump, worked by the steam- 
engine ; the fluid being pressed down cast-metal pipes through 
two hydrants into each of the three meadows, which comprise 
more than 30 acres. Mr. Brewster is not very sanguine as to 
the benefit of this arrangement, and is only charged a very small 
percentage upon the outlay. 
Seeing that no buildings Vv'ere spouted, our attention was 
drawn to the fact, and on inquiring why they were not, we were 
somewhat amused with the reply that there is a clause in Mr. 
Brewster's lease stipulating that " No buildings shall be s])Outed." 
The crops on Mr. Brewster's farm were all as good as possible, 
the turnips remarkably so, and the farm altogether showed a 
very clean and high state of cultivation. 
Mrs. Sankey's Farm, 
Mrs. Elizabeth Sankey's farm was highly commended, and 
awarded a prize of 25/., in recognition of her profitable 
management. 
