332 
Rpport on the Farm-Prize Competition, 1871. 
The cheeses up-stairs, although 70 to 80 lbs, each, are firm, and 
look well, notwithstanding that they are only turned twice a week. 
The fodder-cheese had been sold previous to our visit at 70s. — 
a very extreme price for this spring. Mrs. Clay's cheeses have 
talcen various prizes at the local shows, and one of the lots ex- 
hibited at Wolverhampton this year was highly commended ; 
and, on conferring with the Judges of cheese, we learned that 
the samples only required time to mature and become fine. We 
tasted one of the older cheeses, which was rich and mild as cream, 
and equal to the best Stilton. 
The dairy, milk-room, press-room, and dairy-scullery, are 
well adapted to their purpose. Even while the work is being 
<lone their neatness and cleanliness are marvellous, and the 
domestic department has an air of comfort and taste rarely to be 
found in association with domestic dairying, and only attainable 
where there are daughters to divide the duties, and sufficient 
dairy servants to do the heavy dairy work. 
Secoxd-Pkize Dairy Farm. 
This farm, consisting of 148 acres of grass and 117 of arable 
land, is occupied, under yearly tenancy, by Mr. Matthew Walker, 
and is situated at Stockley Park, about 4 miles north-west of 
Burton-on-Trent, and near the vale of the River Dove. This 
valley extends to Uttoxeter, and is considered a rich pasture 
district, principally devoted to dairy farming, and comprising 
some first-class dairy-farms and farm-buildings. Adjoining Mr. 
Walker's farm resides his landlord. Sir Oswald Moseley, who has 
erected a most elaborate and complete covered homestead for his 
own home-farm dairying ; and in the neighbourhood is the noted 
Castle Hay's Dairy Farm, so favourably noticed by Mr. H. 
Evershed in his Essay on the Agriculture of Staffordshire, in the 
Society's ' Journal' of 1869. 
Mr. Walker has not the advantages of his neighbours : he 
lias neither the convenient buildings, nor the rich pasturage ; and 
the arable portion of his farm is of so retentive a clay that it is 
Vv'ith some difficulty made to produce paying crops. Indeed, were 
it not for his heavy outlay in feeding-stuffs and artificial manures, 
this part of the farm would soon become profitless. Even now 
we consider that some of it might advantageously be laid down 
to grass. The course of cropping adopted is the following : — (1) 
turnips, mangolds, and cabbage; (2) barley and wheat; (3) 
scf'ds ; (4) oats ; (5) wheat. 
The manure is generally applied for green crops in the 
autumn, and occasionally upon a portion of the seeds. Very 
few turnips are grown, but principally mangolds and cabbage, 
