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Report on the Farm-Prize Competition 
informed that he had taken nine or ten prizes for pigs at a local 
show of cottagers' pigs. We afterwards heard that when the 
news of his master's success in this competition arrived he 
burst into tears, and wished that his old master was alive to 
hear of his son's success. There is no need to enlarge upon 
the good feeling which exists between master and servant. 
In deciding upon their award of the first prize to Mr. Angus, 
the Judges had in view the uniformly good management which 
prevails in every department of the farm work. With no 
advantages of climate, situation, or soil, excepting about GO 
acres of pasture land, a system of legitimate farming is carried 
on with great judgment in the selection of stock, and great skill 
in preparing them for market. In this case there are none of 
the advantages which accrue from proximity to a market for 
hay and straw and forage and roots. In no way could the 
produce of an outlying farm be so cheaply transferred to the 
consumer as in the form of meat. It may be said that the farm 
exhibits no striking instance of a departure from the old routine 
of farming, and no grand results. The system of farming is 
one which is well adapted to the situation. The land is not 
merely kept in good condition, it is being enriched and im- 
proved. One criticism, made by the Judges of Class 4, who 
inspected this farm for the Champion prize, should be recorded. 
It was that Mr. Angus was using large proportions of his cake 
upon the best grass, which did not require manuring, while the 
poorer lands, which most required assistance, got least. The 
answer to this is that the cake is given most liberally to the 
forwardest animals, and these could not be finished off on the 
poorest land. 
The Judges, after very carefully comparing the merits of 
the different farms, unanimously awarded the first prize to 
Mr. Angus. 
Mr. J. K. Lyall's Farm, Peepy, Stocksfield-on-Tyne. 
Second Prize in Class I. 
This farm, which contains 757 acres, is the property of 
Mr. W. W. B. Beaumont, jM.P. It has been in Mr. Lyall's 
occupation since May-day (13tli May) 1876. 
The tenancy is from year to year, with 12 months' notice to 
quit. The entry is on the 13th of May, but the incomer has a 
right of pre-entry to the fallows after the end of November and to 
a portion of the grass-land on the 25th of March. One hundred 
and twenty acres of the grass have to be cleared of stock from 
the 1st of January. The outgoing tenant has a right to an 
