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Report on the Farm-Prize Competition 
8 Horses : — 8 working horses. 
33 Cattle : — 3 heifers fattening. 
13 cows in-milk. 
4 steers fattening in stalls. 
9 young steers and heifer in open yard. 
1 buU. 
3 calves. 
The Horses were particularly good and strong, chiefly 
Clydesdales. 
Cattle were all good, and well attended to. 
We inspected the Turnips, which were Green Globe. They 
were of very fair quality and size. We also saw some of the 
Potatoes. The crop of Reading Hero had been sold on the 
land at 17/. an acre. Champions had made 15Z. an acre. The 
buyer had all the work to do, except ploughing them out. We 
walked over the farm, and we could distinguish some growing 
wheat, which we noticed the more, as it was the first we had 
seen in Northumberland, and it was to prove the only piece 
visible on the 16 farms we visited in December. 
Our second visit was made on the 27th of May, when our 
previous good impressions were fully confirmed. Sixteen cows 
were then in milk, they were getting two feeds a day of pea- 
meal, and barley-meal mixed with bran or grains, long hay and 
potatoes. The Wheat crop, both autumn and spring sown, was 
excellent ; Barley and Oats were promising, new seeds good, 
though rather deficient in clover. The Oats were sown after two 
years' seeds which had been mown three times. The land had 
been ploughed in the previous summer, and worked clean, 
ploughed again in November ; grubbed in the spring with four 
horses, rolled, and drilled in the middle of March, with 3 bushels 
of White Tartars and Black Tartars. Another piece of Webb's 
Challenge Oats after turnips was remarkably good. Potatoes 
were set on land which had been ridged in autumn — split in 
the spring, and dressed with 16-20 tons per acre of good rotten 
manure. Early Bog (a sort of Regent), and Regents liad been 
set. About half a ton of cut sets had been used per acre. The 
seed came from Scotland, and it is Mr. Wilson's practice to 
import a fresh stock every year. Another piece of potatoes on 
much stronger land had been set after seeds and oats. This 
land had been heavily manured with scavengers' manure, put " 
on the land before the first ploughing, and a dressing of i 
farmyard-manure had also been applied ; the sorts planted here 
were Regents, Champions, and Reading Heroes. A third piece 
