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Tynemouth Poor Rate 65 1 10 
Whitley Poor Rate 3 0 4 
68 2 2 
Tynemouth District Rate .. .. 22 4 0 
Whitley District Rate 2 18 8 
25 2 8 
£93 4 10 
In the preceding year these rates amounted to 99/. 19.9. ^d. 
The cost of labour (partly estimated) is put at 414/. 12s., or 
about 375. 6f/. an acre. Purchased manure cost 74/. ; purchased 
food, chiefly grains, cost 147/. 
On the receipt side, 10,220 galls, of milk brought 638/., or 
Is. 3(/. a gallon after deducting commission on a portion of it 
sold to dealers when private customers did not require the full 
supply. Mr. Wilson estimates the whole cost of delivery, in* 
eluding the wages of the boy (8s. a week), at 60/. a year ; this 
leaves 578/. as the value of the milk on the farm. Corn realized 
last year, 336/. ; potatoes, 168/. ; turnips, 70/. 10s. ; clover sold 
to mow made 13/. an acre; straw, 120/.; hay, 290/.; casual 
rents, 55/. ; sheep keeping, 39/. These figures show a con- 
siderable return, and we may suppose that cattle sales exceed 
the purchases, and that a stock of horses such as these will 
occasionally swell the receipts. 
The Judges had not much difficulty in this Class in deciding 
upon the prize farm. 
Mr. W. Davison's Farm, Pegswood Moor, near MorphtS. 
Second Prize in Class II. 
This farm, containing a little less than 200 acres, belongs to 
His Grace the Duke of Portland, and has been held by Mr. 
Davison from year to year for seven years past, at a rent of 
250/,, from which there has been an abatement of late years of 
10 per cent. The rates amount to 22/ 10s. The full rent is 
23s. 9rf., or as abated, 23s. 3rf. ; and the rates are about 2s. 4c?. 
an acre. The tenant, by agreement, is to cultivate on the 
five-course system, but in practice he does as he pleases. The 
landlord does all repairs. 
The farm is about a mile to the N. E. of the town of 
Morpeth. A high road forms the eastern and northern boundary 
of the farm, and the homestead is placed near the centre of the 
farm at a distance of about 300 yards from the road. It 
includes a house occupied by the foreman, a good and sub- 
stantial range of buildings arranged in the usual manner on three 
sides of a sfjuare court. The barn has an old-fashioned horse- 
