in Northumberland and Durham hi 1887. 637 
power threshing-machine which is never used. There are 
decent stables and shelter sheds, and a good granary. Outside 
of the old range is a byre for feeding, and a new feeding-house 
has been recently built at the joint cost of landlord and tenant. 
It is not an expensively constructed building, but it is a good 
type of a useful one constructed at a moderate cost. The sides 
are stud boarded and the roof is covered with pantiles. It con- 
tains 14 feeding boxes 10' X 10', 7 on each side of a gangway 
which communicates with the root house, and along the gangway 
a truck, running on a tramway, brings the victuals for the stock. 
Over the root house is a cake granary, and over the feeding 
boxes in the roof is a straw barn, into which bundles of straw 
are taken when the corn is threshed. The floor of this loft is 
not continued to the outsides of the building, but a space of 
about 3 feet is left open, and through this the straw is thrown 
down into the boxes. 
The soil of the farm is a light sandy loam : though it has all 
been drained, some portions of it were rather waterlogged on 
our first visit. 
The area and cultivation of the farm are shown in the schedule 
on page 638.* 
The summary shows that a little more than one-half the farm 
is pasture, and one-fifth is in artificial grasses. 
It appears that this year only one-third of the arable land is 
Corn, one quarter is Roots, and two-fifth Seeds. In the pre- 
vious year Corn was nearly one-half, but a piece of Seeds was 
left standing, and some Potatoes were planted after Turnips. 
The ordinary method of farming is on the four-course system, 
Wheat being taken by preference after potatoes, as the climate 
and soil suit this crop better than Barley. Seeds are broken 
up for Oats as a rule, but sometimes Potatoes take the place of 
Oats. 
A breeding flock of about 50 Border Leicester ewes is kept. 
Some lambs are sold fat ; the best gimmers are kept for re- 
plenishing the flock, and the remainder are fattened upon roots, 
loung Cattle are bought and summered on grass or seeds, 
getting cake or meal, and they are fattened in the winter. 
We visited this farm on the 16th of December, and were 
rather fortunate in the weather. There had been heavy rain in 
the morning after a sharp frost, but it had all cleared off when 
I we arrived, and the air was keen. We walked all over the 
I farm, and saw the roots. The mammoth swedes were rather 
* There is a discrepancy between tlie figures of tlie entry certificate, wliicli is 
only partially explained by the omission therefrom of 11 acres of pasture held 
previously to thu hiriug of the Pegswood Moor Farm. 
