in Nortliumhcrland and Durham in 1887. 
647 
1065 Sleep .— 
425 half-bred ewes of 3 ages on the hill. 
269 tJiree-quarter bred ewes. 
54 Cheviot ewes. 
21 half-bred tups (hoggets and older tups), 
6 Leicester tups. 
154 half-bred ewe hoggets. 
127 three-quarter ewe hoggets. 
9 sundries. 
The Cattle on this occasion were of fair but not of remarkable 
quality. Some were ready for the butcher, particularly the heifers, 
which were more matured than any we had seen in Northumber- 
land. The two calves sucking were bigger than their dams, and 
both dams and calves were fat. None of these feeding animals 
were getting more than 3 lbs. of cake with some barley-meal, 
cut hay, and turnips. The steers had straw and turnips only. 
The horses were not in very good condition. On this occasion 
we were not much taken with the hill sheep. They looked blue 
in their skins and in poor condition, as if they had had a check 
and the wet autumn had been unfavourable for them. The In- 
field flock was, however, much admired. They were large long 
sheep of very even type. The young sheep were level and in 
fair condition. 
The Turnips were not good, one lot had been grown from 
a bad stock of seed, and most of the roots were misshapen. 
We learned that the harvest had been a fearfully late one, but 
we could not find out exactly when it had been completed ; 
some gossips told us that it had been finished by carting the 
corn into the crew-yards in order to put it out of our sight. 
There is no doubt that in this district corn was standing out 
in December, and however well it may have been attended to 
it could then have been of little value. 
The second visit was made on the 11th of May, by 
Messrs. Hope and Jordan, the reporting judge being ill at the 
time. 
The Barley and Oats had come up regularly and well. 
Swedes had been sown on land well prepared. The seeds for 
mowing had been stocked with sheep ; but were nevertheless 
very forward, and a grand plant. The grass land had been 
eaten off very bare, but it had the appearance of being very 
good land. 
The live stock then on the farm was — 
Horses as he/ore, luitli ilie addition of 1 /( al, and they were now in 
good working condition. 
