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Report on the Farm'Prize Competition 
57 Cattle :— 
18 heifers on grass bought in recently at 137. 10s. 0(7, each. 
5 steers „ ) 11+02 vears 
3 heifers „ j ^ ^ ^° 
1 „ in calf. 
2 „ • suckling. 
2 calves. 
6 bullocks, .3 years. 
9 steers and heifers, 24 year.?, 
7 heifers, 2j years. 
2 fat bullocks. 
2 cows. 
The Cattle (all bought in) were in healthy improving condi- 
tion, 6 bullocks in the yard forward, 
Mr. Hope's report on the sheep was : " Very favourably 
impressed with sheep stock. Ewes better all round than I 
expected to see them, from my impression at last inspection ; 
three-quarter bred ewes, very good ' class, good size, well 
woolled, uniform in type, apparently very healthy and hardy. 
Half-bred ewes good. Ewe hoggs level and good. AH rams 
of good type." 
Mr. Jordan reported in similar terms and added : " The lambs 
were all exceedingly good, the flock seems to be very well 
managed, and to have been bred with judgment." Lambing 
had begun on the 23rd of March with the valley flock, and 
on the 9th of April with the hill flock. The lambing timo 
had been a very favourable one, dry and healthy. 
Our final visit was made on the 1st of July, one of the hottest 
days of the year. The morning had been spent in walking 
over Mr. Hedley Davison's farm, a few miles distant. We 
were told that the thermometer was 90° in the shade ; but 
whatever it was, we went through with our work and traversed 
almost every field — but we did not attempt to walk over the 
hill. The drought had made some of the corn crops rather 
short and stunted, but most of the Barley and Oats was very 
good. The seeds were very fine, and quite fit for mowing ; but 
Mr. Drysdale had been so busy with turnip-hoeing that he did 
not want to have his hay on hand at the same time. The 
swedes varied a good deal ; some were remarkably fine. One 
field was then being sown with turnips. The cultivation for 
this crop is so similar to what has been already described, that 
it is not necessary to dwell upon it, except to say that Mr. 
Drysdale puts on from 16 to 20 loads of dung, and from 5 to 7 
cwt. of vitriolizcd bones. The swedes get the larger, and the 
common turnips the smaller dressing. The grass was for the 
year plentiful. In one field of 13^- acres were 12 beasts, a. mare 
