in Northumberland and Durham in 1887. 655 
them to be suitable for the bleak and cold country in which 
they have to find a living. The half-bred ewes were good, and 
all the rams very good. The shot ewes and the hoggs were on 
white turnips, and were well done by. The roots, GO acres of 
swedes, yellow bullocks and white turnips, were of excellent 
quality, and, considering the soil and climate, good crops. The 
arable land was clean, and everything about the farm neat and in 
good order. Forty-eight acres of oat-stubble had been ploughed 
up for roots, and the work of the farm was well forward. 
In passing over the farm we were shown an excellent dipping 
pen which Mr. Davison had constructed. In a hollow, where a 
small rill gave a sufficient supply of water, a trough 11 feet 
long and 21 inches wide had been sunk in the ground. At one 
end of this trough was a folding-pen, and at the other end were 
a couple of draining-pens paved with grooved bricks, and 
sloping to the trough so as to return the drainings from the sheep 
to the trough. The sheep are passed through the trough to one 
of these pens, and when this is filled it is closed, and the other 
filled ; by the time that the second pen is filled the sheep in the 
first are in a state to be turned out. The sheep are all dipped 
in Cooper's dip in the summer, and McDougall's in the autumn. 
We saw also a shallow trough through which the sheep are 
driven to cure them of foot-rot. The farm is said to be un- 
healthy for sheep, and Mr. Davison said that he could never 
fold the hill sheep at night even for clipping. On one occasion 
when he had shut them up, he lost twelve in one night from 
black leg. 
The second inspection was made by Messrs. Hope and 
Jordan on the 10th of May, and from their notes it appears that 
at that time the stock on the farm was as follows : — 
Horses .-—As at last inspection, except tbata stesple-chaser had been 
sold for 220L 
67 Cattle:— 
16 two>year-old stores to be sold at PvotLbury in the following 
week. 
25 yearlings. 
8 cows (including 2 belonging to tlie hinds). 
18 calves. 
These were all in good condition — calves, very good. 
1052 Sheej) :— 
328 Cheviot ewes with lambs by Cheviot tups. ] 
119 Cheviot ewes with lambs by Leicester tups. > 767 ewes. 
320 half-bred ewes with 444 lambs. J 
131 Cheviot ewe-hoggs. 
126 half-bred ewe-hoggs. 
28 tups of various ages and kinds. 
