482 Report upon the Liverpool Prize-Farm Competition 
Mr. Wright's labour-bill is annually about 514/. He keeps 
7 useful horses of a powerful stamp, 2 cows, and 2 heifers to 
replace the cows ; about 4 pigs fattened for home use. 
His potatoes are grown entirely with dung, no artificials 
being used. He would find a wonderful effect from a top- 
dressing of cwt. of nitrate, mixed with 1^ cwt. of super- 
phosphate, immediately before earthing-up. Mr. Wright keeps 
no sheep, and everything is sold off. He knows the profit of 
selling the straw and re-purchasing manure, with all the cost 
of carting to and from Liverpool. A great deal has been done 
by Mr. Wright ; he has remodelled his farm, which, when he 
entered it twenty-one years ago, consisted of 37 fields, now- 
reduced to 20. 
Mr. Robert IVhallej/, of Mill Green, Bold, near Warrington, is 
the only tenant in the competition who farms under a lease. 
This farm is deserving of special notice ; the fields are exceed- 
ingly well laid out, the fences well cared for and the farming 
excellent. The steading is commodious and all lit with gas, 
and Mr. Whalley has admirable arrangements, especially with 
regard to economy of labour in pulping roots, and chopping hay 
and straw for winter-keep for his Shorthorn stock, which, in- 
cluding cows, heifers, and bulls (exclusive of 11 calves) numbered 
38 at the time of our winter inspection. The steading is entirely 
under cover. But I must first describe the farm. There are 
157 acres, imperial, of arable land, and 23 acres of pasture. The 
soil may be described as a strong loam ; the subsoil of about 50 
acres is on red sandstone ; the remainder on strong clay. The 
farm is taken on a 21 years' lease. During Mr. Whalley's occu- 
pation the farm has changed owners. It is now held under the 
Trustees of the late Ralph Horsefield, Esq. The farm was 
inspected on the 9th of July, and was under crop as follows : — 
23 acres wheat, after potatoes, turnips, and mangolds. 
17 „ barley, after wheat. 
17 „ oats, after third-year grass. 
19 „ hay, first year. 
22 „ ditto, second year. 
24 ,, ditto, third year. 
23 „ old pastures. 
17 ,, potatoes, 
after 3 years' grass. 
4 ,, turnips. 
3 ,, mangolds, 
2 -J- ,, vetches, 
To the green crop Mr. Whalley allowed 25 tons per acre of 
horse- and cow-manure, with a little nitrate to the mangolds, 
After the vetches are consumed, turnips were to be sown, with 
the same allowance of manure. The grass-land (hay-crop) is 
