•JSG , Report upon the Liverpool Prize-Farm Competition 
3 acres swedes, after grass. 
2 acres mangolds, after potatoes ; and 
2 acres of Italian rye-grass on a piece of light gravelly soil, 
where wheat would not grow. 
The wheat promised to be a good crop. The barley, like 
most farms in the neighbourhood, did not promise great luxuri- 
ance. A portion of the oats were grown on land where it was 
impossible to grow a large crop ; where the soil was good the 
oats were a fair crop. The green crops, especially potatoes, 
were superior to every crop we saw during our inspection. I 
may apply the term " simply splendid," so healthy and vigorous 
were they. The hay-crop, all over, was also a large one. Mr. 
Cooke feeds his farm thus : he contracts for the manure from a 
stable of t)4 horses, his calculation being that each horse makes 
4 tons annually ; he also purchases 340 tons of cow-dung. Of 
artificials, he purchases 7 tons nitrate of soda every year ; no 
other artificial manure is used. Indian corn is the staple com- 
modity of food for the stock ; of this he annually purchases 
1080 bushels. His horses never taste oats. In this respect we 
found all farmers follow the same system. The rotation adopted 
on this farm I have already given. When Mr. Cooke breaks 
up his grass-land for roots, he proportions these crops as 
far as possible, and as the fields will admit, to one-sixth. 
The green crops are very heavily manured, to carry on the 
succeeding crops during the rotation. Everything is sold 
off this farm except what is required for home use. The 
mixture of grass-seeds adopted by Mr. Cooke is 8 lbs. red 
clover, 3 lbs. alsike, 2 lbs. white clover, with 1 bushel perennial 
rye-grass. 
Mr. Cooke sows no Italian rye-grass, which is rather singular. 
Me began cutting grass on the 5th of May, which was very early 
for this season. The quantity of produce sold off this farm, in 
the shape of hay and straw, is very large ; and here, as else- 
where, the profit between selling produce and re-purchasing 
large quantities of manure proves the advantage to the farmer 
of having full liberty of action in this respect. 
The stock on the farm consists of — 
5 very good working-horses. When I last saw them their 
coats shone like satin, especially a beautiful pair of 
blacks. There is also a useful pony. 
10 milk-cows, Shorthorn crosses, nearly full blood ; their 
milk is all churned. 
4 two-year-old heifers. 
5 yearlings and two bulls (young). 
1 sow, whose produce is fed. 
