in Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales. 487 
The hedges do not seem to thrive well here, there being too 
much smoke from the gasworks, &c. 
The annual labour-bill is about 520/. 
The management of the farm is admirably conducted all 
through, and reflects the greatest credit on Mr. Samuel Cooke. 
Mr. Thomas Williamson, Linacre. — The Judges awarded the 
second prize of 20Z. in this class to Mr. Thomas Williamson, 
whose farm, Linacre, is also the property of Lord Derby. The 
soil is very similar to Mr. Cooke's, being light ; but some of it is 
superior in quality to the other farm ; the subsoil is also sandy. 
These two farms are rather absurdly laid out in this respect : 
that, instead of both being in one block, the fields alternate — one 
field being Mr. Cooke's, the adjoining one Mr. Williamson's, and 
so on all through. The size of the farm is 126 acres, cropped 
thus : — 
20 acres wheat, after roots. 
20 acres barley, after wheat. 
; 16 acres potatoes, after grass. 
2 acres swedes. 
21 acres clover-hay, first year. 
14 acres ditto, second year's cutting. 
20 acres ditto, third year's ditto. 
11 acres pasture, six years old. 
2 acres, steading, &c. 
126 acres in all. 
The wheat-crop on this farm was a very fine one, grown on a- 
field of very variable land. The barley-crop was also good. 
The clover-hay was also a fine crop. The second and third 
year's hay was not so heavy, and the potatoes, as a whole, were 
not equal to Mr. Cooke's. 
Mr. Williamson adopts the same system of supply of manure 
as his neighbour ; of stable-dung he has the manure from 70 
horses, equal to about 300 tons ; also manure from 12 cows, equal 
to 180 tons. He uses 4 tons of nitrate of soda and 1 ton of 
Peruvian guano. 
The mixture of grass-seeds sown is 6 lbs. red clover, 3 lbs. 
alsike, 1^ lb. trefoil, 1J lb. white, 2 lbs. rib-grass, with ^ bush. 
Italian rye-grass and £ bush, perennial. He differs from Mr. 
Cooke in the use of Italian rye-grass, the non-use of which in 
Mr. Cooke's case I cannot understand, seeing that it invariably 
adds both earliness and additional weight per acre to the crop. 
The stock on this farm consists of 
5 working-horses and 1 pony. 
13 cows ; the milk is all churned. 
5 pigs, fattening for home use. 
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