490 Report upon the Liverpool Prize-Farm Competition 
Mr. John Owen, who farms under H. R. Sandbach, Esq., of 
Hafodunos Hall in Denbighshire, on the same estate and a few 
miles from the farm of Mr. Hughes, who competed in Class 1, 
is the fourth and last competitor in Class 2. The name of this 
farm is Tyddynacha, parish of Llangerniew ; it lies about 12 
miles from Abergele, and its extent is 82 acres, all arable. The 
soil is partly light and partly heavy ; the subsoil is some of it clay 
and parts of it gravelly and sandy. It is a most difficult farm 
to till, seeing that it almost forms the apex of a Welsh mountain. 
The steading stands 691 feet above the sea-level. This is a 
singularly well-managed farm, and deserving of a special prize. 
What chance could a farm on the summit of a Welsh mountain 
have in competition with the agricultural gardens around Liver- 
pool ? But this farm showed management equal to any that we 
saw in the competition. 
The farm was cropped thus : — 
6£ acres barley. 
22 acres oats (Tawney variety). 
4 acres swedes. 
1 acre white turnips. 
\1\ acres clover-hay. 
35 acres pasture, in 7 fields ; one of these fields Mr. Owen- 
intended to cut for hay. Of the pasture, 2 fields had 
been down for six years, 2 fields for three years, and 
1 field two years. 
1 acre of potatoes ; 
1J acre rocky pasture. 
These crops were all good, the clover-hay particularly so, for 
which Mr. Owen merits much credit. Some of the light land 
on this farm is liable to burn up crops before they reach matu- 
rity, the only way to prevent this being the application of lime- 
composts, clay, &c. The farm is remarkably clean ; I should 
say it is a model in its class. 
The stock consists of — 
3 active working-horses and 1 colt. 
7 cows. 
7 two-year-olds. 
7 yearlings, and 
7 calves. 
The proprietor keeps a good Shorthorn bull, which his tenants 
have the use of, at a small premium. 
Mr. Owen keeps a few breeding ewes (Welsh), and sells the 
lambs fat. The price, 32s. apiece, rather surprised us (it speaks 
for the feeding qualities of the pasture). He also feeds 50 
wether sheep, bought in September and sold off during winter. 
