49G Report upon the Liverpool Prize-Farm Competition 
There are 3 working-horses, one of them a beautiful roan 
Welsh brood-mare, also 3 young colts, and 3 milk-cows : Mr. 
Kinsey rears the heifer-calves. Three or four pigs are also fed, 
and the bacon not required for home use is sold. 
The farm labour is supplied by 1 carter at 9s. per week, with 
rations ; a boy at 5s. per week, with food : 1 labourer, an Irishman, 
at 16s. per week, with milk night and morning, also a quart of 
beer and bread-and-cheese ; and another Irishman at 15s. per 
week, with same allowances. There is another man employed at 
12s. a week, with dinner and an afternoon meal. 
Mr. Kinsey buys a few sheep, about 45, in September, to eat 
up the foggage ; these he fattens and sells off at Christmas. His 
horses are fed entirely on Indian corn. There is a fine old- 
fashioned hostelrie attached to this farm, of which Mr. Kinsey 
is mine host, where we enjoyed a hospitality we shall not easily 
forget. 
Martin Lane, Burscough parish, tenanted by Mr. John Pil- 
kington, is the last farm to describe in this competition. It is 
on the property of the Earl of Derby, and measures 57 acres, 
imperial ; 50 arable and 7 pasture. The soil is in some parts 
light and others heavy ; the subsoil is brown and black soil. The 
general aspect of the farm is good. Mr. Pilkington takes very 
great pride in his hedges, which are well cared for, though some 
of them are a little open below. His rotation is, roots, wheat, 
oats or barley, and seeds, which lie generally 2 years. The farm 
was visited on 29th June. The crops consisted of 8 acres of 
wheat, after potatoes ; a part of this was a very fine crop. Oats, 
3 acres after grass and 11 acres after wheat ; a fair enough crop. 
Clover-hay, 1st year, 12 acres ; ditto, 2nd year, 10 acres ; a good 
crop, but showing rather too many weeds, which may possibly 
have come with the seeds. 9 acres of very well-managed 
potatoes, the varieties, viz., Victorias, Redbogs, and Pink-eyes, 
were exceedingly true, and promised to be a most excellent crop ; 
in fact, we saw very few better during our inspection. Half an 
acre of mangolds ; 5 acres of five-year-old pasture. 
The stock consisted of 2 horses and a pony ; 4 milk-cows ; 
2 heifers being grazed off the farm ; 4 calves ; 4 pigs fed 
annually. 
The farm is well supplied with manure. Mr. Pilkington 
purchases a large quantity. Horse-manure costs Ss. 6d. per 
ton, delivered on the farm. The only artificial manure Mr. 
Pilkington believes in is nitrate of soda, of which he uses 
annually 2 tons. 
Three men are employed on the farm, at 18s. per week ; one 
man at 15s., with food, which is a high wage. Three women 
also receive Is. Qd. per day in winter. During haymaking and 
