514 Report on the Liverpool Prize-Farm Competition, 1877 — 
cards (we counted more than 100), showing in how many 
previous contests Mr. Roberts has been successful. He well 
deserves the front rank which has been awarded to him here. 
Beside the Well House and Stapleford Hall farms, the Judges 
saw good management on several other farms of this class, two 
of which certainly well deserve the commendation which we 
awarded them. 
Mr. Robinson, of Lee Green Hall, Middlewich, occupies 257 
acres, the property of R. H. Done, Esq., of which 50 are under 
the plough, 17 being wheat, 22 oats, 6 swedes, 2 potatoes, and 
3 mangolds, all of admirable promise when we inspected them in 
July. There were also 17 acres of capital young seeds, and as 
much of two-year-old seeds, beside several fields also laid down 
by the tenant, which had been many years in grass. The farm 
is worked by 5 horses, two of them mares with foals. A herd 
of 75 cows, fair Shorthorns, produces from 14 to 15 tons of cheese 
each year : all the heifer calves, up to April, are reared each year, 
and the early bull-calves are fattened. A number of the older 
cows are fattened off and draughted annually. The cheese was the 
best we tasted on our round, excepting only that of Mr. Jackson, 
at Tattenhall, on whose farm, afterwards withdrawn from com- 
petition, a cheese-factory had been established. The very ex- 
cellent premises at Lee Green Hall had been greatly improved 
during the tenant's occupation, and partly at his expense. The 
arable land was well managed. The swedes were the best we 
saw, unless, indeed, it should prove that they were too forward ; 
which, however, was not likely in the cool, moist climate of the 
district. The oats were a remarkable crop, and wheat very good. 
Mr. Robinson had done a great deal to eradicate old fences ; some 
3 miles had been rooted up, and a mile of new ones had been 
made. Beside the cows, eight or nine sows are kept in connec- 
tion with the dairy, and their produce is reared and fattened, 
the later litters being sold as stores in the autumn. 
About 500/. worth of purchased and home-grown grain and 
cake and Indian corn, and 150Z. worth of bought manure, and 
some 240/. a-year in wages, besides the rent, represent the 
chief outgoings of Mr. Robinson's farm. His receipts are 
derived from 14 to 15 tons of cheese, 17 or 18 draft-cows, 
200/. worth of pigs, and a certain sale of hay and straw. There 
is also a small flock of sheep. Here, too, as generally on. 
Cheshire farms, there is a considerable receipt from both 
poultry-yard and garden. The latter was full of produce and 
apparent profit. 
Mr. KendaWs farm, about 310 acres, the property of the Earl 
of Derby, at Harbarrow, for the most part a bare unsheltered 
