Dairy and Stock Farms. 
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district, near Ulverston, is, one-third of it, in permanent grass. 
It is provided with a capital farm-house and premises, including 
a noble hay and corn barn, open to the north and east, capable 
of holding 6000 cubic yards, .and costing 350/. The stock, when 
the Judges saw the farm in December, included 21 large Short- 
horn cows in-milk, 14 calves, 25 yearlings, 15 two-year-olds, and 
16 fattening cows and steers. The arable land is being gradually 
diminished, it being Mr. Kendall's intention to lay down enough 
land to keep 25 cows and their produce, fattening them off as 
grazers in the third year. The farm is worked by 6 capital 
horses, one or two of them being mares, generally with foals. 
Very full and explicit accounts are kept by Mr. Kendall, and it 
would be profitable to relate his experience in full detail. It 
must, however, suffice to say that the receipts from the farm are 
derived from a sale of between 2000 and 3000 gallons of milk 
annually, at 10J. a gallon, a considerable sale of butter, about 
15 fat beasts annually, and from 100 to 200 fat sheep, besides 
the produce of the cornfields and a certain amount of straw sold. 
The outgoings, beside rent, include wages, about 200/. a year (not 
including the board of four men and three women in the house), 
about 100/. a-year spent on manure, and some 600/. spent in 
purchased and home-grown cattle-food. The best-conditioned 
lot of calves and yearlings anywhere on our rounds were seen on 
this upland and almost North-country farm. The two-year-olds 
grazing in the lower pastures were also capital thick-fleshed 
Shorthorns. There is a very good small herd of Shorthorn cows, 
on which a pedigree bull is used. One particularly good Short- 
horn cow had been purchased, and was being fed for Christmas 
show. The arable land is well managed ; the swedes are grown 
in drills upwards of 30 inches wide, on 6 or 7 cwt. of Hill's 
turnip-manure per acre ; the dung is all taken either to fallow 
for wheat, when it is intended to sow permanent grass-seeds 
among it, or to the land after turnips for barley or for wheat. 
Of the other farms in this class, it must suffice to merely 
name them. Scale Hall farm, near Lancaster, is in the occupa- 
tion of Mr. J. Woodhouse, who does a large business in the 
provision of milk ; about 100 gallons daily are sent out, and a 
stock of 50 or 60 useful Shorthorn cows, some of them pedigree 
animals, are kept for the purpose, on a farm of 210 acres, 
two-thirds of which is permanent grass. There is here a large 
consumption of purchased cattle-food, and upwards of 30,000 
gallons of milk are sold annually at an average price of 8d. per 
gallon ; 17 to 20 fat and draft cattle are also sold at an average 
price of 20/. More than 20 heifer calves are reared annually 
and brought into the dairy at 3 years old. There is a small 
but very useful flock of Leicester sheep, and an annual sale of 
