516 Bcport on the Liverpool Prize-Farm Competition, 1877 — 
mutton and wool, varying from 300/. to 5 007. a-year. The arable 
land occupying the lower fields is fairly managed. The farm 
carries a heavy rent, and pays a great labour bill. 
Mr. F. Harrison occupies at Hutton Grange, 455 acres of 
alluvial land on the south side of the Ribble, four or five miles 
below Preston, only 155 acres being embanked from the tide, to 
which all the rest is exposed. It is all grass-land. About 50 fat 
cattle and some 300 fat sheep are sold every year. Two dozen 
cows are milked, and some 3 tons of cheese and 120/. worth 
of butter are made annually, some of the milk going also to the 
rearing of the calves. The inclosed land is improving under 
the system which continually feeds them from the marsh land 
beyond the embankment ; for the sheep kept on the river-side 
marshes during the day are always driven to these enclosed 
fields at night. The farm is remarkable for a very complete set 
of buildings, apparently beyond the needs of the occupation. 
Ranges of mangers are fed from tramways in the gangways 
alongside of them, on which Willacy's self-acting apparatus 
for supplying the cattle with cut-roots as it passes along may be 
employed. 
Mr. Thomas BorthwicK s large farm at Nantywrach, over 700 
feet above the level of the sea, on the high-land in Denbighshire, 
between Colwyn and Llanwrst, must not be omitted from my list, 
notwithstanding that he desired to withdraw from the competition. 
A great deal has been done here to improve the land by fencing, 
roads, and sheltering plantations ; and the tenant, who has 
large dealings in the cattle-trade, keeps the land well stocked 
with cattle and sheep suitable to the bleak uplands which he 
occupies. 
Class V. — Stock and Dairy Farms of 100 to 200 Acres. 
The fifth class of dairy or stock farms, which includes all those 
between 100 and 200 acres in extent, represents the ordinary run 
of Cheshire and Lancashire dairy farms, and there were no 
fewer than eleven entries. Of these, the Judges placed Water- 
side farm, in the parish of Ashton cum Stodday, near Lancaster, 
in the occupation of Mr. Richard Mackereth, first ; and Weaver- 
bank farm, near Middlewich, in the occupation of Mr. Charles 
Hollingshead, second ; and Mr. Peter Percival, of Hall Lane 
farm, between Warrington and Runcorn, was commended. 
Waterside Farm is about 2 miles from Lancaster, and 112 
acres in extent,* lying between the higher ground close by the 
Ashton Hall Park and the edge of the tidal river Lune. Four 
* There is also an outlying field of six acres of grass-land in Mr. Mackereth's 
occupation, a mile or two away, which we did not see. 
