Dairy and Stock Farms. 
green crop, and that by wheat and grass again. There is a large 
produce of wheat, generally a great produce of potatoes, and 
always an immense production of beef and mutton and bacon. 
Of course there is a large purchase annually of manure : the 
canal brings the Manchester scavenging stuff in barges close 
by, and some hundreds of tons are used every year. There is 
also a great quantity of purchased cattle-food of all kinds. 
The arable land is not all clean ; but Hall Lane farm, only 124 
acres in extent, with its 80 cattle and 200 sheep turned over in 
the year, and its 40 or 50 fat hogs, its wheat crop, and its great 
produce of potatoes, well deserves commendation lor the quantity 
of food that it produces. In addition to all this, 45 tons of hay 
and straw were sold last year for 292/. 
Although no formal award of commendation was made to any 
other farm in this class, there were many commendable ex- 
amples of good and energetic management among them. To 
Mr. Oiocris farm at Halewood reference has been already made in 
this Report. Mr. Joseph Trichett 's Moor Farm near Sandi way — 
153 acres, the property of Lord Mansfield — has 40 acres of very 
productive arable land, covered this year with clean and admi- 
rable crops of oats and wheat, and mangolds and potatoes. There 
is a herd of 30 good dairy cows. Milk-selling has been given 
up, and butter-making adopted ; and 600/. worth of produce, in 
butter, calves, and fat bacon (over and above the cost of meal), 
is made annually from them. There is also a useful flock of 
sheep ; 50 ewes and their lambs being sold fat every year. 
A great deal has been done by the tenant in land improvement 
and good buildings. 
At the Horse-shoe Farm, Henbury, near Macclesfield, Mr. 
Georye Millington farms 150 acres uncommonly well, about 
one-third of it is arable, some being a poor sandy soil. There 
is an expenditure of about 260/. a year in wages, and 400/. in 
purchased food and manure. Thirty to forty cows are kept, and 
a good Shorthorn bull is employed, the stock being kept up by 
7 or 8 calves, and as many two-year-olds are reared ; while the 
same number of cows are fattened or disposed of annually. 
There is an annual sale of 22,000 to 25,000 gallons of milk, 
realising 900/. to 1100/. The other receipts are for fat and 
store cattle, calves, and pigs ; also for wheat and oats, potatoes, 
and a certain quantity of surplus hay. The cows are milked 
always two or three hours before the milk is consumed in Man- 
chester, to which it is despatched without any preliminary 
cooling, the still naturally warm milk being preferred at Man- 
chester breakfast- and tea-tables. There are, good premises, 
and the farm is in good order and productive, notwithstanding 
the excessive quantity of rabbits by which it is overrun. 
