especially in the Counties of Surrey and Sussex. 
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wards at the finish, 5 lbs. or 6 lbs. of pea- and barley-meal in 
addition. The following figures show the weight at a little 
more than two years old. In 1^71, nine calves bought from the 
West country, at a week old in March or April 1869, were sold 
at 6s. per stone to Mr. Colebrook, butcher, Guildford. They 
weighed : May 23, a steer, 108 stone, 5 lbs. ; a heifer, 100 stone ; 
May 27, a steer, 117 stone, 1 lb. ; May 29, a steer, 106 stone ; a 
steer, 101 stone, 7 lbs. ; June 5, a steer, 97 stone, 1 lb. ; June 7, 
a steer, 122 stone, 2 lbs. ; June 26, a heifer, 79 stone, 9 lbs. ; 
June 29, a steer, 115 stone, 4 lbs. The heaviest of these cattle 
was just 105 weeks old. 
In June 1872, the crop of 1870 was sold at the same period 
of the year at 5s. Id. per stone, and an average weight of 
94 stone. In 1873 the price was 6s. 8d., and the average weight 
95 stone. In 1874 the price was 6s., and the weight 100 stone ; 
the bullocks in this case being the offspring of good-sized Short- 
horn cows kept at Aldershot. The price of calves during six 
years varied from 35s. to 50s. each. In using Devon bullocks, 
Messrs. Drewitt have found them smaller consumers of roots 
than Shorthorns, and their experience coincides with that of 
their relative, whose system is next to be described. 
INIessrs. John Drewitt and Son farm largely at North Stoke, 
in the gorge of the River Arun, where it passes through the 
South Downs to the sea. The herd is a cross between the 
Devon and Sussex, a comparatively small sort, which does not 
tread through the turf of the river-side meadows. The manage- 
ment is as novel as it is successful. The young cows on this 
farm receive the bull at fifteen or sixteen months old, and during 
three years in succession they take their calves on the meadows. 
They are fattened after the third year. The system is suited to 
the spot and to the breed, and has the advantage of involving 
scarcely more labour than a dry herd. In summer the herd 
numbered 8 cows over four years old ; 20 three years old ; 22 two 
years old ; 27 steers two years old ; 18 yearlings gone to bull ; 41 
yearling steers and 5 heifers, and 71 calves, with 3 bulls. These 
were all on the grass on June 26, except the bulls and a few 
young calves. Ten of the oldest heifers were to be finished in 
the stalls at Christmas, and the remainder in the spring. 
In addition to the 240 acres of flooded meadow and 20 acres 
of dry pasture, there is an arable farm of 450 acres, and 220 acres 
of down ; and other cattle, besides the home-breds, are fattened. 
I am describing, however, the system, and not the farm. The 
breeding-heifers and steers rising two years old are wintered on 
straw, half a bushel of swedes or mangolds, and 3 lbs. or 4 lbs. 
of rape-cake or cotton-cake. The period of calving is between 
September and April. The system has borne the test of twenty 
