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7. Describe the metliod of managing fama horses, and give their 
cost for keep, harness, shoeing, &c., for each horse per year. 
8. Describe the mode of feeding three-year-old bullocks from the 
1st of November to the 1st of March, the kind and quantity of food 
for each bullock with its weekly cost, together with the weekly 
increase in weight for each bullock, which such feeding would 
produce. 
9. Describe the management of a dairy herd during the wint«r 
months, and state the kind and quantity of food with its cost, and the 
l)robable yield of milk and butter from each cow weekly. 
10. Desci'ibe the mode of weaning calves. 
11. What is the age at which a heifer should have her first calf, 
and what is the term of gestation ? 
12. Describe the management of a flock of ewes from the 1st of 
October until after the lambing season, with the most suitable kind 
of food for ewe and lamb up to the time of weaning, the kind of 
food adapted for lambs after weanmg, until put to roots. 
13. Give the number of hoggets required to consume 20 acres of 
roots, of 20 tons per acre, to be made fat from the 1st of November 
to the 1st of March with the amoimt of cake and com they should 
each receive daily, with the probable increase in weight during three 
months. 
14. What are the indications of age of cattle, sheep, and horses? 
15. What are the most prevalent diseases in cattle and sheep, and 
tlie premonitory symptoms of each ? 
16. Describe the mode of preparing and laying down land to per- 
manent pasture. 
17. What is the average cost of the following operations in the 
district with which you are acquainted ? — 
Wheat hoeing at 8 inches apart per acre. 
Bean hoeing at 18 inches apart per acre. 
Eoots hoed and singled at 24 inches apart per acre. 
Topping, cleaning, and clamping turnips per acre. 
Getting up mangolds and filling into carts per acre. 
Planting cabbages at 24 inches apart per acre. 
Filling and spreading manure at per load. » 
Thatching at per square. 
Washing and shearing sheep at per score. 
Cutting and laying a hedge and doing out ditch at per rod. 
Trimming hedges at per chain. 
Draining 3 feet deep at per chain. 
Cost of draining 3 feet deep, 22 feet apart, including tiles, 
at per acre. 
