in Nottincjluimshire, LiiicuhisJitre, dtr. ; Glasses 2 and 3. 49 
farm. Tliis arrangement is unforbunate, but in other respects 
the buildings are very convenient, quite sufficient for the re- 
quirements, and are kept in good repair by the tenant. In form, 
they are nearly a square, and are compactly arranged. The 
yards are divided by a post and rail fence into five compart- 
ments, each with a small shed, in which the cattle may find 
shelter. Accommodation is provided for wintering from forty 
to fifty cattle. In a central position, with a granary over it, is 
the stable for working horses, rather old-fashioned, and with no 
provision for ventilation. The nag stable contains two stalls, 
and has a loose-box at one end, also a good harness-room and 
coach-house. The straw barns are conveniently situated for 
access at once to the stackyard and the cattle-sheds. 
The implements, purchased new by Mr. Wadsley at a cost of 
567Z., are modern and in good order. The following may be 
regarded as a complete list : — 
Four wagtrons, four carts, one fanning cart, five ploughs, one ridging- 
plough, one drag, one Duciifoot by Ashton, one reaper by Hornsby, one 
Bentall, otherwise called a Ooleman or share drag, three sets of Howard's 
seed-harrows, one set of joint harrows, one set of chain harrows, three 
turnip-cutters by Hornsby, one drill by Garrett, three horse-hoes, one Cam- 
bridge roller, one flat roller, two dressing-machines, one weighing-machine 
and weights by Avery, one wheel-barrow, thirty sheep-troughs, ten tumbrils 
(feeding-troughs), one hay-raclr, twenty dozen hurdles, six ladders, a bean- 
mill, a cake-breaker, two chaff-boxes, a running-barrow, a bushel and a 
hand-barrow. 
Around the buildings are the grass-lands. The arable 
fields are all on the right side of the road leading towards 
Spalding, from which they have convenient access, but the 
nearest of them is about half a mile from the homestead. Still 
more inconveniently situated is the fen portion of the farm, 
which is two miles distant from the farm-buildings, with nothing 
but a yard with a covered shed to accommodate about fifteen 
cattle in winter. This yard is fenced round with oak slabs 
eight feet high, and was constructed at a cost of 25L by the 
tenant. It appeared to the Judges that it would be a gi'eat 
convenience if a cottage with a small barn were erected in this 
part of the farm, which would tend to obviate the present c©n- 
siderable expenditure for labour in the cartage of corn to be 
dressed at the homestead. 
The fen portion of the farm is drained under the Black 
Sluice Act, obtained from Parliament in 1846; and, in virtue of 
the powers therein granted, the land is taxed at the rate of six 
shillings per acre. During recent rainy seasons, however, the 
ordinary appliances were found totally insufficient to keep the 
land in even tolerable order. A centrifugal pump by Marshall 
VOL. XXV. — s. 8; B 
