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poses. No separate accounts are kept, and it is thus impossible 
to ascertain the precise profit and loss on the competing farm. 
Nor does Mr. Hanson make a yearly valuation. His method is 
to employ occasionally an experienced valuer, and ascertain the 
worth of both farms just as if he were an outgoing tenant. 
Thus he can give the price received for fat stock, corn, and other 
articles sold off the farm, but not the precise value of the cattle 
as they come from the other holding. 
For labour on all the farms the amount paid in 1886 was 
455L 2s. Gel, or 34s. an acre ; in 1887 it was 4101. 18s. 6d., or 
31s. per acre. The foreman has a cottage and 24s. a week, with 
coal and milk; the stockman a cottage and 18s. weekly; the 
shepherd 18s., and the labourers 17s. a week. 
At the first visit of the Judges in December, this farm did 
not appear to present any feature worthy of special attention, 
except the live-stock ; but, as the competition advanced, it im- 
proved greatly. The tenant showed great energy as well as ex- 
cellent management, and made a very close run for the Second 
Prize. As already stated, the cattle and horses were particularly 
good, while the crops of bai-ley and roots were very promising. 
As illustrating the altered conditions of farming, Mr. Hanson 
mentions that, owing to defective buildings, together with good 
markets before prices were lowered by railway facilities for 
transit and agricultural depression, the former tenant of the 
Common Farm was accustomed to sell nearly all the produce of 
the farm, and maintain the fertility of the land almost entirely 
by means of artificial manures. 
Class 2. — Commended Faems. 
Woodtlwrjpe Farm, Stavelej/, Derbyshire, tenanted hy 
Mr. Thomas White Bower. 
Woodthorpe is six miles north-east from Chesterfield, a 
town with 12,231 inhabitants, engaged in mining and iron- 
working. The area of Mr. Bower's farm is 192 acres, of which 
127 a. 2r. 20 p. are arable, 60 a. 2r. Ip. pasture, and 4 a. Ir. 
20 p. occupied with house, gardens, orchard, and three cottages 
let along with the farm. Woodthorpe is held on a yearly tenure 
from the Duke of Devonshire, at a rent of 240?. a year, to 
which amount it was reduced in 1885, having previously stood 
at 292?. 4s. In 1887 there was paid for rates and taxes, in- 
cluding school rate, 34?. 7s. 'Qd. ; tithes are paid by the landlord. 
The Duke is a liberal and considerate landowner, and agreements 
on the estate are generally satisfactory to the tenants. Mr. 
Bower has been eight years in the farm. 
