in NottinghamsJiire, Lincolnsldre, &c. : Classes 2 and 3. 79 
This statement includes the quantity of milk actually sold, 
but not milk used in the house, amounting to about three gallons 
daily. The receipts from the purchase of beasts in the same 
series of years will appear from the subjoined statement : — 
Year 
Beasts bought 
Beasts sold 
Difference between the 
purchase and sale prices 
£ 
t. 
d. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
£ 
t. 
d. 
1882 
511 
12 
6 
630 
10 
0 
118 
17 
6 
1883 
674 
10 
0 
800 
5 
0 
125 
15 
0 
1884 
395 
15 
0 
514 
14 
6 
118 
19 
6 
1885 
415 
7 
6 
551 
8 
0 
136 
0 
6 
1886 
365 
12 
6 
744 
11 
6 
378 
19 
0 
1887 
469 
17 
6 
720 
3 
0 
250 
5 
6 
1883 
662 
9 
6 
920 
3 
0 
257 
13 
6 
Taking an average of these seven years, the money received 
from milk, together with the sale of beasts, was 875Z. lis. 6d. 
yearly. Corn sold on an average for three years at 182Z. The 
payment for cake and feeding-stuffs was 222/. IGs. 3d., taking 
an average of three years ; manures 27/. 7s. 9d. for the same 
period. A good deal of manui'e is purchased in Nottingham at 
3s. per ton, chiefly stable-dung. This is taken to the yard, 
spread out and mixed with the manure of the cattle, which is 
rich and strong owing to the quantity of feeding-stuffs consumed. 
The cost of labour, taking an average for the same period, 
was 18il. 3s. 8d. a year. There are no cottages on the farm. 
A carter and stockman are each paid 18s. to 20s. weekly, with 
extra payment in harvest. Three young men for milking cows 
ax'e boarded in the farmhouse, and are paid on an average 111. to 
13/. each yearly. Additional help is obtained in harvest and 
for securing mangold. 
This outlay is not large, considering that no part of the 
farmwork is neglected or pei-formed in a slovenly style. Neither 
money nor effort is spared with a view to obtain the best possible 
return from the land ; but the more ornamental departments of 
rural economics are not less carefully regarded. The general 
aspect of neatness is exemplified in a long hedge separating the 
arable from the grass fields, which a competent authority de- 
scribed as " not only a credit to Mr. Shelton, but, after all, the 
most remarkable feature upon the land." Narrow at the bottom, 
thick in the centre, and with a sharp edge at the top, it was 
even and well-grown throughout, and, moreover, the land was 
perfectly clean up to the roots, a horse-hoe having been run from 
end to end. This hedge was not made in a day ; it is the 
result of very careful and prolonged attention, and could not 
have been, done with any view to farm competition. 
