in Xuttinghamshvre, Lincohifhlrc, &r. : Clutiscti 2 and 3. 85 
but a good pasture. Eight acres of permanent pasture, which had 
been laid down four years, pastured with cows, was full of feed ; 
but many of the grasses were coarse, with a good deal of York- 
shire fog. For clover and seeds the mixture is 4 lbs. red 
clover, 2 lbs. ribgrass, 4 lbs. cowgrass, 2 lbs. trefoil, 2 lbs. 
white clover, 4 lbs. alsike, and 1 peck perennial ryegrass. 
For the root crops the land had been liberally treated, about 
225 cubic yards of night-soil having been laid on 10 acres for 
swedes and mangold, in addition to lime at the rate of 6 tons 
per acre, and drilled with Sutton's Champion and King swede. 
The mangold was I'ather a thin plant. 
The average yield of the different crops was stated as follows : 
wheat 5 quarters, barley 6, oats 7, swedes 30 tons, hay 1^, and 
seeds 2 tons per acre. A stack of two-year-old hay was sold 
during the summer for 260?. 
There were three working horses — a nag horse, a three-year- 
old, and a two-year-old — all good. Cattle were exceptionally good, 
especially the cows, 10 in number, all shorthoi'ns. It was com- 
puted that considerably over 201. a year would be made from 
each cow. They are fed with 4 lbs. of cake daily during summer, 
and with mangold in spring. Mrs. Widdowson, though some- 
what infirm, takes direct personal charge of the dairy, in which 
she has great pride. She is also very kind to the poor, and is 
much respected. There is a ready market for milk at Hucknall, 
where it is sold at Is. per gallon, butter at Is. 6d. per lb. 
No breeding sheep are kept. The system is to buy hoggets 
in spring, to be fed on pasture and linseed-cake during summer, 
and shearling wethers in autumn, to be fed with turnips and 
cake in winter. Thus two lots are fed off yearly. In Deceinber 
there were 79 shearling sheep, bought for 1631. 10s. ; they were 
sold for 200/. Is. in April. The sheep generally are a Norfolk 
breed, of a type which prevails particularly about Lynn. 
The cost of labour was stated at 120Z. a year. There are 
kept regularly one cowman, one horseman, and two labourers, 
all of whom are paid at the rate of 18s. weekly. Additional help 
is obtained in haytime and harvest. 
So far as could be ascertained, the sales of grain in 1887 
amounted to 250/. ; but the Judges were surprised to find that 
Mr. Widdowson keeps no farm accounts. No sufficient figures 
were put before them to enable them to know with certainty to 
what extent the farm was paying. They were fairly satisfied 
that the management adopted was on the whole profitable, but it 
would have been more satisfactory if the questions put by the 
Society on this point could have been more fully answered. 
