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year,  no  rent  for  it  was  charged.  One  field  had  been  dressed 
with  4 qrs.  per  acre  of  Vin.  bones,  supplied  by  the  landlord  ; 
the  results  were  not  satisfactory.  Richardson’s  grass  manure, 
applied  at  the  rate  of  6 cwt.  per  acre,  had  been  used  with 
visible  advantage. 
Some  of  the  first  sown-out  land  had  been  covered  with  fold- 
yard-manure,  but  the  herbage  was  still  thin  and  poor. 
Another  field  which  had  been  sown  down  two  years,  had  the 
bags  standing  in  it,  containing  a sowing  of  4 cwt.  per  acre  of 
bone-meal. 
The  prospect  of  any  of  these  fields  speedily  becoming  good 
permanent  pasture  was  not  very  hopeful,  but  in  their  present 
condition  they  aie  still  to  be  preferred  to  poor  clay  fallows, 
which  have  of  late  years  brought  to  their  respective  occupiers  a 
crop  of  unproductive  labour.  Mr.  Taylor  has  suffered  the 
penalty  which  is  generally  paid  for  grazing  these  newly  laid- 
down  clay-lands  with  sheep  in  autumn : within  the  last  10 
years  he  has  lost  237  sheep  from  fluke-rot.  The  ewes  and 
lambs  running  on  the  farm  at  the  time  of  our  May  visit  were 
apparently  sound  and  doing  well. 
Like  several  of  the  farms  we  visited,  this  was  indebted  to  its 
occupier  for  several  permanent  improvements.  Mr.  Taylor  had 
led  all  the  materials  for  the  commodious  buildings  ; part  of  the 
stones  had  been  brought  a distance  of  12  miles.  He  had  also 
made  a mile  of  road  leading  from  the  highway  to  the  house. 
Class  II. — First  Prize. 
Mr.  Hutchinson,  Manor  House,  Catterick,  near  Richmond. 
This  farm  is  on  the  estate  of  Sir  John  Lawson,  whose  man- 
sion at  Brough  Hall  lies  a short  distance  outside  the  western 
boundary  of  the  farm.  The  house  and  buildings  may  be  said 
to  form  part  of  the  village  of  Catterick,  which  stands  on  the 
south  side  of  the  river  Swale,  distant  about  5 miles  from  the 
town  of  Richmond. 
The  farm  is  situated  in  the  beautiful  “ Vale  of  Mowbray,” 
which  is  said  to  commence  at  Catterick  Bridge,  and  finally  lose 
itself  in  the  great  Vale  of  York  ; it  is  altogether  a fine  agricul- 
tural district. 
When  the  Show  of  the  Royal  Agricultural  Society  Avas  held 
at  York  in  1839,  a prize  was  offered  by  the  Yorkshire  Agri- 
cultural Society  for  the  best-managed  100  acres  of  arable  land. 
This  prize  was  won  by  Mr.  John  Outhwaite,  of  Bainesse,  whose 
farm  joins  Manor  House  on  the  east.  Mr.  Outhwaite  told  the 
Judges,  when  they  called  to  shake  hands  with  him,  that  he  had 
for  one  of  his  competitors  on  that  occasion  a proprietor  who 
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