580  The  Yorkshire  Farm-Prize  Competition,  1883. 
135  acres,  of  which  11  acres  are  arable,  and  the  remainder 
meadow  and  pasture  land. 
About  6 acres  were  sown  with  Webb’s  Black  Tartarian  oats, 
and  looked  a crop  that  would  yield  well.  Four  acres  of  swedes, 
mostly  thinned  before  the  July  inspection,  were  clean  and  well 
-done.  Half  of  a small  field  of  about  1^  acre  was  potatoes  and 
the  remaining  half  a mixture  of  peas  and  beans.  The  potatoes 
were  very  neatly  done  up,  and  were  a perfectly  regular  and 
luxuriant  crop. 
About  16  acres  are  permanent  meadow,  and,  besides  this, 
15  acres  that  were  sown  down  about  five  years  ago  were  to  be 
cut  for  hay.  The  land  had  come  well  to  grass  ; it  was  a thick 
herbage,  and  would  yield  a large  crop  of  hay  of  good  quality. 
A large  proportion  of  the  pasture  land  had  been  dressed 
with  a compost  of  lime  and  soil,  and  had  a close  fine  herbage, 
thick  with  white  clover,  with  an  absence  of  thistles  or  other 
weeds.  During  the  dry  weather  the  fine  pasture  had  evidently  ' | 
got  very  bare,  but  the  rain  had  sent  the  grass  away  with  a rush, 
as  it  was  now  abundant. 
The  produce  of  eleven  cows,  good  dairy  cattle,  is  sold  chiefly 
as  new  milk : about  20  gallons  per  day  are  sold  at  the  door, 
making  lOd.  per  gallon.  Butter  is  also  made  and  sold,  and 
the  skim-milk  not  required  for  calves  and  pigs  is  sold  at  Ad.  per 
gallon.  A grand  blue  cow  had  died  of  milk-fever  in  early 
summer.  Three  useful  heifers  were  in-calf.  Four  black  polled 
heifers  had  not  grown  at  our  last  visit  so  well  as  we  expected ; 
they  were  getting  cake,  and  will  no  doubt  come  out  nice  cattle 
in  the  autumn.  Heifer  calves  are  reared,  and  are  kept  for  cows. 
A well-bred  bull  is  always  kept ; the  one  in  service  at  present 
is  by  the  “ Earl  of  Doune  ” (36,579),  dam  by  “ Edwin  ” (21,671). 
Forty  head  of  cattle,  all  told,  were  all  useful  stock,  and  looked 
like  leaving  money  for  keeping. 
A flock  of  50  good  Lonk  ewes  had  64  lambs  by  an  Oxford 
Down  ram.  This  seemed  to  the  Judges  to  be  the  greatest 
success  in  crossing  that  they  found  anywhere.  The  second  cross 
were  really  fine  sheep,  and  had  much  of  the  Oxford  Down 
character.  The  best  of  the  single  lambs  were  fattened.  Four 
had  been  sold  at  45s.  each.  The  ewes  with  keeping  lambs  were 
out  on  the  highest  land,  and  were  feeding  their  lambs  well. 
48  shearlings  were  grazing  among  the  cattle  on  the  lower  land, 
and  were  likely  to  make  useful  sheep.  An  excellent  Oxford 
Down  ram,  bred  by  Mr.  Fawcett,  and  descended  from  the 
VVinchenden  flock,  went  far  to  account  for  the  fine  lambs  we 
could  not  cease  to  admire : 30  three-year-old  Lonk  wethers, 
costing  a little  over  30s.  per  head,  had  been  bought  in  to  feed  off. 
The  fences  are  all  stone  walls  ; many  of  them  over  6 feet 
