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that a departure from this line may be justified in treating 
of the farming of Gower. The principal landowners are, 
C. R. M. Talbot, Esq,, T. Penrice, Esq., and Sir Hussey 
Vivian, Bart., and their estates possess several features of 
interest to agriculturists. A home farm is kept in hand on 
each of the estates referred to, and the management is gene- 
rally on the most approved principles. To enter into the 
details of each, or any of them, would outstep the limits of a 
general essay. Justice to the farming of Gower can scarcely be 
done without some reference to Park-le-Breos, the home iarm 
of Sir Hussey Vivian, which is more particularly noted for its 
Shorthorns. The herd, though established within recent years, 
has already made its presence felt in most of the Showyards of 
the United Kingdom. These Shorthorns are of Bates blood, 
and they are kept more for useful home dairy purposes than for 
sale or exhibition. Sir Hussey Vivian takes great personal 
interest in the herd, and he contends that a well-bred animal is 
as cheaply kept as a mongrel, and gives much more satisfaction 
to the owner. The greatest care is taken in the selection of 
sires and dams to maintain and improve the purity of this 
herd, which is the principal one in the county, and it may 
safely be predicted that it will yet attain a much higher standard 
of excellence. In addition to its Shorthorns, the home farm of 
Park-le-Breos is stocked with a select flock of Shropshire Down 
sheep, several good Clydesdale horses, and good classes of the 
Large and Middle White breed of pigs. The farm-buildings are 
commodious and conveniently arranged. A special feature is a 
permanent tramway to all parts of them, for conveying food to 
the stock, and the manure from the yards and boxes, to a covered 
depot specially made for its reception. This is the only farm 
in the county where so much attention is given to the manure- 
heap. The liquid manure is also utilised. It is carefully col- 
lected into a tank and pumped over the large manure-heap in 
the depot. This ought to teach a lesson in a county where 
manure is generally so much wasted, and otherwise neglected, 
by in many cases allowing the best ingredients of it to be 
washed into the nearest brook or stream. The machinerv for 
threshing, sawing timber, grinding and crushing corn, and 
pulping roots, is driven by water-power, and is neatly and 
conveniently arranged. 
The Hill Districts of the County. 
The area under this heading includes the whole of the land 
resting on the Coal-measures, or fully two-thirds of the whole 
area of the county. The northern portion of Gower is, however, 
