Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1885. 
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distant some ten or twelve miles in the case of Mr. Sherwin, 
and some eighteen or twenty in that of Mr. Callwood. 
On November the 17th, 1884, the Judges appointed by the 
Society to act in the Farm Competition met by appointment at 
Preston, and there received the entries, maps of the district, on 
which the locality of each farm was marked, and also general 
instructions as to the most advisable routes to follow, »Scc., from 
the Secretary, Mr.H.M. Jenkins; and thus equipped, commenced 
their first round of visits on the following day : and though the 
writer of this Report was summoned to London by telegraph 
the same night, to what proved to be the deathbed of a very 
near relative, — and was consequently prevented from being 
present on the first round of inspection, — through the kindness 
of his colleagues in allowing him the use of their notes, he is 
enabled to give information on points of management and 
certain details, which were noted by them on that occasion. 
The entry form received by each competitor contains, amongst 
other information, describing the terms of the competition, the 
following, which I think it best to insert here for the convenience 
of mv readers, some of whom may not have had access to the 
form I allude to : — 
" The Judges will be instructed especially to consider — 
" 1. General management with a view to profit. 
" 2. Productiveness of crops. 
" 3. Quality and suitability of live-stock. 
" 4. Management of grass land. 
" 5. State of gates, fences, roads, and general neatness. 
" 6. Mode of book-keeping followed (if any). 
" 7. Management of the dairy and dairy produce, if dairying 
is pursued." 
And though it may fairly be admitted that if all these seven 
points are satisfactorily carried out, they embrace every object 
which it is desirable to bring about on any farm, still it was 
for the Judges to mentally couple " cleanliness " with produc- 
tiveness in Point 2, and to include the management and suit- 
ability of implements and machinery in Point 5. The Judges 
were also very properly instructed " to take into consideration 
any special advantage that one competitor might have over 
another." 
The second round of inspection commenced on Friday, 
April 17th, 1885, and the third round on July 8th, this being 
the final one. These three visits are necessary, in order to 
follow the management of each individual farm from cause to 
effect, the effect or result being seen on the summer round of 
inspection in the crops, some secured, and others nearly at 
