556 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition 0/1885. 
The labour employed consists of 3 teamsmen, earning about 
22s. a-week ; 3 men usually kept all the year round, at 18s. a-week ; 
one old man, at 10s. a-week ; besides which the tenant's son assists 
in the management of the farm and in marketing the produce. 
The gates, fences, and occupation roads were first-class through- 
out the farm, and general neatness was everywhere apparent ; in 
fact, next to the cleanliness and condition of his land, his 
fences, I expect, lie nearest to Mr. Ashton's heart, the pride he 
took in them was so evident. 
Implements on this farm are a superior assortment, and on 
their skilful application the good cultivation of the farm 
depends. As Mr. Ashton has furnished me with a complete 
list, I give it here. 
List of Implements on Boby Farm, July 6, 1885. 
1 Hay elevator. 
1 Horse-power gear. 
1 Hay stage. 
1 Potato sorter. 
1 Potato crusher. 
1 Corn drill. 
1 "Water cart. 
2 Waggons. 
2 Large carts. 
5 Small ditto. 
3 Combined mowers and reapers, 
1 Reaper. 
2 Grubbers. 
2 Scarifiers. 
3 Double-wrest ploughs. 
2 Double furrow ditto. 
5 Swing ditto. 
2 American chilled ditto. 
3 pairs 2-liorse harrows. 
2 „ seed ditto. 
2 bow ditto. 
2 „ drill ditto. 
2 Heavy land rollers. 
1 Cambridge roller. 
1 Turnip drill. 
2 Horse rakes. 
3 Hay sweeps. 
1 Pair chain harrows. 
1 Winnowing machine. 
1 Weighing ditto. 
1 Turnip-cutter. 
1 Steam chaff-cutter. 
1 Grass-seed sower. 
1 Engine and steaming apparatus. 
6 Ladders.. 
4 Wheelbarrows. 
Besides all the hand tools and smaller articles, amply 
sufficient for his requirements, and all well cared for, and in 
working order. 
The cropping for this year was as follows : — 34 acres winter 
wheat (19 acres after lea, 15 acres after potatoes and turnips), 
17 acres of oats (5 after roots, and 12 after lea), 15 acres of 
Webb's barley, 5 acres of vetches, 22 acres of potatoes, 2 acres 
of swedes, 1 acre of mangolds, 42 acres of first year's seeds 
(28 after oats, and 14 after wheat), 22 acres of second-year seeds, 
6 acres of permanent pasture. No strict rotation is followed, 
but it is usually as follows : — 
First year : — Fallow crop, mostly potatoes, and a few swedei 
and mangolds. 
Second year : — Wheat sown down with seeds. 
