564 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition o/" 1885. 
The live-stock at the time of our first visit was as follows : — 
Horses. . 6 Very good draught-horses. 
1 Horse for the milk-cart. 
1 Nag. 
Cattle . . 1 High-class pedigree Shorthorn bull. 
6 Useful in-calf heifers. 
10 Good yearling ditto. 
3 Calves. 
30 Dairy cows of a very good class. 
Sheep. . None. 
The above stock were all in good thriving condition. The 
horses were getting about 10 stones of crushed oats and bran a 
week, with long hay at night. 
For the horned stock, the system is to grind all the offal corn, 
both wheat and oats (barley is not grown, on account of probable 
damage from hares, though the tenant would like to grow it), 
also maize, &c. ; in fact, whatever can be bought cheap, and 
represents the best money-value at the time of purchase. 
Corn for market is dressed very highly. 
Labour is represented by seven men and three boys, whose 
joint wages come to about 500/. a year. 
Manure. — Very little artificial manure is used except bones, 
and this is put on the seeds in the autumn, about 8 cwt. to the 
acre. About 17 tons were used in 1883 ; and last year, in 
November, there were 10 tons in a shed ready to go on to the 
seeds at once. 
Six hundred tons of manure, purchased in Manchester, is 
chiefly horse sawdust-manure ; and 500 tons of farmyard-manure 
are made at home. Fifty tons of lime are purchased every year. 
Of Implements there was a very complete assortment, in 
exceedingly good order, a large shed being set apart for housing 
them, with a yard in front, secured by good gates, which the tenant 
had himself found ; and there was a large number of modern, 
well-selected ploughs, harrows, grubbers, scufllers, drills, 
reapers, »Scc., too numerous to mention, but all conveniently 
arranged, and ready for work at a moment's notice. The cart- 
sheds contained all necessary farm-carriages, and no rubbish. 
There is an excellent Marshall's 8-horse portable threshing- 
engine and threshing-machine ; the former also drives the corn- 
crusher, while the chaff-cutting and pulping are done by horse- 
power. 
On our last visit we found that Mr. Sherwin had executed, 
at his own expense, a very substantial improvement in the shape 
of putting up a boarded floor in what had been an old barn, at 
the east end of the range of buildings next the stackyard, and 
|A11 bred by 
the tenant. 
