Report on the Farm- Prize Competition <5/'1885. 567 
dressed with 8 cwt. to the acre of :|^-inch bones last year ; this 
field was being cut for hay, and though not quite even, was 
a good well-mixed crop of about 2 tons to the acre ; the 
northern corner of this field, now in third year's grass, had 
given the tenant a great deal of trouble, in taking out twenty- 
seven large trees and levelling holes. 
Eighteen acres of second year's seeds promised a heavy good 
crop, fit to cut ; it had been top-dressed with 5 cwt. of dissolved 
bones per acre. 
Seventeen acres of first year's seeds had cut a heavy crop of 
hay, and was nearly fit to stack. 
Ten acres of first year's seeds, south of the homestead, after 
oats sown on old sod, was patchy ; not much clover, strong rye- 
grass. The fence between this field and the home croft on the 
north was a bad one, but was well made up and planted with 
young quicks. 
The croft itself, 3 acres, is laid down in permanent pasture ; 
this, being the first year after oats, has been top-dressed with 
8 cwt. of boiled bones to the acre, costing 7Z. a ton. 
The tenant has constructed an excellent masonry watering- 
place in this croft, on the south side, the landlord finding 
materials. 
Ten acres of first year's seeds, to the south-east, had been 
cleared in July of a heavy crop of hay, thought to be 3 tons to 
the acre. 
In a 6-acre field of first year's seeds, at the time of our July 
visit, a good crop of hay was in process of harvesting, by two 
forkers and two loaders to each waggon. This field will be 
mown again. 
The north side of the last field joins a covert, and on the 
north side of this covert is the 14-acre permanent pasture field, 
of strongish land drained 5 yards apart and 30 inches deep ; 
this was eaten pretty bare by the dairy cows. It is all the 
pasture Mr. Sherwin has till the hay is cleared, until which 
time the keep they pick up here is supplemented by grains, 
mangolds, and sharps. These cows were looking remarkably 
well when we saw them in July. 
The approach from the lodge is well fenced with continuous 
iron hurdles, substantial and well painted ; these cost the tenant 
3«. 6rf. each, and look exceedingly neat. 
A large field of Webb's Kinver Giant wheat, of 24 acres, in 
the centre of the farm, is not so good as it should be ; it is un- 
even and dirty, and only in some small portions is it a good 
crop. The yield will probably be under 4 quarters to the acre ; 
this and the 15-acre field of oats on the north-west side of the 
farm are the two worst bits of husbandry on the place. 
