574 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of\%%b. 
Cattle .. 16 Cows in-milk or in-calf ; a good class. 
2 ,, outside. 
1 Pedigree Shorthorn bull. 
16 Welsh grazing steers. 
13 Store cattle. 
12 Calves. 
Sheep . .140 Fat sheep (50 sold to the butcher previously). 
60 Cross-bred hoggs (mules). 
Piffs . . 3 Breeding sows. 
1 Boar. 
25 Store pigs. 
15 Fat pigs. 
The fat sheep had all gone off in April. The feeding pigs 
were doing well on boiled wheat and potatoes. The tenant 
thinks they do best when lying thick on the ground, and he 
fills up their ranks with new ones as they are killed off. 
All the milk is sold retail at 2d. a pint. 
There is a want of strict economy in most respects, throughout, 
in the management ; there is no accommodation for carts, iScc, 
and these have to stand about anywhere and in all weathers. 
There is hardly the close attention to detail which should 
always be exercised, and is more than ever necessary where both 
rent, rates, and other expenses are high, as in this case. 
Having unburdened my mind of this reflection, I must 
proceed to do JNIr. Scotson the common justice to admit, that in 
general management, with a view to profit, the results appeared 
to be eminently satisfactory. Air. Scotson is a thoroughly 
business-like, practical man, and " bosses his own show," as the 
Yankees say. 
The principal returns are made from cutting green grass to 
sell to horse and cow keepers in Liverpool, and the remainder 
of the rotation grass is made into ha)- and sold. Potatoes are 
largely grown for sale ; and fair crops of corn and straw, the 
best of which is sold, and the worst consumed, must bring in a 
good deal of money, besides the milk and sundries, which bring 
the gross income of the farm to a very respectable total. 
Milk, from the tenant's figures, brings in about 400/. 
On July 9th, IKi/. worth of green grass had already been 
sold. 
About 120 tons of hav is sold annually. 
No straw is used for litter, potato-haulm taking its place. 
Cotton-cake, mostly undecorticated, is purchased, also linseed- 
cake and bran. Swedes are mostly consumed. 
Mr. Scotson took the third prize, — a Gold Medal, — in the 
Royal Agricultural Society's Farm-Prize Competition in 1877. 
