578 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1885. 
The above is sufficient evidence of the painstaking industry 
exhibited on all sides on Mr. Turton's farm. 
The system of cropping is as follows : — 
Seeds are allowed to lie in three years, are then broken up for 
potatoes, turnips, or other fallow crops. After this comes 
wheat, and finally oats, again sown with seeds. 
The live-stock kept is as follows : — 
6 Very good carthorses (including a brood mare). 
1 Pony. 
4 Good milk-cows. 
2 Fat calves. 
2 Yearling steers. 
2 Yearling heifers. 
4 Heifers under 2 years old. 
1 Heifer under 1 year old. 
The cattle are all fairly good. 
Pigs . . 1 Breeding sow with 5 pigs. 
1 Fat pig. 
2 Stores. 
Besides 6 fat pigs just sold. 
An occupation road one mile in length is kept in first-rate 
order, and the fences on each side are clean and perfectly 
kept. 
Manure. — The tenant uses about 2 tons of dissolved bones 
and about 2i tons of nitrate every year. About 500 to 600 tons 
of stable manure is brought back from Liverpool by carts after 
delivering produce. 
The tenant has the game, and keeps a fair head of all kinds. 
The buildings are well kept, and are pretty well suited to 
the farm. 
Implements. — Farm carriages are good and well cared for. A 
useful assortment for the cultivation of the land, including 
American ploughs, of which the tenant highly approves. A 
small 2-horse power engine drives the chaff-cutter. 
Labour employed consists of three sons of the tenant, who act 
as teamsmen, and two other men, who receive 19s. a-week, with 
house and garden. 
The system of farming is to sell everything into Liverpool, 
and load back with manure, with the exception of that which is 
consumed by stock at home. And it is possible that here again 
horned stock are, to put it plainly, more bother than they are 
worth ; however, they do not prevent the vast majority of the 
total produce going away, and that this realised a very handsome 
sum we saw no reason to doubt. 
