582 Report on the Farm-Prize Competition of 1885. 
Twenty-nine acres of oats, partly Black Tartar, and the re- 
mainder Yellow Poland. The former, on the worst land, were 
very inferior and dirty ; the latter were a fair good crop, and 
cleaner. The tenant has known these oats, when threshed, to 
run from the spout at the rate of one sack in three minutes. 
Twenty-three acres of winter wheat. An uneven crop, good in ' 
places, full of black heads, thin in furrows and in patches ; not 
quite clean, a good " take " of seeds ; on the whole, an average 
crop. 
Twenty-four acres of first year's seeds (American red clover, 
which the tenant likes better than English), cleared of a good 
crop of hay ; a strong good root left. 
Twenty-five acres of Hunter's wheat, late sown. A most 
irregular field, both in shape, soil, and crop, varying from places 
where there was absolutely neither soil nor crop (part of the land 
recently thrown on to the farm), to the narrow strip running 
towards the homestead, where was standing one of the stoutest 
and best crops of wheat we met with. The average produce of 
this field it would be impossible to estimate. 
Seventeen acres of potatoes. The best part of these equalled 
anything we met with of the kind, both in promise and in good 
cultivation ; 20 drills of good swedes were badly singled. 
Fourteen acres of second-year's seeds, twice mown the first year, 
were a very thick good root, top-di'essed with rock-salt, 3J cwt. 
(at 9s. 2d. a ton) to the acre. This field did the tenant great 
credit. 
The whole farm has been drained 6 yards apart, 3 feet deep; 
the landlord found tiles and the tenant the labour. If it had 
to be done again, he would drain 5 yards apart and 30 inches 
deep. The tenant has at his own expense done a great deal of 
heavy work in pulling out old fences, levelling old pits, &c., 
and the excellent manner in which the farm is now Ihid out 
deserves great praise. 
Class II. — First Prize, £30. 
Mr. John Cropper, Moss-side, Maghull, Livopool. 
Arable 48 acres 
Grass 2 „ 
Total . . . . 50 „ 
This comj)act little farm, the property of Edmund Molyneux, 
Esq., is held on a lease which has not been renewed since 1851. 
There are no restrictions, and the tenant is not under the 
Agricultural Holdings Act of 1875. 
