586 Report on the Fai~m-Prize Competition of 1885. 
No kind of cake is ever used ; the cows are fed in winter on 
7 lbs. of maize-meal a-day, grains from a whiskey-distillery, 
costing %d. per bushel, sliced turnips, and long hay. Hay- 
chafF is mixed with the other food. 
Pigs (of the Middle breed) : — 
3 Good breeding sows. 
0 Fat pigs. 
9 Store pigs. 
About 100 hens are kept, no particular sort, all good layers. 
Eggs and chickens are sold. 
Implements and carriages, &c., are all in excellent condition ; 
they are of the most modern and approved kind, and all are 
well painted. 
The grinding-mill and chaff-cutter in the barn are driven by 
a threshing traction-engine when at home, but, as it is hired 
out, this is not always at hand. 
The threshing-machine is travelled by one of the tenant's 
sons, and earns about 200Z. a year. 
Labour. — All the work is done by the tenant, his two sons, 
and two servant-lads, who live in the house, and get 18Z. and 
20/. respectively ; also a labourer, who gets IQs. a week and his 
board. Extra labour is hired at potato and harvest time. 
Manure. — Artificial manure is not much used. About 
200 tons of muck is carted from Preston by return-carts when 
delivering produce. In October 1883, 8 acres were boned, at 
the rate of 10 cwt. per acre, costing 8/. IQs. per ton. 
Sixty acres of the land has been drained 3 feet deep, the land- 
lord finding tiles, and the tenant doing the labour. 
Crops. — A spare space in the large stackyard is turned to good 
account with a cabbage-crop. 
Nineteen acres of winter wheat, after potatoes, on ifioss-land, 
a level moderate crop ; a good many annuals rather choke it 
at the bottom ; this land is for beans next year. 
Eight acres of good potatoes, not quite clean, fairly well cul- 
tivated, narrow headlands, the edge of the boundary-ditch set 
with cabbage all round the field ; a thrifty plan, common in 
this district : these were doing well. 
Fourteen acres: 10 potatoes, 2 swedes, and 2 mangolds thinned. 
These were suffering lor want of singling. 
Three acres of f iolden Drop Wheat, poor small heads. 
Three acres of the same ; a fair good crop, next the house. 
Four acres of potatoes after wheat ; a very good crop. 
One acre Myatt's Kidneys, injured by frost. 
The tenant and his family are all doing the best they can for 
