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the farm, and though the land cannot be called first class, it 
responds fairly well to their good management. 
There are 30 acres of outlying land of very poor quality. 
Eight acres of oats was a poor crop. Fourteen acres of second- 
year's seeds cleared of hay had a good bottom, and looked 
wonderfully well ; and the same may be said of 8 acres of 
first-year's seeds. 
Class II. — Highly Commended. 
3Ir. Hugh Ainscough, Banks, Southport. 
Arable 46 acres. 
Grass 6 „ 
Total .. .. 52 „ 
This farm is held on a yearly tenancy, and is on the same 
estate as Mr. Brade's, which it joins ; it is the same class of 
peat-land. Mr. Ainscough won the First Prize of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of England for Small Farms in 1877. 
The present tenant has been here for 36 years, and is under 
no restrictions as to cultivation. Rent, 126/. ; tithe, 9Z. ^. 
Live-stock.— 
3 Carthorses. 
1 „ colt, rising 3 years. 
Cattle . . 12 cows. 
Pigs . . 32, in different stages of fatting. 
The cows are a very good class. Hitherto they have not 
been put to the bull, but milked and fatted. For the future, 
however, the tenant intends to bull the best cows, and to put 
them out to keep until down calving. All the milk is sold in 
Southport, twice a day, at 2^d. per quart for the three summer 
months, and at 2^d. for the other nine months. 
Mr. Ainscough remarked: " If I bring a cow back from the 
market without a good bag, it is like going to pay mv rent 
without my purse." The cows are fed on Indian meal, grains, 
and bran, and sometimes cut chaff and Ion? hay, according to 
the season, and the time the roots last, and all looked like 
paying their share of rent. 
The pigs are a good lot, mostly fat; they are fed on refuse 
biscuits, costing 6s. for 240 lbs., Indian meal, and potatoes. 
Pork is selling at b\d. per lb. The tenant thinks this a gooi 
trade. 
Labour. — Three men board in the house, and two sleep there ; 
2 Q 2 
