Somersetshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1875. 529 
per week ; so that the weekly average cash payments for labour 
?re under 21. 
£. s. 
Total weekly payments for year, exclusive of harvest 88 0 
Additional payments : — - 
Threshing (coal inclusive) 12 6 
Harvesting, cutting and binding (contract) ... 7 15 
Cider, 5 hogsheads at 25s 6 5 
Stockman, cottage, garden, and firing .... 55 
£119 11 
Or about lis. per acre. 
The average weekly wages on the farm the first three years of 
I -occupation was IZ., with other extra items on a proportionately 
ilower scale than at the present time. The outlay for labour 
has therefore doubled within the last ten years. 
The hours of labour are from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M. 
Horses work from 6 A.M. until 2 P.M. without resting. 
The oats are bound up, stacked, and carried by contract, 
the cutting: being- done bv Hornsbv's manual-delivery machine 
by day-work. 
Threshing is accomplished by a hired portable steam- 
threshing machine. 
The Judges considered that Mr. Babbage's farm was well man- 
aged, and had some especial features of interest; and although 
the competition was insufficient for them to award the prize, they 
had great pleasure in finding that the Council readily agreed 
:o their recommendation to do so. 
Class II. — Dairy Faems. 
First Prize Farm. 
TuNLEY Farm, near Bath, in the occupation of Mr. George 
Gibbons, consists of 43 acres of arable land and 155 acres of 
pasture. It is a short distance from the Camerton Collieries, 
about six miles south-west of Bath, and is approached from that 
town through a beautifully undulating and ever-varying country. 
The rapidity of change of the geological formations in some 
parts of Somersetshire is strikingly exemplified on this holding. 
The house and buildings stand towards the north-eastern ex- 
tremity of the farm, on a bank upon which some fifteen acres of 
tlie oolite crops out. Surrounding this as the hill is descended, 
the lias is clearly and abruptly defined. It occupies the larger 
part of the holding, extending across the road to the lower end 
■ol the farm adjoining the canal, where the new red sandstone 
I . comes to the surface on an area of about thirty acres. 
