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The foregoing Table, respecting wages, is instructive ; but 
it must be borne in mind that an annual outlay of from 50/. to 
60/. per annum has been made on permanent improvements, 
which is included in the total sum paid for labour, and which 
for the future might be dispensed with. 
The general management of the farm is unexceptionable, and 
the returns, both of dairy produce, as shown by Mr. Little's 
Report, which follows, as well as those derived from the other 
resources of the holding, are eminently satisfactory, and could 
only be obtained by a liberal and judicious management ; and 
the Judges had much satisfaction in awarding Mr. Gibbons the 
first prize for dairy farms offered by the Society. 
Notes on the Dairy Management of Tunley Farm.. By E. Little, 
of Lanhill, Chippenham. 
It is to be regretted there was not more competition in this 
class in such an important district for making cheese. There 
were only three farms entered, viz., Mr. George Gibbons, Tunley 
Farm, Bath ; Mr. Robert Alfred Day, Oubley, Bristol ; Mr. Cor- 
nelius Collins, Orchard Leigh, Frome. One would have expected 
at least ten or twelve entries, more especially as the Committee 
of the Cheese Market, established at Frome three years since, 
have annually offered liberal prizes for the best dairies of 
cheese. One would have expected this to stimulate competition 
for prizes for the best managed farms, as well as for the best made 
cheese. Whether it is that the farm-Louses and buildings in 
Somersetshire are somewhat behind the times, and the landlords 
in many instances will not improve them (although there are 
many exceptions), so as to hold out any inducement to the occu- 
piers to exhibit their farms in public competition ; or whether 
the farmers, as a rule, attend more particularly to the manage- 
ment of their dairy-produce than to that of the land from which 
it arises, we cannot say; from whatever cause it proceeds, the 
competition was very meagre, and barely sufficient to admit of 
the second prize being awarded. However, had the competition 
been larger, it is doubtful whether we should have seen any dairy 
farm in Somersetshire better managed than Mr. Gibbons's, both 
with regard to the land and to the process of cheese-making. The 
latter I shall now endeavour to describe ; but at the outset I 
should mention that Mrs. Gibbons is a daughter of Mr. Harding, 
oi Marksbury, whose name is celebrated throughout England 
not only for his own dairy, but for having written valuable papers 
on this subject (see vol. xxi.), and as having been engaged in 
giving instruction in other districts on the art of cheese-making. 
It will not be wondered at, then, that the process is carried on 
