546 Somersetshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1875. 
afterwards split back to cover the manure. The ridges are 
somewhat more than 2 feet apart, and the seed is sown upon 
them with the liquid-manure drill, and 5 cwt. of bone super- 
phosphate. 
A few vetches are occasionally grown before swedes. They 
are either consumed by the working horses, or by the cattle or, 
the pastures. 
Seeds are sown on the surface with the spring cereals. A 
mixture of 10 lbs. of broad clover, 4 lbs. of white Dutch, 3 lbs. 
plantain, and 1 bushel of Italian rye-grass is used. The seeds 
are mown the first year, grazed the second, and broken up early 
and the land prepared for the succeeding crop. 
Live Stock on Ouhley Farm. 
48 dairy cows. 
8 two-year-old heifers. 
10 yearling heifers. 
1 old bull. 
1 yearling bull. 
Four working horses, one 2-year-old colt, and about 50 pigs 
•of all sizes. 
At the winter inspection we found the dairy cows all out, and 
the winter beans and wheat well put in. The following spring 
visit enabled us to see some very good and clean crops of beans, 
some very fair wheat, the mangolds well sown, and a few 
acres in course of preparation for swedes after vetches. The 
last of the vetches were being mown off, and a good crop had 
been removed. The dairy cows were out on the pastures, and 
looked all that could be desired, while the young stock were 
very promising. 
Stock. — The dairy cows are Somersetshire Shorthorns. They 
have been carefully bred for their dairy qualifications, and have 
•every appearance of being a fine herd of milking cows. They 
■calve from the end of March to the beginning of Al.'iy, and their 
•calves are removed from them at a few days old and sold. 
About 10 heifer-calves remain with their mothers for nine or ten 
days, and are then reared bv hand. These go to the bull at 
15 months old, and replace the aged cows in the dairy as they 
are drafted out. The dairy cows are dried about ten weeks 
before calving. They are fed in the winter on a small quantity 
of roots, brewers' grains, a limited allowance of linseed-cake, 
witli a little meal and chaff, and some hay. They do not come 
into the buildings in the winter until about calving, as there is 
jiot sufficient room for the whole of them. 
