558 Somersetshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1875. 
The hay was making good progress, and the grass land was. 
abundant with herbage. The cattle were all doing well. The 
same remark will apply to the sheep, with the exception of the 
weaned lambs on the clover, which was apparently too gross a 
pasture for them. 
List of Stock on Dillington Farm. 
First Inspection, November, 18t4. 
Dairy cows 21 
Yearling heifers 8 
Calves „ 11 
Devon steers, fattening .. .. 11 
Shorthorn „ 20 
Shorthorn bull 1 
Total 72 
Dorset horn ewes, lambing down 305 
Pur or wether hoggs 174 
Ewe hoggs 184 
Total 663 
Workiag horses 8 
Second and Third Inspections, May 20tli and 
July 9th, 1875. 
Dairy cows 21 
Heifers (going in) $ 
(3-year-old) oxen 22 
Yearling heifers and steers . . . . 20 
Feeding heifers 6 
Calves 15 
Shorthorn bull 1 
Total 88 
Stock ewes 301 
Off old ewes with Down tup .. 116 
Pur or wether lambs 171 
Chilvers or ewe lambs 164 
Fattening sheep 50 
Earns, 3 Dorset Horns, 2 Downs . . 5 
Total 807 
Working horses 8 
Management of Stock. — A system common to parts of the 
county is here carried out with respect to the dairy. The 
dairy, which consists of 21 cows, is let to a dairyman at 14/. 
per cow for the year, a proviso being made that if the 2-year- 
old heifers, which would number about 7, are brought in in 
lieu of more matured cows, a rebate is made, reducing the charge 
to 12/. 10s. per cow per annum. The calves belong to the 
dairyman, but must be reared for the owner, and be well kept on 
skimmed milk and beans ; and at 3 to 2>\ months (towards Mid- 
summer) they are taken to at their value, which is from 3/. to 
5/. each. The increased price realised for a well-looked-after 
calf acts as a stimulus to the dairyman to do justice to the 
rearing. Twenty acres of pasture and 20 acres of aftermath are 
allotted to the dairy by the owner on such portions of the grass 
lands as may be prepared for feeding or for hay. These fields 
are winter-fed by sheep during the months of November to 
January inclusive, before being handed over to the dairyman, 
and the dairy cows are usually turned out to grass on the 5th ol 
