566 Somersetshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1875. 
farmjard-manure is left on the premises for the benefit of the 
incoming tenant. 
House and Buildings. — The house is in the village of Capton, 
towards the lower end of the holding ; and is sufficiently large for 
the farm. The buildings adjoin ; they are ancient, and not par- 
ticularly well arranged ; but they have been improved and made 
the most of by the present occupier, who since the commencement 
of his tenancy has expended 300Z. on the premises in building, 
troughing, conveyance and arrangement of water supply, drain- 
age of yards, &c., the materials for these works having all been 
found by him. The cattle are supplied with water in the stalls 
in conveniently placed small iron drinking-cisterns. The supply 
of water is continuous, being regulated by ball-cocks in the 
larger tanks erected for the stock in the yards, and these derive 
their complement from the drainage of the land above the road. 
The overflow is conveyed, together with the rest of the sur- 
plus water from the roofs and the yards, by means of a 9-incli 
pipe into the meadow on the west of the premises, where it is 
disposed of by gravitation, the steepness of the slope of the 
field facilitating and perfecting the process. A range of open 
cattle-sheds has been built by the occupier. A slate roof 
covers it, as also the barn and adjoining linhay. The rest of 
the building is thatched. There are altogether four yards, and 
stalls sufficient to accommodate about thirty head of cattle. 
The chaff-cutting, pulping, and corn-crushing machinery are 
tolerably conveniently arranged with a view to the distribution 
of food to the yards. The pulping is principally done by horse- 
power, and the threshing, winnowing, chaff-cutting, and grinding 
by a hired portable steam-engine and threshing-machine. 
There are two orchards of nearly 9 acres extent, which pro- 
duce on an average 100 hogsheads of cider per annum. Both 
are well kept ; but the one is so scientifically and perfectly 
planted, that true lines of trees meet the eye from whichever 
direction it may look (see Fig. 8, opposite). 
The appended plan of the farm (Fig. 9, p. 568) will show its 
relative position to the premises, and the alterations that hare 
been carried out. 
Grass Land. — About 20 acres of pasture land are manured 
every year with compost of the usual description, or otherwise 
with dissolved bones and a little nitrate of soda, at a cost of 
from 21s. to 255. per acre. 
A good deal of cake and corn is fed upon the other portions 
of the grazing land by the sheep in the summer. The pastures 
are not mown. 
The meadows are annually manured with compost, or top- 
dressed like the pastures, unless any portion has been extra 
folded with sheep. Exception must be made, however, to some 
