Somersetshire Farm-Prize Competition, 1875. 573 
Stock ox Captox Farm, 
Xovember, 1874. 
May 19th and July, 1875. ; 
Cattle. 
10 
10 
2-year old heifers in-calf 
4 
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Cfllves 
10 
Yearling bull 
1 
Bulls 
2 
Total 
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53 
Sheep. 
Sheep. 
200 
Stock ewes (and 21G lambs) 
170 
70 
Draft ewes (and 10 lambs) . . 
9 
100 
82 
10 
26 
26 
Pigs. 
Pigs. 
1 
1 
3 
7 
Horses. 
HOKSES. 
8 
8 
Colts rising 3 years, sometimesl 
2 
1 
7 
7 
1 
1 
Cattle. — The herd of cattle is of the pure Devon breed. The 
calves are dropped in the winter, beginning in jNovember, and 
are weaned at three months old, when their mothers go into the 
dairy. Dairying is not here made a speciality. The cows are 
not let separately to a dairyman, neither is any cheese made, the 
farm being unsuitable for its production. The cream is scalded 
in the Devonshire manner and made into butter. The calves 
are allowed \ lb. of cake and meal when weaned, and run out 
their first summer. On coming into the yards again the steers 
have the corn increased to 4 lbs. each with roots, and they are 
brought out fat at two years old at an average weight of 8 scores 
per quarter. The heifers go to the bull under two years old, and 
take their place in the dairy as the older cows are fatted out, the 
latter making 10 scores per quarter. Most of the roots given to 
the cattle are pulped, and the allowance of cake and corn is 
increased up to 8 lbs. for finishing the feeding stock, and for 
