550 The Berkshire Farm Prize Competition, 1882. 
stock plays ah important part in Mr. Adams' management ; on 
the 30th June the numbers were : — 
147 Cows in-calf or in-milk. 
28 Heifers. 
50 Yearlings. 
56 Weaning calves. 
4 Bulls. 
335 Breeding ewes. 
11 Shearling show ewes. 
20 ditto rams. 
167 Ram Iambs. 
168 Ewe lambs. 
1 Two-shear ram. 
24 Working horses and a milk 
horse. 
4 Colts. 
2 Nags. 
4 Sows. 
9 Store pigs. 
1 Boar. 
The cow stock is of high-class dairy Shorthorn character. 
Pure-bred bulls from the herds of Col. Sir R. Loyd Lindsay and 
the late Mr. E. Bowly have been used for many years : all the 
female calves are weaned, and the bull calves are sold at a week 
old at two guineas each. 
The milk delivered twice a day at Faringdon Station finds a 
market in London at 8c?. for the six summer months, and lOJcf. 
for the other half of the year, for 17 pints, from which 2d. per 
barn gallon has to be deducted for carriage. The milk is cooled 
by passing oVer Lawrence's refrigerators. Occasionally all the 
milk cannot be disposed of; it is then sent to Hatton's Farm, 
where Mr. Adams has a most excellent cheese-making plant, 
and last year 57/. worth was produced and sold, 32/. was also 
realised for butter, while the sale of milk amounted to 1674/. 
In the winter the milking cows get three pounds each of cotton- 
cake, pulped mangolds mixed with straw-chafF in the morning, 
and an allowance of hay at night. After calving, the cake is 
increased to four pounds, chaff and mangolds are given as 
before, and as much hay as the cows care for. They are kept 
during the winter in yards with a roomy shed in each, and 
straw is economised by littering only the sheds and a narrow 
width under the fences. At about the fourth calf the cows are 
sold off as London dairy beasts. 
The management of the bulls is admirable, and too little 
practised in these modern days. These powerful animals are 
constantly used for hauling on the farm, geared precisely as 
horses except the bit. They are yoked in an ordinary farm cart, 
and do all the carting of fodder, roots, (Sec, are perfectly docile 
at work, and much more prolific than when stalled up from 
month to month. 
At Sir R. Loyd Lindsay's sale in May last year, Mr. Adams 
was the purchaser of two pure-bred roan yearling Shorthorn 
heifers, from which he hopes to breed bulls for use in his large 
herd. 
