554 TJie Berkshire Farm Prize Competition, 1882. 
grass, 8 lbs. of cow-clover, and 41bs. each of giant Dutch and 
alsike per acre. 
The land for mangolds is well ploughed in the autumn, 
scarified and cleaned in the spring, receives a heavy manuring of 
farmyard dung, and 2 cwt. each of Proctor and Ryland's super- 
phosphate and salt sowed broadcast. The seed is Sutton's yellow- 
fleshed, and Webb's intermediate, drilled in rows 2 feet apart. 
As swedes and white turnips are taken after the fold, they get 
the artificial only, as above. Carter's prize, and Sutton's Cham- 
pion swedes are the kinds grown, with 31bs. of seed per acre. 
The root-crops are regular and healthy, and quite clean. 
The farm is this year cropped as follows :— 26 acres wheat, 
60^ barley, 28J oats, 8 peas, 10 rye, 19|^ mangold, 10 swedes, 
5 turnips, 27 grass first year, 26 grass second year, 43 acres 
meadow mown for hay, and 60 grazed. 
Nearly the whole of the live-stock is bred on the farm, a few 
calves being bought for weaning. The cattle are neat useful 
Shorthorns, and the milk is disposed of by dairying and calf- 
weaning. The flock is a cross-bred one, and the pigs really 
good Berkshires. The farm-horses are Avell kept, clean-limbed, 
serviceable animals, and very active. Poultry is reared in con- 
siderable numbers, and made to contribute towards the house- 
hold expenses. On the 22nd April the live-stock stood thus : — 
12 Fatting Beasts. 
8 Milking Cows. 
4 In-Calf Heifers, 
10 Two-year-old. 
22 Yearlings. 
23 Weaning Calves. 
2 Bulls. 
154 Fatting Sheep. 
126 Ewes. 
158 Lambs. 
3 Rams. 
6 Sows and 1 Boar. 
28 Pigs. 
9 Working-horses. 
1 Breeding-mare. 
5 Colts and 1 Nag:. 
Cattle, sheep, and pigs are all fed for the butcher before 
leaving the farm, and in this way the average sale of stock for 
the past three years has realised one thousand and forty pounds, 
and the amount of stock bought in each year has been one 
hundred and twenty pounds. 
Labour on the farm is done at a cheap rate, costing 28s. an 
acre. This, in a great measure, may be attributed to the active 
part taken in the work by Mr. Davies and his sons. 
The wages of ordinary labourers are 12s. a week ; carters and 
stockmen get from 13s. to 14s., with a cottage rent free, and 3Z. 
extra for the harvest, with beer, or its equivalent in money, at 
the rate of 6rZ. a day. 
Two hundred and ninety pounds was the expenditure last 
year for cake and corn consumed, and 36Z. for artificial manures. 
