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a sufficiency of permanent pasture with good or useful corn- 
growing soils, rather than an excess of either in the hands of 
any one man or district, which, far better than any other arrange- 
ment, enables the best to be made of them both. 
The Lincolnshire ricks are a too prominent feature in the 
landscape to pass unnoticed. The amount of skill and patience 
elaborated upon tlieir architecture is no doubt an index of many 
good qualities in both master and workman, and the example 
might well be useful to the stackers of other and bordering 
counties, where this work is often done in a most slovenly and 
shamefully ineffective manner. At the same time, in a country 
of such fickle climate as ours, and where the late men often get 
so severely punished in the last days of their harvest, speed in 
rick-building is after all a very practical consideration, and the 
very high and steep roofs of a Lincolnshire corn-stack, to say 
nothing of other evidences of excessive care, may excusably 
be thought to delay the harvest operations rather more than 
some people would admit to be wise or necessary. 
The farm waggons of the average or perhaps older type of 
the locality are of awkward and clumsy appearance to the 
stranger, and must be a very fair load for one horse without 
anything whatever upon them. 
The single labourers, or the team-men, are now mostly 
boarded by the foreman in an adjacent cottage, instead of in 
the farmhouse as formerly. The Judges had several opportunities 
of inspecting the houses of these foremen, and were much 
struck with their projDortions and conveniences. Extreme 
cleanliness everywhere pi-evailed within them, as well as much 
evident effort on the part of the housekeepers to promote the 
comfort and well-being of their lodgers. The well-stocked 
larders, with their goodly quantities of beef and mutton, are 
supplemented by the resources of the bacon room, wherein 
are hung the well-cui-ed sides of those monsters of the sty 
which have been noticed before. The- wages of the boarders 
vary from 91. to 18?. each, according to age and capacity. 
The foreman seems to have a pretty good time so far as this 
world's goods are concerned. One of these men on a farm we 
inspected — and probably the case is fairly typical, although no 
doubt there is considerable variation — received first of all 301. 
yearly in money — a sort of foundation of the agreement appa- 
rently, on which was subsequently built tlie following additional 
receipts : House and garden rent free ; all the potatoes required 
for the household ; the produce of two cows kejit at the master's 
expense ; 30 stones of bacon ; 40s. in lieu of beer ; and 20s. 
per calf reared to the age of three months. Then, in further 
