NottinghamsJiire and Lincolnshire in 1888 : Glass 1. 527 
supplement to the above, came lOl. in money, 30 stones of bacon, 
40;?. in lieu of beer, and 25s. for candles for each boarder j^er 
head. Good services are said to be obtained, as they ought, in 
return for this good paying and high feeding, and the convenience 
of having so much help always on the spot, and available for 
Sundays or any emergency, is considered to be very great. 
Cow Allotments. — There are villages in Lincolnshire with as 
many as forty or more cottages which are let to farm-labourers, 
together with two grass fields, in the following way. One of 
the fields is divided by permanent marks into equal-sized allot- 
ments, each cottage having one of them. Each man mows his 
own plot for hay, and when made the farmer is bound to lead it 
to the home of the labourer who works for him. Here it is 
stacked for the consumption in the winter of his cow, kept in a 
shed on the premises. ]\Ieanwhile, as the hay is growing and 
making, the cows graze all together in the second field, which is 
held in- common by all the cottagers, until the aftermath of the 
allotment field is fit for stocking in the same manner. There 
are in all about 3^ acres per man of the allotment, and a share 
of the grazed field. About \0l. a year is given for a house with 
these advantages, and half an acre of garden ground in addition. 
The men club together to effect an insurance on their animals, 
by which means the loss of one of them is effectually met, and 
no resort is made to the objectionable practice of begging with 
a brief. If a calf is run on the cow 15s. extra is paid for the 
summer. Formerly houses with cow runs were much appre- 
ciated and sought after, but now, with butter occasionally at 7d. 
a pound, the opportunity is not looked upon in quite the same 
light. The bulk of the additional work falls on the women, who, 
if they have large families, seem to find it quite hard enough for 
them. 
The universal practice of the sheep-bi-eeders, who naturally 
occupy the higher and lighter lands, seems to be to run ewes 
and lambs together upon the young seeds as soon as the turnips 
are finished. The lambs have no forward fold upon better pas- 
ture, and often get little or no change until weaning-time, which 
is frequently as late as the middle of July or into August. It 
is rare indeed to find vetches or any other early or late catch 
crop provided for them, and consequently a comparatively large 
breadth of what might have been hay is sacrificed to their use. 
At the time of the J uly inspection the seeds were almost everj- 
where so bare that it was a marvel what the sheep found upon 
them. Yet they seemed perfectly contented with their lot, never 
broke bounds, and looked in very fair condition, and the owners 
appeared to suffer none of the apprehensions which under such 
