Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire in 1888 : Glass 1. 545 
them for a short time, and the calamities which occasionally 
befall those who are forced to sell at a time of full supplies 
between the two periods of turnips and grass feeding are thus 
avoided. The sheep get daily ^ lb. cake and i lb. oats, besides 
hay chaff and malt dust. The turnips are cut for the sheep in 
November, and given in unlimited quantities. 
Mr. Machin has a capital stock of both Berkshire and 
Lincoln pigs, of which he sells some both pure and crossed at 
good prices. Bacon also is sold. The Berkshire pigs are 
killed for the house and packed in salt, the bottom pieces being 
brought to the top, and vice versa, once a month. The bacon is 
then hung up to dry before packing in oats, where it is said to 
keep very sweet, dry, and good for any possible length of time, 
and the oats are not injured by the pi'ocess. 
Fowls are a most important item of the live stock of the 
Forest Farm. The return from them last year was 671., but 
probably next year it will be much more, because of the great 
success of a new incubator by Hearson and Christie, which 
has replaced a very inferior one previously used. This very 
capital artificial mother had hatched off 500 chickens in eai'ly 
July as fast as it could act, and without a check of any kind, 
and all of them were the very picture of health and thrift. 
The temperature is regulated by a most ingenious self-acting 
arrangement, which shuts off the heat when a proper degi'ee of 
it is reached, and thus obviates the great danger which besets 
most incubators. The young chickens are generally fed with 
wheat dari and oats, and those of early spring are sold for 
5s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. a pair. In the autumn and winter they make 
7d. a lb. to private customers in Nottingham, and the breed is 
so good that 16 lbs. is not an uncommon weight for a couple of 
them. The eggs are supplied from seven fowl-houses on wheels, 
which have been made at home from old carts or vans, and 
boarded in and properly fitted for the laying hens. Each con- 
tains when desired a separate breed, or a cross between them, of 
50 or so in number, and the houses are drawn from field to field 
about the farm, to secure the healthiness of a new run, and to 
give the fowls an opportunity of living principally upon the 
worms or insects which are useless or injurious to the farmer. 
As the fields are cleared after harvest, of course they are taken 
to pick up the leavings there. The eggs are gathered by the 
younger sons before and after school. A favourite cross is 
Plymouth Rock with Langslian or Dorking. The pigeons yield 
19Z. a year, besides seven loads of manure frcm them and the 
fowls, which is also carefully treasured for the roots. 
Upon the premises there is a place for everything and every- 
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