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lengths of ordinary firemen's hose are kept coiled up near the 
house for fixing to a convenient hydrant, whence there is 
pressure enough to send the water to any part of the buildings. 
The arrangement would of course be of great service in any out- 
break of fire, and pending this it is turned to a great variety of 
practical purposes. 
Mr. Machin keeps no very elaborate accounts, and, therefore, 
could produce no exactly stated balance-sheet. All sales and 
purchases are, however, carefully recorded, and they, as well as 
other figures which were given, will be found in the schedule of 
all such particulars. No accounts were forthcoming of any 
previous years, but there was offered in other forms the most 
ample evidence to show that Mr. Machin has no reason what- 
ever of a pecuniary kind to regret his choice of a business, hard 
times notwithstanding. 
Second Peize Farm. 
Occupied by Mr. William Machin, Papplewich, Nottingham. 
The Fii'st and Second Prize-men, rather curiously, are 
brothers, living in the same parish, and their methods of cropping 
and tilling their land, of buying and feeding their stock, in fact 
of management generally, are so very similar, that having entered 
rather minutely into the jDractices of Mr. Curtis Machin, it 
would be in great part a needless repetition to give the whole of 
those of Mr. W. Machin. 
In speaking of the latter, therefore, where nothing is said to 
the contrary, it is to be assumed that his pi'actice is the same as 
that which has been already described. 
Mr. W. Machin occupies a good modern house, which, how- 
ever, is situated too much at one corner of a rather straggling 
farm, and too near the village street, for quite an ideal position. 
But certainly the number and the conveniences for stock 
and crop afforded by his premises are enough to excite the 
admiration and envy of many of his less fortunate brethren. 
Thus, besides home premises, he has two sets of conveniently 
situated field-buildings, with a substantial and commodious 
Dutch barn at each of them ; and there are two Dutch barns at 
home. Then there are no less than six covered yards for his 
grazing beasts, three at home and three at the off-premises, 
each of an average area of about 25 yards by 20. At two out of 
the three sets of premises there are fixed engines for chaffing the 
straw, pulping the roots, and grinding the cake. At the third, 
a mill for grinding the corn is driven in addition by water from 
a fine stream which runs through some of the meadows. All 
