NottinghamsMre and Lincolnshire in 1888 : Class 1. 561 
paid to diet and other careful treatment than was customarily- 
met with elsewhere. 
The corn crops were good, particularly the wheat after potatoes, 
which was the best that had been seen oS the stiflfer soils. The 
Judge who visited the farm in May was pained to see the num- 
ber of hares which were injuring the crops of so excellent a 
tenant — whose family had occupied the place for four genera- 
tions — and could not forbear some expressions of surprise. Mr. 
Brown was, however, very reticent upon the subject. 
Mr. Faux of Coleorton is a well-known breeder of pedigree 
shorthorn cattle, and at the first visit of the Judges to the farm 
he had selected for competition, out of three in his occupation, 
tliey found upon it the astonishing number of live stock which 
is given in the schedule. It turned out afterwards, however, 
that the entered farm was worked in conjunction with one of 
the unentered ones of 164 acres, which is situated within easy 
distance of the principal homestead. The accounts also of the 
two farms — so far as any at all could properly be said to be 
kept — were inextricably mixed, and no satisfactory figures of 
any kind could therefore be arrived at without taking the two 
farms as one. The number of stock per acre will be found very 
large indeed, even when the extra land is taken into account, 
but not greater, we were assured, than had been previously kept. 
It was clear that such numbers could only be reared and fed by 
the very great outlay on supplemental food, and in labour which 
Mr. Faux seems to think it profitable to expend. All the cattle 
are bred upon the place, and the number given includes a fine 
herd of 70 milking cows, of which several have proved their 
quality, or that of their descendants, in the show yard. 
!Mr. Faux has won several first and second prizes at Birming- . 
ham for young bulls, and out of 15 bull calves which were seen, 
in December, 9 averaged 42Z. each there in the present spring. 
The heifers, of which we saw and greatly admired some capital 
specimens, seem to meet a good home and foreign demand. Price 
is little studied in the purchase of good sires, and all the young 
stock were in admirable condition. Everything, including some 
excellent Tamworth and Yorkshire pigs, not sold for stock pur- 
poses is finished for the butcher. A flock of 143 well-bred 
Shropshire ewes is kept, and the produce grazed on the farm. 
The farm buildings are of the most miserably inadequate 
and ancient description, and old barns and stables and all sorts 
of curious sheds and outhouses are utilised as cover from the 
weather. The overflow from them is wintered more or less in 
the grass fields, which comprise nearly half the area of the 
entered farm, to which pulped roots and chop, together with 
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