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generous allowances of artificial foods, are sent in carts. The 
sheep in winter are also fed in precisely the same manner. 
The land is heavy with a clay subsoil, and all the roots — 
entirely swedes — are drawn and clamped for carriage at leisure 
to the pulping and mixing houses. Of these there are two, one 
at the home and one at the field premises, and a fixed engine at 
each does this work and all the chaffing and grinding. A large 
portion of the corn grown on the farm is fed to the stock, and does 
not figure in the enormous outlay given under this head. The 
grass land is of an inferior character, some of it being much 
given to hassocks, and this, it was plain, would be of very little 
feeding value without the amount of artificial food which is used 
upon it. The occupation is just on the borders of Leicester- 
shire, and the local six-course rotation of cropping is adopted 
upon it, viz., turnips, barley, seeds, seeds, oats, and w^heat. The 
swedes were good, as they had need to be for the mouths they 
had to feed ; a sixth of 228 acres not being a very large area 
of them. The com crops looked promising, without being so 
extremely heavy as might have been expected from the rich 
droppings of so many highly fed animals, which, as the land 
was nicely clean, does not perhaps say very much for the in- 
herent qualities of the soil. 
The produce of the 70 cows is manufactured into Leicester 
cheeses of very good quality. In the course of initiation into 
some of the mysteries of this art, a great effort was persever- 
ingly made, with the cheerful if not very exact assistance of 
Mr. Faux, to amve at the gross return per cow per annum 
from a good example of it, in order to compare the results with 
those from the sale of milk and of butter. With no really 
precise figures to guide one but the number of the cows, and the 
total weight of marketed cheese, it is to be feared that only an 
approximate estimate was obtained from our laboured efforts. 
The inquiry was rather complicated by a numbei» of difficulties 
concerning some milk used for other purposes, &c., and chiefly 
by the uncertain value of the waste or secondary products of 
cheese manufacture. However, the conclusion ultimately evolved 
was that Mr. Faux s cows, which are good milkers for pedigree 
animals — if the writer may be forgiven an apparent but of 
course unintentional reflection — yielded him 12/. per cow be- 
sides a valuable calf. One of the Judges who sends his milk 
to London was of opinion that he obtained IM. 10s. per cow 
by this means, also irrespective of the calf. Too many people 
are conversant with average yields of butter per cow to make 
any estimate of it at all necessary. But the cheese-maker 
has one important point in his favour which must not be 
