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Good accounts are kept, and a proper balance-sheet was forth- 
coming. 
The farm of Mr. Henson, of Prestivold, is managed throughout 
all its departments in a manner which any man of business 
would unhesitatingly commend, without presenting special fea- 
tures of sufficient interest for detailed description. No accounts 
were forthcoming. 
The farms of Mr. Morley, of Leadeyiham, and Mr. Dyson, of 
Goldthorpe, may be spoken of in very similar terms to the above. 
The former, who is also a land agent, keeps very careful and 
complete accounts, and had evidently effected considerable im- 
provements upon his occupation, particularly to the permanent 
grass.' 
Mr. Martin, of Wainfleet, whose farm was entered for com- 
petition, withdrew from the contest shortly after the first visit 
to him. In this course he was doubtless well advised, having at 
length appreciated the almost insurmountable obstacle which his 
very short tenure — of one year only — must of necessity present 
to his chances of a prize. But for this unfortunate circumstance, 
the Judges would doubtless have had at least one opportunity 
of seeing a well-managed farm of the better Lincolnshire soils. 
Certainly the quality of the stock, their treatment, and all that 
was seen on the first occasion, awakened much anticipation of 
future visits. 
Conclusion. 
It would be very ungi'acious as well as ungrateful to close 
this report without a concluding word of thanks to the com- 
petitors for their generous hospitality, and great readiness to 
assist the Judges in so many helpful ways through their by no 
means easy task. But though farm judging, if at all thorough, 
may fairly be called hard work, it is at the same time certainly 
very interesting, and, what is still better, very instructive. 
Unle 'S the writer and his colleagues are much mistaken, it 
has not often fallen to the lot of their predecessors to find so 
high an average of good management, particularly upon the 
lighter class of soils, as has been, however imperfectly, recorded 
above. Clearly the pluck and enterprise of the British farmer 
are still equal to the measure of his adversities. The very wealth 
of good examples has in fact prevented the selection of any but 
the most prominent features for description, and there was much 
' The Judges had great pleasure in recommending Mr. Morley's farm 
bailiff, Chas. Chapman, Ho the attention of the Society as an old servant of 
twenty-one years, thoroughly reliable and capable in every department of 
his work. 
