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The Farm Prize Competition o/ 1891. 
Class I. — First Pbize Farm, 
Occupied by Mr. Teasdale H. Hidcldnson, The Manor House, 
CattericJc, Richmond. 
The honour of gaining the First Prize in the Farm Compe- 
tition of the Royal Agi-icultural Society of England is a great 
distinction, which any one might covet ; but on this occasion 
Mr. Hutchinson holds the proud and unique position of taking 
the prize for the second time. 
Eight years ago, in 1883, when the Royal Show was held at 
York, a portion of the present holding, which has been in the 
family's hands more than fifty years, obtained a similar honour 
to that now gained. Since that date 350 acres have been taken 
from the same landlord, Sir John Lawson, Bart., of Brough 
Hall, Catterick, and as the boundary fences were conterminous, 
the whole 600 acres have the appearance of having been under 
one management all the time. The newer portion was taken in 
1888 only, so about one-fourth of the arable land has in its turn 
to go through Mr. Hutchinson's drastic mill ; and when once it 
has passed through his fingers, explanations that he has only had 
'this portion or that for four or five years are neither made nor 
required. 
Absolutely clean is a verdict one scarcely likes to pass as a 
sentence on a farm, but here we give it. Yet, as every rule has 
an exception, so it was in this case, for the senior Judge, after 
dragging his colleague over miles of fallows, at last found one 
solitary piece of twitch, and, holding it up, sarcastically asked 
what it was. Great was his discomfiture when the competitor 
with ready wit invited him to find another. 
The Manor House was reached after a long drive of twelve 
miles from Northallerton through that world-famed country, 
containing such names as Warlaby and Bainesse and others, 
the homes of the Booths and the Outhwaites, at once the very 
cradle and meridian of a tribe of Shorthorns which has spread 
over the whole world. 
We were promptly conducted through a perfect maze of 
buildings, the geography of which was not well learned after 
three visits ; the plans of the greater portion of them are given 
in a former Journal.' 
Mr. Hutchinson has now spent upwards of 2,500/. in im- 
proving, altering, and building on his landlord's premises, without 
any security, and even without any agreement. These additions 
ape all carried out in the most substantial and permanent style, 
I Vol, XIX. s,s. 1883, Part U. p. 557. 
