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The Farm Prize Compeiitmi o/189l. 
Januaiy the stock was all housed, with the exception of one 
small open yard, much surrounded bj buildings, and very warm, 
.containing 8 or 10 nice bullocks; and this was on the new por- 
tion of fhe farm, where every yard has been attacked and roofed 
in, besides a geneaal pointing up and repaii', which must have 
cost the tenant a good round sum. 
A most useful and commodious shed, with a small cake store 
a±_ the end, was just completed, at some considerable distance 
from the homestead, and will prove convenient either as shelter 
in lambing time or for cattle in summer, besides being an ad- 
junct to the large arable field on the boundaries of which it is 
built. Dutch barns are much advocated by Mr. Hutchinson, a 
large one, 55 yards long, having still large stores of hay in it. A 
smaller one, 18 feet high, was nearly finished in June, and. being 
boarded on one side, would perhaps be of use for stock at times 
as well as for hay. The cost of the above was 120?. and 30?. re- 
spectively. 
The requirements of a large head of stock necessitate the 
almost continuous help of steam for chaff-cutting, pulping. &c,, 
and the arrangement of the numerous and varied machines, with 
their different convenient stores for chaff, com, meals, &c., was 
most admirable. 
An eight-horse portable engine is at work every day in 
winter, and the driver deserves praise for the condition in which 
it is kept, the glands and bearings being in perfect order, and 
running as noiselessly as if fresh from the works. 
The threshing machine, which is semi-fixed, is so arranged as 
to deliver and weigh up the corn in the barn, besides getting rid 
of the straw and refuse with the smallest amount of labour, which 
ia the case also with the chaff-cutting, pulping and gi-inding of 
the com. all for mixing in varying proportions for the stock in 
the yards and boxes contiguous. 
Two large chaff cutters, one for horses the other for cattle, a 
pulper, a pair of stones, a crusher that will sei-ve for either oats 
or linseed, a cake breaker, hoists, a saw table, and a grindstone, 
make up a list more for a factory than for a farm, and all are 
worked by the engine. The waste steam is not lost, but is led 
by a pipe and used to cook some of the food for the stock. More 
expensively erected sets of barn machinery may be seen, but for 
completeness and usefulness nothing better can be wanted. 
The land is a little varied, but consists mainly of a nice work- 
able loam, mixed in some places nearer the river Swale with a 
perfect covering of round stones, tons of which have been removed, 
only to make room for more. A portion stronger than the rest, 
and at the far end of the farm, has been laid down to grass with 
