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The Faim Prize Competition o/1891. 
grass, and a small quantity of lye-grass. A nice plant was also 
showing amongst the spring corn. 
The grass land near the house, before mentioned, is most 
useful and of good quality, no doubt much of it being a deposit 
left by the overflow of the river Don in past generations ; but 
vast sums have been spent here by modern engineers, and to a 
great extent have prevented the floods, which until a few years 
ago rendered some of the streets of Doncaster impassable, and 
periodically covered miles of country just beyond the Great North 
Eoad. 
Besides a small home paddock or two, a large grass field 
adjoins Cuswortli — about 38 acres, in which were running 42 
steers and heifers, of various sorts and sizes, nearly all of which 
had been bred or reared on the farm. Great improvement had 
been made here, by tearing ut^ old fences, putting drains in, 
and sowing down five acres with two quarters Penistone hay seeds, 
and seven pounds mixed clover seeds per acre with rape. After 
five years this portion compared favourably with the old grass. 
The live stock in January consisted of 18 horses, 58 cattle, 
354) sheep, and 34 pigs. 
Useful horses were working the farm, and two are sold each 
year if possible. 
The cattle, which were not a very even lot, were being kept 
in store condition, ready to turn out in summer, calves being 
bred and reared in very nice pens not too far from the kitchen, 
and thus convenient for the disposal of the old milk. 
The sheep are many of them bought, seventy-seven Lincoln 
ewes only being lambed on the place, and these with others were 
running in the seeds. They were a good lot of sheep altogether, 
bat numbers both of the ewes and lambs being lame, their 
appearance was a little spoiled. In spring some remarkably 
good hogs were being sold off" the swedes, and were many of 
them of great weight. » 
]\[rs. Townend ably assists with the reai'ing of the calves, 
and with the dairy ; but very low prices are made for the butter. 
A little milk is sold at elevenpence per imperial gallon on 
Sundays to accommodate a neighbour, and it was thought, 
being so near Doncaster, and having good grass, that a great 
addition might be made to the income by running milk into the 
town every day. 
Mr. Townend is a cattle dealer as well as a farmer, attending 
"Wakefield market every Wednesday, and the profits on this 
part of the business have no doubt been, laid out for some years in 
the great improvements made on the farm, especially the better 
portion, to which the tenant seems to give his chief attention. ' 
