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The Farm Prize Competition o/1891. 
doing well on swedes, with ^ lb. linseed cake and cut clover. 
Mr. Merryweatlier feeds them off as fast as lie can, and then 
buys others in the spring for the seeds, which when ready are 
treated likewise. 
About 33 head of cattle were kept in the yards, consisting 
of a very useful Shorthorn bull, 14 cows or heifers in milk or in 
calf, 4 bullocks feeding, and 15 others, including several calves 
which were being reared at the house upon the old milk. 
Butter is usually made and sold in tlie neighbourhood, a 
little new milk being sometimes fetched from the door at three- 
pence per quart. 
Five horses are kept for the farm, including one filly two 
years old. 
In the stackyard a very good Dutch barn, 84 feet by 30 feet, 
had been erected by the landlord at a cost of about 1301., the 
tenant agreeing to pay interest at 6 per cent. 
The fallow land was all in very good order, and on one 
piece, which was most beautifully ridged, a very good piece of 
swedes and two acres of mangel were waiting to be singled. 
Wheat, except one corner of a field which had turned out 
with the frost, looked very well. The oats and barley had evi- 
dently suffered from the long-continued dry weather, and would 
no doubt have been better with a more genial spring. 
A good crop of clover and rye-grass would be ready to mow 
in a short time. It is customary to sow a little nitrate of soda 
in one corner of the field, which is mown every day for use in 
the yards, the rye-grass being much increased thereby, whilst 
the clover certainly looked darker for it, and the tenant was sure 
of a heavier cut. At any rate a great weight was grown per 
acre, and considerably scoured some young beasts in the yard,- 
perhaps from the over succulence produced by the nitrate of 
Boda. 
Large quantities of manure are fetched from Rotheifham, 
and used on the swedes and mangel at the rate of 12 to 14 
loads per acre, together with 3 cwt. bone dust and 2 cwt. of 
mineral superphosphate. Linseed and cotton-cake were used 
to the extent of loOZ. -worth in the year 1890-91, also about 
300 bushels of ground corn of various sorts. 
Two pieces of good permanent grass are, one of them near 
home, used to turn the cows and heifers into, whilst the other 
at a little distance has a few two-year-old bullocks grazing, as 
well as the horses at night. 
5Iore than 20 acres of the stronger portion of the farm have 
been at different periods during the last six years sown with 
permanent grass seeds, some mth mixtures supplied by the 
