580 
Hie Farm Prize Competition 0/ 1891. 
to Ms cost, !Mr. Strickland's piece de resistance is the pig, and 
a great portion of the above mixed farming, and very many of 
the building?, are subservient to the raising of pedigree pigs for 
sale for stock purposes. These are constantly being sent abroad 
to Germany, Sweden, France, Canada, and South America, besides 
our own countr}-. 
During our visits we usually saw something approaching 140 
pigs of all kinds, consisting of 80 Large White sows. 20 Middle 
White breed, and 10 Berkshires, 6 boars being kept of the best 
kind that can be got, one just purchased, Thirsk Champion 2Qth, 
costing 21/. Is. Gd. at ten months old. 
Xone of the pigs are sold fat. but merely in store condition ; 
six were going in June to Germany at 6 guineas each ; indeed, 
although the Judges thought rather too many were kept, Mr. 
Strickland manasres to sell nearly all as fast as they can be 
grown to a breeding age. 
Prizes altogether, but chiefly for pi^, have been won since 
1874 to the value of 4.326/., the sales of pigs alone in 1889 
amounting to 1,363/. 18s. Ud., and in 1890 to 1,980/. 
Class III. — Second Pbize Fabm, 
Occupied hy Jfr. William Walsh, Gilstead, near Bindley. 
This tenant, who has been on his holding about twenty 
years, renting it principally from Mr. F. S. Powell, M.P.. of 
Horton Hall. Bradford, makes milk his chief source of income, 
and rightly so, as living only one mile from Bingley, or less, 
there appears to be no difficulty in finding a good wholesale 
customer, who fetches it twice daily from the door, at eight- 
pence per gallon. Thus, railway rates, terminals, and the 
chance of missing the early morning milk train, are not 
troublesome points for the consideration of Mr. "Walsh. 
About 3u useful cows are generally kept. 24 of them in 
milk ; the rest are either being dried off previous to calving, 
or are a small lot of purchased ones, which seem to be continu- 
ally coming on to the farm, firstly to keep up the guarantee of 
40 gallons per day, and secondly to turn an honest penny by 
the sale of a good one now and then at a profit for the few weeks* 
keep. 
Two had thus been sold on our third visit for 27/. and 23/. 
10s., and a very good type of animal they were, especially the- 
former ; a few such cows would improve many a herd. 
A good Shorthorn bull is kept, and the present one has 
shown his quality by taking a third prize at the recent Otley 
show, 
