J7te Fam Prize Compeliiion 0/1891. 
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Very liberal rations are given to force the supply of milk, 
both summer and winter, this being necessitated by the large 
number of stock of all kinds. When the cows are out at gfrass 
(at the rate of one per acre) food is added as follows : ^ bushel 
grains, 7 lb. bean or pea meal, and, early in spring to prevent 
looseness, 2^ lb. cotton cake per head. 
In winter, besides long hay ad libitum in the racks, six or 
eight good swedes are given three times per day, whole ; also 
J bushel grains, 7 lb. bean or pea meal, and 2^ lb. linseed, 
cotton, or a well-known mixed cake, the latter being varied 
according to the yield of milk. 
A small quantity of locust meal is purchased as a condiment 
for an ailing cow when required. Milk is consumed in larger 
quantities on certain days of the week, as much is required to 
make bread, and good bread is made in almost every home 
around Bingley, new milk being greatly used, not so much 
in preference to old, but that the latter cannot be obtained. 
Mr. "Walsh's daughter was cross-questioned upon this interest- 
ing point, with the result that Bingley and its neighbourhood 
were considered a good field for the sale of separated milk, 
which, as is proved very largely in Scotland, makes good 
bread. 
The sheep kept by !Mr. AYalsh upon his farm were certainly 
a curiosity, if nothing else, to unaccustomed eyes, the bams 
being divided into pens, and occupied by great old Lonk and 
Leicester rams, and a few gimmers of the latter breed. Out 
on the pastures 42 ewes were running with 59 lambs, all cross 
bred in some way or other, and being pushed on with the help 
of linseed cake, pease, and split maize, all being expected to be 
sold as fat lamb. 
Eight prizes had been taken at the Otley show for sheep ; 
indeed, a clothes-basketful of cards was on view, a few special 
Windsor ones hanging on the walls. 
Nearly all the grass land on the farm has been laid down 
during the present tenure, with 8 to 1 2 bushels of Penistone 
hay seed, and 15 lb. of mixed clover per acre, then liberally 
manured by the use of 50 or GO tons of sud-cake manure per 
annum ; also on some of the fields 4 tons of lime per acre at 
intervals of six or seven years. This and the large quantity of 
purchased foods combine to much improve the new grass, which 
had a nice bottom, and was full of clover. 
The four-course system is followed on the arable land, oats 
being grown after the seeds, and not wheat. Swedes, to draw 
off, entirely occupy the fallows, manured with heavy dressings 
fetched 5i miles from the stables of Bradford, 2s. 6d. per cart 
