584 
TJie Farm Prize Competitioyi 0/ 1891. 
About 40 ewes were running on the grass-land at our 
first visit, but in June they and their 54 lambs were mixed 
with about 70 more belonging to and purchased for the new 
farm adjoining. The original stock was a cross between a 
Border Leicester and a Cheviot. 
The arable land, so strong and uninviting, does not look 
in very good condition, the oats in some places having gi-ubbed, 
so that the system followed, of cropping the land as well as 
possible once round and then sowing do\vn to grass, is no doubt 
the best way out of the difficulty. It is easy to believe that 
the place has much improved during the present tenure of six 
years. 
Class III. 
The remaining farm in Class III. is situated at Barmborougli, 
near Doncaster, and is occupied by Mr. Samuel Kent, who must 
be much troubled by the widely scattered fields, not to speak of 
tbe strong tenacious clay soil which he has to fight against. The 
land was not quite so clean in some places as it should have 
been, although an excellent plant of swedes was just becoming 
ready for the hoe. Some of the corn also was a good crop. 
A piece of oats and peas mixed looked like yielding plenty 
of grain, and if only it can be harvested in fine weather, a con- 
stant supply of oat and pea straw will be available for chopping 
during the winter, than which nothing can be nicer. 
A very good yearling Shire colt was running in the home 
paddock, but Mr. Kent was not quite sure if he could get it into 
the stud-book. 
A few cows are kept, and butter is sold ; calves are reared 
also, but being so near a large mining population, better 
returns might be made by the regular supply of new milk, which 
Beems to command a good price in the neighbourhood. 
Mr. Kent by hard work makes a living on this unghiteful 
soil, and the Judges could only wish he had a better and more 
compact holding. 
Conclusion. 
The above short account of the different farms Cannot be 
closed without recording the thanks of the Judges to each 
competitor for his kindness in giving them every assistance in 
their pleasant if somewhat hard work, and they now know by the 
great hospitality they received what is meant by a real " York- 
shire welcome."' 
W. C. Biiowx. 
