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on and improve the herd. When Mr. Bathe first occupied 
Winston, he lost in the first year 9 or 10 young animals from 
quarter-evil. He has found putting setons in the breast an entire 
preventive — an experience which we found generally confirmed. 
Mr. Batho told us that 60 gallons of milk in the autumn would 
make 77 lbs. of cheese, because milk is then at its richest, and 
will yield 20 per cent, more produce, either as butter or cheese, 
than during the first flush of grass in spring and early summer ; 
but for the whole season he considered a gallon of milk for 
a pound of cheese was very near the mark. As regards cheese- 
making, Mrs. Batho, whom we should judge to be a proficient 
in the art, described the work as very hard ; and this not so 
much physically as mentally, the responsibility of the dairy- 
maid is so great. It is not pleasant, she observed, when things 
do not go right. Judging from our observation, we should 
think this a very exceptional case at Winston. The yearling 
heifers which we saw in the fold-yard at our first visit, we found 
out at grass, with no extra food, looking in very good state, and 
a useful lot, to be served in July, so as to calve down at two 
years old. 
The sheep stock comprise a flock of a hundred Shropshire 
ewes. Part of the lambs are sold fat in the summer. The 
whole are winter-grazed on pasture land, having a few roots 
supplied. Lambs are not shorn, as they make bigger prices 
Avhen sold in spring. Ewe lambs are not put to the ram. 
Winston is probably too cold and backward a country for such 
a practice to be successful, and natural food is almost entirely 
relied on in the summer. 
The stock at our visits in January and May were as follows : — 
January. 
50 Cows. 
7 Feeding drapes. 
10 2-year old Heifers. 
20 Yearling Heifers. 
2 Bulls. 
89 
100 Ewes. 
44 Ewe hogg 
42 Wethers. 
3 Hams. 
Cattle. 
May. 
51 Cows. 
4 Do. barren and feeding. 
19 Yearling Heifers, 
19 "Weaning calves. 
2 Bulls. 
95 
Sheep, 
189 
94 Ewes. 
148 Lambs. 
44 Ewe hoggs. 
286 
Pigs. 
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