The Farm-Prize Competition, 1884. 
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ments, each holding 2000 bushels. The insides of the walls 
are cemented ; the grains are carefully packed, and covered 
with two inches of cowdung collected from the pastures. Grains 
thus stored keep well and can be laid in during summer, when 
they are cheap. I'he court is, in fact, a species of silo for grains, 
and answers admirably. As regards the house, the dairy and 
kitchen are very inadequate for the requirements of a large farm ; 
and both here and at the outlying buildings Dutch barns for the 
preservation of both hay and corn would be most valuable addi- 
tions. The cows are carefully selected for milking qualities, and 
principally bred on the farm, with occasional purchases to main- 
tain the necessary supply of milk lor sale, which averages about 
GO gallons a day. The additional produce is made into butter 
for the market and a little cheese for the house. The cows are 
of Shorthorn character, a pedigree bull from a good milking dam 
being used. In winter the cows are tied up in the shippon, 
but go out every day, weather permitting, for exercise. The 
calves are removed at birth, have new milk for three or four 
weeks, then old milk, warmed up, with calf-meal previously 
scalded. As soon as possible they are taught to eat a little hay, 
dust-cake, &c. ; old milk and calf-food are given for two or three 
months. Mrs. Holme, who attends to the calves and poultry, 
told us that after long experience and serious losses, she believes 
she can now cure the scour, which she is convinced arises from 
the new milk being too rich for the calfs digestion. The food 
is at once changed, a dose of castor oil and laudanum is given to 
allay irritation; boiled skim-milk and sago, nearly cold, are substi- 
tuted for the new milk ; and if this food is too rich, then boiled 
sago alone, also given cold. The second day, and until the ' 
diarrhoea is stopped, one or two table-spoonfuls of the following 
mixture, viz. 4 ozs. prepared chalk, 1 oz. grains of paradise, 
2 ozs. cummin seed, 2 ozs. aniseed, well mixed in a pint of 
starch gruel, to which may be added 20 drops of laudanum. 
The calves appeared healthy and thriving. In winter the 
cows live entirely on pulped, chopped, and steamed food, except 
that twice a day a small quantity of long hay is supplied for the 
object of encouraging rumination. The arrangements for the pre- 
paration of food are good. The power is supplied by a vertical 
engine and boiler, the waste steam being utilised for steaming 
chaff and pigs'-food. The cows have pulped food so steamed 
twice a day, to which grains and occasionally meal are added, and 
2 lbs. a day of mixed cotton and linseed cake at three o'clock. 
Roots are liberally used, 84 lbs. to 112 lbs. a day. The swedes 
of 1883 were a splendid sample, and ]Mr. Holme stated they 
were proved by measurement to be over 30 tons per acre. The 
