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The Farm-Prize Competition, 1884. 
Particulars of Live Stock, Jan. 1884. 
Cattle 
Total 
Sheep 
20 Cows and heifers. 
8 Bullocks rising 2 years old. 
6 Heifers do. 
2 Feeding cows. 
19 Calves coming 1 year old. 
2 Milking cows, Herefords, bought in. 
1 2-year-old bull. 
58 
57 
59 
36 
5 
Ewes and lambs. 
Wether hoggs. 
Ewe hoggs. 
Rams. 
Total ..157 
Horses 
Working horses. 
Do. lame. 
Hackney. 
2-year-old colts. 
Hackney yearling. 
Cart do. 
Total 
10 
The field of grass above the house, and through which the 
approach road lies, was originally in a very worthless condition. 
It was drained five years since, and dressed with 8 cwt. of bones 
per acre. This treatment has been evidently judicious, as the 
sward is now of a useful character and well grazed. The arable 
land, which is all of a strong nature, is limed every eight years 
at the rate of 3 tons per acre applied to seeds for wheat ; lime is 
also occasionally used with soil as compost for grass. The best 
lime costs lis. at the station, close to the farm ; a dark variety 
is cheaper, at 7s. to 8s., from a kiln five miles distant. Mr. 
Mellings is a great advocate for lime, which he considers 
makes the land healthy for roots. The grass seeds used are 
a mixture of red and white clover, trefoil, alsike, and Italian 
rye-grass. Red clover cannot be grown so often as every fourth 
year. The swedes were an excellent crop, clean, and fully 
20 tons per acre ; they had been sown in drills 20 inches apart, 
and the plants had been set out from 8 to 9 inches. Manure is 
applied partly on clover leys for wheat, and partly on wheat 
stubble for roots. The swedes are ridged, and bone manure is 
