552 
The Farm-Prize Competition, 1884. 
£ s. d. 
Horses, &c 44 0 0 
Cattle, ditto 440 15 6 
Sheep 255 7 0 
Pigs 54 3 3 
Grain 270 15 6 
Wool 47 11 9 
Butter 36 0 0 
£1148 13 0 
This is a very different rate of gross produce from the Prize 
farm, but so also is the expenditure ; and we are not sure that 
the net result is not quite as satisfactory. It may, I think, be 
taken for granted that Mr. Mellings works his farm with not 
more than one-half the capital employed by Mr. Nunnerley — a 
very important consideration. Both systems are right under 
their special circumstances ; but great credit is due to the man 
who, by such careful and judicious management, shows how 
land which is not desirable, and which at the present time is 
much out of fashion, and which in less thrifty hands might soon 
get out of order, may be profitably worked with a compara- 
tively small capital : for there is also little doubt that too many 
farmers at the present day are more likely to require instruction 
how to farm profitably with small means, than how to aim at 
the splendid results attained in the case of the first Prize Farm. 
Class I. — Commended. 
Mr. Henry Hardeman, Woofferton, near Ludlow. 
Grass 115 acres. 
Arable 50 „ 
Held on yearly agreement under trustees of the late — 
Foster, Esq., since 1876. The tenant is a hard-working, 
persevering, energetic man, ably backed up by an excellent 
wife, who manages the dairy with great skill. Ten cows are 
usually milked, and on our second visit we were shown a week's 
produce (80 lbs.) of beautiful butter. The milk in summer is 
kept in a cellar in zinc milk vats, which are much cheaper than 
lead, and equally serviceable. Even more important than the 
dairy is the successful rearing of calves, as to which Mrs. Har- 
deman has been most fortunate. She gives them new milk 
