Tlie Farm-Prize Competition, 1884. 
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Hens and ducks are bred, and eggs sold. 
The tillage land has not paid of late years. There are only 
five fields, which are cropped as follows : — 
1. Cow grass and clover ; grazed early, and mown either 
for hay or seed. 
2. Wheat. 
3. Roots. 
4. Wheat. 
5. Barley and seeds, with 2 cwt. of artificial manure per 
acre. 
At our second visit in May we found No. 283, 10 a., below 
the house, in barley and cow-grass after wheat. A capital 
plant, even, thick, and promising. Young seeds coming well, 
and land clean. Mr. Sherratt adopts this cropping because the 
quality of the barley is so much better after wheat than it 
would be on roots. The wheat crop growing in fields Nos. 240 
and 238 was also promising. The fallow, owing to the strong 
nature of the land and the absence of rain, was absorbing a vast 
amount of horse-power, and the chance of a crop appeared 
somewhat problematical ; but owing to judicious management 
and auspicious rain, a good tilth was eventually secured. 
The swedes came away well, and there was every prospect of 
a crop. Accounts are accurately kept, Webb's system being 
used. The returns are governed mainly by the hop-crop. Thus 
in 1882 the crop was almost a failure, but the small total yield 
of 7 cwt. was sold at the rate of 21Z. a cwt. In 1883 the yield 
was good, nearly 12 cwt. an acre, and the price, 11. IO5., gave 
a return of 891/. 75., equal to over 60/. an acre. In 1881, a 
crop of 5 cwt. per acre made 555Z. In 1879 the crop was 
next door to a failure. 
Servants Recommended for Certificates. 
Edmund Jefferies. Unmarried, aged 27 years. Recom- 
mended by the Judges for clever management of the farm at 
Bolus Magna, where and elsewhere he has managed for his 
mother, Mrs. Ann Jefferies, for 13 years, as per particulars. 
See page 581. 
Thomas Price, Huntington Court Farm, near Hereford. 
Aged 52 years, married ; with 7 children, the youngest 14, all up 
and doing well. He was most strongly recommended by the late- 
Mrs. Goodwin, and by Mr. Evans, who is one of the executors. He 
was in the late Mr. Goodwin's service for 30 years, and since 
Mr. Goodwin's illness has had the management of the Hunting- 
ton Court Farm. Before that. Price was hind for 13 years on a 
