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Report of the Judges on the 
farm, was readily forthcoming. We left the neighbourhood with 
an impression that it would be hard to find in England a more 
thoroughly practical, industrious, carelul, and keen set of 
tenants than the competitors for the Derbyshire farm prizes 
in 1881. 
We would suggest, that if similar prizes are offered for farms in 
connection with the annual show of the Royal Agricultural Society, 
that the request now made for the Judges' award to be given in 
time to be read out at the members' meeting, should not be re- 
peated. Three visits are necessary for the Judges to arrive at 
their ultimate decision. The first inspection should be made in 
the winter, and it is no use going again until the spring corn is 
sown and the roots are being planted. In a backward spring 
like the last, it was not possible to begin a second visit until 
quite the end of May, and as the final inspection had to be 
made before the Royal Show, an interval of only five weeks 
elapsed between our second and third visits, and it was too early 
to see how the corn ripened, and how the cereal year was likely to 
end. If the last visit were paid a week after instead of a week 
before the Royal Show, it would enable the Judges to make 
more accurate awards, and by giving them time during the 
autumn to prepare their report, might produce something more 
worthy of the ' Journal ' than these hastily-written notes, strung 
together at the end of haysel and the early days of harvest, can 
possibly hope to be. 
The following is a copy of our award : — 
The majority of the Judges of the competing farms award the Fiist Prize, 
in Class 1 (large dairy farms), to George Hryer, of Markeaton Park ; and the 
Second Prize to John Hcllaby, of Twyford. 
The Judges unanimously recommend a Third Prize of 251. to Arthur 
Stretton, of Wichnor Biidges, and suggest that as they withhold the second 
prize (if a similar amount in the next class, such prize should be made a third 
prize in this class. 
The Judges award a special high commendation to the farms of the late 
W. T. Carrington, of Croxden Abbey, for the excellence of the stock, the 
cultivation, condition, and general management of the Lind, and the large and 
successful outlay of tenant's capital in the permanent improvement of the 
i'arms ; and they deeply regret that the sudden and lamented death of that 
distinguished agriculturist deprived them of that information which might 
have enabled them to place his farms in the prize list. 
The Judges highly commend the farms occupied by Eichard Finney, of 
Hemington. 
In Class 2 (small dairy farms) they unanimously award the First Prize 
to Arthur Miluer, of Stretton. 
They withhold the Second Prize in this Class. 
In Class 3 (arable or mixed farms) they unanimously award the First 
Prize to Francis Allen Price, of Bainsheath, aiid the Second Prize to Edward 
George Rossell, of Stapleford. 
(Signed) W. P. J. Allsebrook. 
George Gibbons. 
Clare Sewell Read. 
