Derby Prize-Farm Competition, 1881. 
485 
166 qrs. ; beans, 43 qrs. ; maize-meal, 48 sacks ; fine sharps, 
37 sacks ; bran, 5 tons 6 cwts. ; and grains at 3fi?. to 6c?. a 
bushel, 206/. 2s. Ad. (equal at A^d. per bushel to 11,000 bushels). 
Total cost of feeding-stufFs :— 1877, 684/. ; 1878, 774/. ; 1879, 
670/. ; 1880, 817/.; amounting to an average cost per acre for 
food and manure to the large sum of 63s. bd. over the whole 
250 acres. 
Accounts. — No particular system of accounts is used, but a 
careful entry is made daily of all receipts and expenditure, and 
the books are regularly made up each half-year. Miss Mary 
Bryer seems to be her father's chief clerk, a very useful and 
honourable position. 
Orchard. — Two acres of orchard are a pleasant and profitable 
addition to this farm, and this year there is a good crop of 
apples, pears, and damsons. The trees were planted entirely at 
Mr. Bryer's own expense. If landowners would plant fruit- 
trees more extensively where they thrive well, it would increase 
the value of their property and the prosperity of their tenants. 
Impi'ovements. — The tenant has here made many permanent 
improvements, and very many of the conveniences and ad- 
vantages are the result of the expenditure of his skill, labour, 
and capital. Besides those things mentioned, the building of 
liquid-manure tanks, laying down the glazed and iron pipes, 
the former in cement ; grubbing up about IJ miles of old fences, 
replanting and renewing fences (the landlord finding one-third 
of quick and timber in the rough) ; Mr. Bryer has put in 40,000 
drain pipes, from 3 to 4 feet deep, at his own cost, and made a 
good gravel road from the the turnpike-road to his house, the 
landlord allowing him to have 500 yards of gravel ready dug at 
Is. %d. per yard. 
This farm is a splendid example of what may be done by 
plodding industry and long-continued judicious employment of 
capital. Few men could make such a place succeed so well, 
none without long experience ; and unless complete confidence 
existed between landlord and tenant, a tenant would be foolish 
to risk his capital to such an extent. Happy is a tenant with 
such a landlord, and, we think, happier is a landlord with such 
a tenant. 
Mk. John Hellaby's Farm, Twyfokd, Derby. 
Second-Prize Large Dairy Farm. — Class I. 
Six miles from Derby, and less than half that from Repton 
and Willington, stands Mr. Hellaby's pleasant homestead. A 
good substantial house, with a neat lawn in front, which is 
