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Report of the Judges on the 
useful lot. In winter their food is daily 9 lbs. maize or bean- 
meal, a little bran mixed with cut chaff, also a few mangolds or 
swedes every night. 
Sheep. — Here, as with several other competitors, Shropshires 
are the favourites. Thirty nice ewes we saw in December. In 
May and July, 28 of these had reared 49 lambs, and there were 
63 hoggs. The hoggs were kept in the winter on seeds, and 
had per head daily a few roots, 1 lb. cake (half decorticated 
cotton and half linseed), split peas or maize, and a few grains. 
Average weight of fleeces is about 9 lbs. They are sold fat at 
14 or 15 months, and will weigh 88 lbs. a carcass. 
J'iffs. — Only a few are purchased and fed for home use. 
Poultry. — Eighty or 90 hens are kept, about 110 chicken 
are reared, and a profit of 25Z. is realised. 
Labour. — This department seems as well managed as the 
others. The men seemed to work with a will, so were happy 
in their work, for, as H.R.H. the Duke of Albany recently 
said at Nottingham, " The happiness of a man does not so 
much depend on the value of the work he does as the spirit in 
which he does it." We specially noticed one bright-faced 
intelligent-looking lad who opened the gates for us. Three 
hands live in the house, one has 12Z. 10s. a-year, one 11/., and 
one 20/., each with board and lodging ; the two labourers have 
12s. a-week and board. 
The total cost of labour at Twyford is 23s. 6c?. per acre. 
This is exclusive of Mr. Hellaby's very efficient help. Two 
cottages at 5/. a-year each are held by Mr. Hellaby and re-let to 
his men at the same rent. 
Four hands and the master do the milking. There is no 
piece-work, except hedge-cutting and ditching at 3s. per acre 
(28 yards). 
Purchased Food and Manure. — These are heavy bills, especially 
for food, and show an expenditure of more than 3/. per acre on 
the whole farm, but it pays to spend money thus. 
Irnprovernmts. — A good part of a mile of fences have been 
grubbed up by the present tenant, new fences planted, the land- 
lord finding quick ; land was gained, and the new fences are 
straighter than the old ones, and so the fields made more con- 
venient for ploughing, &c. He has also drained some of the 
land 2^ feet deep, costing for labour 2s. 9rf. to 3s. per chain. 
The buildings he has erected, which we mentioned, are shed- 
ding for 20 cows, stables for 2 horses, and styes for 20 pigs, with 
large granary over. The landlord gave the materials. These 
improvements, in addition to the laying-out of the nice garden 
and shrubberies, indicate Mr. Hellaby's taste and enterprise. 
Fences. — Well kept and well trimmed ; in the cornfields the 
