500 
Eeport of the Jud jes on the 
W. T. Carrington owned six cottages, and rented two with the 
Hollington Farm. These are, with one exception, occupied 
by labourers, most of whom work on the Abbey Farm. 
One cottage has 3 acres ol grass land attached, and the 
labourer keeps a cow which }ields him a profitable return. 
Two other labourers occupy small holdings, and each keeps 
two cows. 
The total acreage mown for hay every year is as follows : — 
Abbey Farm 63 acres. 
NothiU Farm 22 „ 
Springfields lis „ 
Hollington 15 „ 
Total WW „ 
When grass is abundant at the mowing season an extra field 
is sometimes shut up for a short time and mown for hay, or 
portions of fields where the grass is strong are sometimes mown. 
In addition, 8 acres of clover were mown in 1880, but this was 
exceptional. 
The Nothill Farm is almost wholly devoted to cheese- 
making, from 10 to 14 heifer calves being reared on the skim- 
milk or whey porridge, and kept until 12 months old on that 
farm, when they are grazed on other portions of the occupation 
until brought into the dairy. On the Abbey Farm the pastures 
are chiefly grazed by dairy cows, the milk from which is sent 
to London twice daily, except in the winter months, when it is 
sent once only. 
About 10 or 12 heifer calves and a few bull calves are reared 
annually, and some cows in milk are bought to keep up the 
supply, also some barren cows or young cattle for summer 
grazing. A flock of 80 Shropshire ewes has been kept until 
the autumn of 1879, their lambs being (except about 30 ewe 
lambs retained to keep up the flock) fattened at from 1 year 
2 months old to 1 year 6 months, and some young sheep being 
also bought for fattening. The ewes becoming tainted with 
fluke in 1879, like nearly all the sheep in this district, were 
sold chiefly at moderate prices to the butcher, and their lambs 
have all been fattened out, proving, though fat, unsound in their 
livers. 
It is not intended to keep a breeding flock again, at least for 
the present, as nearly all the land is unsuitable and risky in 
wet seasons for sheep, and they are also always troubled with 
foot-rot when grazing on these pastures. The only sheep now 
on the farm are 50 wethers, bought for feeding, and sold by 
weight at lOd. per lb. On the Hollington Farm from 12 to 
