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20 cows in milk are kept throughout the year, milk being sold 
daily for the use of the village, and the rest of the milk is made 
into butter or given to calves for rearing or fattening. The 
draft barren cows from the other farms are fattened on one 
portion of the grass land with cake. The number of cows in 
the shed at the Nothill Farm at the date of the first visit was 
31, all of which were in milk, though nearly all had calved in 
the previous spring, and were giving but little. On the Abbey 
Farm, at the same date, 67 were tied up. Of these 8 were 
fatting, 10 were dry, being heavy in calf, 10 more had calved 
within the last 8 months, and the remainder were in milk, but 
many of them were being gradually dried. 
At Hollington Farm 25 were tied up, 3 being fattened, 6 
having recently calved, and 10 more giving some milk. 
The total number of cattle of all ages was 200 head. 
Fifty-two sheep, being wethers 18 months old, were then the 
only sheep on the farm, purchased October 22nd at 44s. each, 
they are now sold to go off in January and February at lOrf. 
per lb. 
Six good working horses are generally kept, besides one or 
two breeding mares, which are worked except for some time 
after foaling. Most of the horses are 2, 3, or 4 years old, being 
reared, broken in at 2 years old, worked and sold out for town 
work at 4 or 5 when at their best. Two were thus sold last 
year at 6(3/. and 70/., and when horses were dearer much higher 
prices were realised. 
About 100 pigs have been purchased during the year 1880, 
costing about 555. each, and realising about 5/. 6s. each, after 
being kept an average of 12 weeks, with an average increase of 
value at 4s. 3rf. per head per week. Most of the pigs have been 
fattened on the whey at the Nothill Farm with an allowance 
•of maize and rice-meal or sharps, costing 2s. to 2s. 3rf. per head 
per week for corn. The remainder have been fed on the skim- 
milk, waste potatoes, &c., with meal, at the other farms. Not 
one pig has been lost in the past year. 
The feeding of the dairy cows may be described as follows: 
On the Nothill Farm, where the milk is used almost entirely 
for cheese-making, the cows nearly all calve from the middle 
of January to the middle of May, and most of them in March 
and April. They are generally let dry about two months 
before calving, their food in the winter being straw or coarse 
hay, whole swedes being also given, and 2 to 4 lbs. decorticated 
cotton-cake, if young growing beasts or giving much milk. 
Aiter calving good hay is given, a few turnips, 3 lbs. of cotton- 
cake and 3 lbs. rice-meal daily. When the cows go out to 
