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Report of the Judges on the 
The price of milk has been Is. 5^c?. per barn gallon (of 17 
pints) from April 1st to October 1st, delivered in London ; 
Is. lOJ. for October, November, February ; Is. Wd. December 
and January, and Is. Id. in March. The net price being a 
fraction over 7c?. clear per imp. gal. in summer, and 9</. and a 
fraction in winter. 
The arable land was cropped in 1880 as follows : — 
Acres. 
Wheat 28 
Oats 22 
Barley 7j 
{Swedes.. .. 11 
White TumiiJS 4 
Mangolds .. 6 
Cabbages , . 2 
Potatoes .. 2 
Seeds, besides 5 acres of permanent seeds 4 
Total 8Gi 
Six or eight acres of cabbages are usually grown, but last 
winter destroyed many plants, and swedes were substituted. 
34 acres of wheat are now sown, 18 acres being after roots. 
The amount of purchased feeding stuffs has been large. The 
home-grown corn has been sold. Some black oats and all 
inferior or light corn have been crushed and used. 
1880 
1879. 
Cash 
£ 
S. 
(/. 
£ s. 
d. 
640 
0 
0 
610 0 
0 
170 
0 
0 
275 0 
0 
35 
10 
0 
40 7 
0 
232 
0 
0 
ilaize and rice-meal for cows, pigs and horses 
335 0 
0 
50 
0 
0 
40 0 
0 
1127 
10 
0 
1300 7 
6 
' Purchased manures, chiefly fisli-guauo, mine- 
ral superphosphate, nitrate of soda, and 
115 
10 
o! 
164 11 
0 
[ bone-meal J 
The quantity of cheese made at the Nothill Farm in 1880 
exceeded 8 tons 10 cvvts. of 120 lbs. to the cwt. (the weight 
being taken at the time of sale). About 3 tons is as yet on 
hand, but there is every probability of an average price of 80s. 
per 120 lbs. being realised on the whole year's make. 
Samples of this cheese were exhibited at the Staffordshire, 
Derby, and Manchester and Liverpool Shows, winning 1st, 2nd, 
and 3rd prizes, 17/. 10s. in value. 
In 1879, two Royal Agricultural Society's 1st prizes were won, 
and 33/. in all. Butter, chiefly whey, except for a short time 
in winter, made at the Nothill Farm in 1880, sold for 85/., being 
