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hands board and lodge in the house. Mr. Archer has three who 
do so — a waggoner, at 25/., cow-man, at 20/., and boy, lOZ. per 
annum ; also a dairj-maid at 111. To the shepherd he pays 
I85. per week, and to a labourer I65. The dairy-maid helps 
three others to milk. 
Wilson Farm is in Leicestershire, near to Melbourne Station. 
There are 41 acres grass, and 48 arable. The land is mode- 
rately light, and has on it some fair crops of corn and roots. 
Most of the roofs of the buildings had fallen in, and none were 
replaced or repaired except those done by the tenant. The 
cow-sheds were particularly sweet and clean, and whitewashed, 
reflecting great credit on those in charge. 
Fourteen ordinary Derbyshire cows were in milk here, the 
milk being fetched from the house morning and evening by a 
man, who gave l\d. per gallon, and retailed it in the village. 
This is a kind of trade that might well be developed ; many 
villages are very badly supplied with milk. Would it not pay 
to retail and deliver it in considerable villages ? It is the 
cheapest and most perfect form of food, and increased con- 
sumption of milk would be for the advantage of the workmen, 
their wives and children, and the farmer. 
Mr. Ahthur Milxer, Stirthfield Farm. 
First-Prize Small Dairy Farm. — Class II. 
Stirthfield Farm is situated 17 miles north of Derby, about 
4i miles from Alfreton, G miles south of Chesterfield, and one 
mile from Claycross ; about half is in Shirland parish and 
about half in the parish of North Wingfield. Chesterfield 
market is generally attended, as Stretton station adjoins the 
farm, and the return fare to Chesterfield on Saturday (market 
day) is but %d., the Midland Railway Company in this, as in 
many other instances, showing their business tact in securing 
traffic by low fares and convenient arrangements. Claycross 
contains 3500 inhabitants, and is surrounded by large coal and 
iron works, in some of which the late George Stephenson, the 
father of railways, was greatly interested. No less than 3000 
tons of coal are raised daily by the Claycross Company alone at 
their works. The shopkeepers of this place are supplied with 
butter, eggs, and cheese direct from the farmhouses in the neigh- 
bourhood and not from the market. The hills and dales of 
Derbyshire are widely known, and they well deserve to be, and 
here we are in the midst of them. The farm is bounded on 
the north by Ashover and Tibshelf road, and on the east by the 
