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under adverse conditions. The Judges have pleasure in award- 
ing to him the First Prize, and would recommend any occupier 
of bad land to go and see for themselves the satisfactory results 
of Mr. Milner's intelligent industry. 
Mr. Samuel Woodward's Farm. 
Class II. 
Mr. Woodward's farm (Trusley, Etwall, Derby) is situated 
in a pleasant part of the pleasant county of Derby, and consists 
of 105 acres of heavy land, with a clay subsoil. It is the pro- 
perty of E. S. Coke, Esq., Debdale Hall, Mansfield, Notts. 
There is one small field which had on it last year a few acres 
of " lints " (" dills " or vetches), and an acre or two of oats, and 
now has an excellent plant of most luxuriant red clover ; with 
this exception all is grass-land, which lies scattered about in 
several lots. There was a considerable number of stacks of old 
hay standing at the corners of the fields, which Mr. Woodward 
told us were harvested in years in which he suffered great losses 
among his cattle. On several occasions he had lost a large part 
of his stock by pleuro-pncumonia, which had broken out among 
cattle he had bought in Dublin and other Irish markets. 
The present tenant entered in 1861, following his father who 
had held it for 45 years. The house is after the pattern of 
many old-fashioned Derbyshire farmhouses, built more with 
regard to the requirements of the work than the comfort of the 
family ; and now that cheese-making is neglected and milk- 
selling carried on, the cheese-rooms and dairy and back-kitchen, 
in which the cheese was made, have a rather desolate appearance, 
the empty cheese-presses and unused cheese-making apparatus 
giving them a weird look. 
Mr. Woodward has made additions for the convenience of his 
milk trade, and has recently lined his grains-cisterns with good 
blue bricks laid in mortar, so that he may get in a store of 
grains during the summer months when they are cheap. 
Tenure. — The farm is held under a yearly agreement, and is 
not under the Agricultural Holdings Act. The landlord is to 
pay for Jth of the grains consumed during the last year of the 
tenancy. 
The land-tax and tithes are heavy, the latter being about 5s. 
per acre. 
Cattle. — At our latest inspection in May, 37 cows were in 
milk, and the milk was sent once a day to London, after being 
cooled in a refrigerator, made in Derby. The evening's milk 
