Derby Prize-Farm Competition, 1881. 
521 
was placed in churns and allowed to stand in stone cisterns, 
filled with cold water, until morning, and then both meals were 
sent away. The contract price was 1.?. bd. per barn gallon 
(17 pints), for six months, and Is. lOd. for six months. From 
this %l. per " barn " must be deducted for carriage, which is 
paid by the sender. 
Labour. — All the out-door work of the farm was done by the 
master and three labourers who lived in the house, the three 
receiving 25/., 20/., and 11/. respectively, and their board and 
lodging reckoned at 20/. per head per annum. The labour thus 
costing about 21s. an acre. 
Purchased food. — In the winter the cows were feeding on 
hay, grains, and 4 lbs. of rice-meal per head per day. 
Mr. Woodward has built several cowsheds, grubbed up 
hedges, and made other permanent improvements. The cow - 
shed would have been much better if more room had been 
allowed for the cows. 
There were 10 horses of all sorts on the farm, though with 
the exception of taking milk to the station they had little to do, 
and must be considered as grazing stock. 
There are no sheep or pigs on the farm, and no books are 
kept. Mr. Woodward appears to be a very hard-working, ener- 
getic man ; but, as the Judges could not perceive any special 
merit in the farm, they declined to award a prize. A farmer 
who had, within the last few years, twice lost all his cattle from 
pleuro-pneumonia, and more recently had his sheep, about 200, 
cleared off by the rot, could hardly be expected to have his 
farm or his stock in a condition to successfully compete for 
prizes offered by the Royal Agricultural Society. 
: Mr. Francis Allen Price, Barnsheath, Appleby, 
Atherstone. 
First-Prize Mixed or Arable Farm. — Class III. 
Though this farm lies well together, it is in three parishes 
and two counties. The counties are "Derby and Leicester, and 
the parishes, Measham, Appleby, and Snarestone. One end of 
the farm is near to Snarestone Station, and the other not far 
from Measham Station on the Ashby and Nuneaton Branch of 
the Midland Railway. It consists of 223 acres, 110 being 
pasture, and 113 arable, of stout red loam resting upon red 
sandstone. The property belongs to George Moore, Esq., 
Appleby Hall, and was entered March 25th, 1878. 
Mr. Price is an improving tenant, and has strong faith in 
permanent improvements. He says, " I have made permanent 
O HT O 
