Derjtj Prize-Farm Competition, 1881. 
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cast about for a remedy and found an excellent one ; there was 
an old marl-pit 500 yards away, there was always water in it, 
and a big piece of land measured into the farm could not be 
cultivated, — it was a quagmire too. Could not this surplus of 
water be made to neutralise the want of water and both 
quagmires be abolished ? It was done. Troughs 18 inches 
deep, specially designed by Mr. Price, were built into a wall 
erected between the large yard and the lambing-yard, a pipe 
was also built in the wall at the bottom of the troughs, so that 
abundant motion of the water would prevent freezing and 
destruction of the troughs. A pipe-drain was then carried the 
500 yards up to and under the marl-pit. This was a costly 
job, for much of it is 14 feet deep; — 11 feet rock, and 3 feet 
loam. The landlord found pipes, troughs, and bricks, and 
built the wall dividing the yards, also paid half the cost of the 
cutting of the drain. It has all answered well, the pump water 
is good and sweet, the yard is clean and neat, there has always 
been an abundant supply of water, and now in the marl-pit 
there is growing a splendid crop of potatoes. About 70 acres 
Mr. Price has drained (his landlord finding pipes) at distances 
and depths varying from 7 to 20 yards wide, from 5 feet to 
3 feet 6 inches deep, according to the nature of the subsoils. 
In the accounts all these improvements are charged with 5 per 
cent, interest. There is also a charge of 7^ per cent, on 
bones applied to grass-land. They were ^-inch, boiled, kitchen 
bones, and 7 cwts. per acre were applied. The meadows had 
the hassocks cut off them, and a novel way of disposal was 
adopted ; they were spread on a piece of strong land and 
ploughed in, getting rid of the hassocks and benefiting the 
land. 
Mr. Price holds theories, and they hold water, or he would 
not hold them. It is very pleasant to go over a farm so well 
managed, in so systematic a manner. Mr. Price, jun., intends 
to give up grazing and rearing so many cattle, and take to 
dairying and milk-selling. We do not doubt he will then have 
more pleasure in making up his balance-sheets. 
In the inch-by-inch contest in this class Mr. Price wins a 
well-deserved First Prize. 
Mk. Edward Geokge Rossell's Farm. 
Second Prize. — Class III. 
The farmhouse known as New Farm, Stapleford, is within 
a mile of Sandiaci'e station on the Erewash Valley branch of 
