532 Report on the Derby Prize-Farm Competition, 1881. 
One sow of the large white breed is kept, her progeny being 
sold, except what is required for home use. 
Horses. — Three good cart-horses do the work of the farm. 
One of them is a well-bred mare, which is entered in the 
' English Cart-Horse Stud-Book.' In July she had a capital 
filly-foal by ' Warrior,' running with her. There are also kept 
a nag and a milk-pony. The winter allowance of corn for a 
cart-horse is 10 lbs. daily of maize, oats, and bran, mixed 
with ^ lb. of linseed-cake and cut chaff. 
Two foals are generally reared, and we saw one two-year-old 
and two yearling colts ; all of them useful, and one yearling is a 
specially good colt. 
Poultry. — This is in Mrs. Rossell's department, and, like the 
rest of her charges, well looked after, and it should be, for it is 
expected to " keep the house." 
Impleme7its. — Among a suitable assortment of implements, 
which are clean, and put under cover in a good cart-shed, is a 
good corn-drill, with steerage horse-hoe, by Coultas, a self- 
delivery reaper by Hornsby, and a Bamlett's mower, which has 
cut the grass in a very satisfactory manner. 
Labour. — One labourer, at 175. per week, and his cottage (3s.), 
and a cow-man, at 17s., and his cottage, with a boy at 4s. per 
week, supplement the work of three others, who board and lodge 
in the house, and receive respectively 16/. 10s., IIZ., and 6/. 
a year. A little work is done by the piece, such as cutting 
off and putting in heaps turnips at 9s., and mangolds at 10s., 
per acre. The total average annual cost of labour for three 
years, including board and lodging, has been 21s. Id. per 
acre, exclusive of work done by the master, who takes a full 
share. Three or four hands do the milking, with Mr. Rossell's 
assistance. 
Feeding-stuffs and Manures. — The average cost per annum for 
three years has been about 27s. 9c?. per acre, 26s. 3rf. being for 
feeding-stuffs. Part of the purchased manure was night-soil, 
which is very effective on the stronger arable land, but does not 
cost much (9c?. a load), except for labour. 
Fences of quick were strong, and kept within bounds. All 
the gates and posts had been painted with gas-tar at 4c?. each, 
the tenant finding the tar. There was quite enough timber 
growing in the hedges, mostly good ash and elm. 
Milk. — This is one of the chief items of income, this and fat 
stock. One contract is for 105 imperial gallons per week, 
fetched away at 'd\d. per gallon ; this is retailed in the adjoining 
villages. Another contract is for 199 gallons a week at 10c?., 
for eight months, and 9c/. for four months, delivered in Not- 
