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linseed cake Is added as soon as the lambs begin to drop, and 
continued until weaning takes place ; 150 theaves are annually 
introduced into the flock, and the draft ewes are all made off as 
fat sheep. 
The lambs are weaned upon clover eddishes, run lightly over 
the young seeds and stubbles, and then go to white turnips early 
in the autumn. They become accustomed to the cake-troughs 
before weaning, and are supplied with the best linseed cake 
afterwards, the quantity being carefully and gradually increased 
during the autumn and winter. The hoggets are all clipped and 
sent fat to market when 12 or 13 months old. 
In good turnip seasons about 200 sheep are bought, and are 
added to those bred on the farm ; thus 1000 sheep are wintered 
annually upon turnips and cake. 
The ewes are good of their kind, but it is questionable whether 
the Oxford Down sheep is not better suited to the district. 
Pigs. — From 80 to 100 pigs of different ages are generally 
kept, all being bred on the farm. A small number are fattened 
annually on the refuse corn, &c., but they do not receive much 
attention, and do not form any great feature in the management 
of the farm. 
Horses. — Eighteen horses are kept, and are always worked in 
pairs. They are fed highly on corn all the year round, having 
vetches in the yards in summer, and clover-hay in the stable 
during winter. They are strong useful animals, but do not 
deserve any special notice. 
Fences. — The fences are for the most part of thriving hawthorn, 
weeds are not allowed to grow upon the banks or in the hedge- 
rows, and there is not the least waste of land, for the fences are 
closely trimmed, so that the corn grows almost on to the banks. 
Grass Laud. — The pastures are very inferior ; they have been 
drained but not otherwise improved ; and they ought certainly 
in future to share in the same liberal treatment which has been 
so judiciously practised in regard to the arable land. 
Labourers. — The labourers .it Ardley are well looked after, 
and well paid ; at the time of our last visit the able bodied men 
were earning nearly 18s. per week at task work. All the work 
that can be done by the piece is put out at Ardley, and the men 
are made to work as much as possible by themselves, and not in 
gangs. No beer is given, and everything is reduced to a money 
value. 
General Rcmarhs. — The foregoing description of Mrs. Mil- 
lington's system of farming may, perhaps, disappoint those who 
expected to hear of something new, or of some departure from 
the old four-course routine, the propriety of which has of late 
