Report on the Farm-Prizo Competition, 1870. 2G1 
vetches, or seeds for them in the spring. The ewes, after 
lambing, get on the pastures about 1^ pint of oats each, and 
later on a few mangolds. When on the rye or vetches the lambs 
run forward and learn to eat a little cake and corn, the ewes getting 
1 lb. of cotton cake. The lambs are weaned soon after shear- 
day, about the middle of June, and are put on the pastures and 
seeds. The tup-lambs get \ pint of corn and cake, and some 
cabbage as soon as we can spare them any, until the rams are 
sold — the first Wednesday in August. The ewes, as soon as the 
lambs are weaned, have rather a hard time of it until September, 
they are run thick in a pasture, or they clean up seeds after the 
other'sheep, or run anywhere where we can keep them cheapest. 
The rams, as you are aware, during the summer, are kept on 
vetches, and have cabbages taken to them, always having a plen- 
tiful supply of water by them, and moveable shades to protect 
them from the sun, getting about a pint of split peas, and a 
little linseed and cotton cake," 
Pips. — Seven breeding sows of the Berkshire sort are kept, and 
all the produce is fatted off at about ten score weight. The sows 
are remarkably good specimens of the Berkshire breed, and the 
feeding pigs combine great aptitude to fatten with sufficient size. 
Horses. — Mr. Treadwell keeps nine working horses, which 
are strong useful animals, but not specially deserving of notice. 
They are yoked at length, three in a plough, for deep winter 
ploughing, and they work abreast for the lighter operations of 
spring cultivation. 
Grass-land. — The pastures are a very important feature in Mr. 
Treadwell's farm. A very small proportion of them are mown 
for hay, and none are mown two years in succession without an 
application of good well-made farmyard manure, at the rate of 
nine or ten loads per acre. 
The fields are divided into convenient enclosures, and are 
nearly all well watered. Although depastured almost entirely 
by dairy cattle and young animals, they do not show any symptoms 
of deterioration ; and although breeding animals must eventually, 
under ordinary management, impoverish the pastures they graze 
upon, Mr. Treadwell's high farming and liberal use of linseed 
cake and corn no doubt correct as much as possible a system of 
stock-farming, which, in too many instances, has impoverished 
much of the grass-land in the kingdom. 
Mr. Treadwell buys annually 600/. worth of linseed and 
cotton cake, 200/. worth of corn, and besides this generally con- 
sumes beans and peas grown upon the farm to the value of 600/. 
Fences. — The fences are, generally speaking, not good, and are 
evidently suffering from many years' neglect of former tenants. 
In many cases they are past repair, and can only be improved by 
