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Report on the Farm-Prize Competition, 1870. 
grubbing up the old ones and planting new ones, wliere practi- 
cable, on a iresh site. A work of this sort can only be managed 
by the joint efforts of landlord and tenant, and in this case it is 
very desirable that some equitable arrangement should be made 
for the improvement of the fences. 
General Remarks. — Mr. Tread well's system, although differing 
very much in detail from that pursued at Ardlev, nevertheless 
fulfils the same essential conditions of high farming; and it has 
produced at Upper Winchendon, in this trying season, magnificent 
crops of roots and corn, and has moreover maintained in the best 
possible condition a large herd of cattle and a large flock of 
sheep. 
The catch-crops, as they may be called, of vetches before roots, 
and of turnips with the beans and peas, tend extremely to pro- 
mote this great fertility. It is scarcely necessary to point out 
the large amount of sheep-feed contained in a really good crop 
of vetches, and when these are all fed off by sheep eating cake, 
the amount of manure of the best description returned to the soil 
is ver}' large indeed. The same remarks apply to the turnips 
after pulse, which are also all fed off by cake-eating sheep. 
The amount annually expended by Mr. Tread well in cake and 
corn, as has already been shown, is very large ; and we thus, in 
the second Prize Farm, obtain a further confirmation of the value 
of high stock-feeding, combined in this case, however, with a 
most excellent system of green cropping. I think that Mr. 
Treadwell's system of management is highly instructive ; great 
ingenuity is exhibited in the adaptation of his root and green 
crops, and the whole concern is managed in a thoroughly 
systematic and business-like manner. 
It is right that I should notice the difficulty the Judges had in 
comparing two such very different farms as those to which the 
first and second prizes have been awarded. 
The first is a large poor light-land arable farm, and the second 
contains a large proportion of very useful pasture land. It is 
obvious, therefore, that different systems of farming should be 
adopted upon lands so entirely opposite in character and quality. 
At Ardley, very inferior land has been made to produce remark- 
ably goo<l crops, and we therefore think it deserving of the greatest 
credit ; but we nevertheless consider that Mr. Treadwell pursues 
a system well adapted for the land he occupies, and carries it out 
in the most effective manner. 
Third Prize Farm, 
Mr. Craddock's farm at Lyneham, Chipping -Norton, although 
not altogether fulfilling the conditions necessary to entitle it to 
