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Four breeding sows are kept, and all the pigs arc fattened on 
tlie produce of the farm. 
Eight working hoises are kept; they are worked generally in 
pairs, are stabled during winter, and kept in the yards on green 
l'o(jd during the summer. They are never turned out into the 
pastures at any season of the year. 
A small proportion only of the 125 acres of pasture land is 
mown, and never two years in succession without having sheep 
folded on it, eating cake or corn. Until weaning-time the ewes 
and lambs are always in hurdles, the lambs running forward and 
eating a moderate quantity of cake. In this dry season both 
cattle and sheep had cake-troughs in almost every field, and 
altiiough rather short of grass were doing well. 
The fences are remarkably good, and are carefully and well 
managed. There is not a gap to be seen, and scarcely a weed 
on the banks ; there is as little waste ground as possible, and in 
the arable fields the corn grows quite close to the fence. 
There is very much to admire in the system of farming pursued 
at Adderbury. The cultivation is very superior, the crops are 
clean, the pastures and fences well managed, and the stock 
good, and carefully attended to. There is not, however, the 
same bulk of corn, or the same promise for roots, as we have 
described on the two Prize Farms, although the district is con- 
sidered one of the most fertile in the county. 
Mr. Latliarris Farm. — On Mr. Latham's farm at Little Wit- 
tenham, the summer management of sheep is specially worthy 
of notice, and I propose therefore to give a short description of 
this farm. 
It contains 500 acres, of which 140 are pasture and 360 arable 
land. The geological formations upon which it rests are valley 
gravels and gault, and the soil may be described as a strong clay 
loam on a dry subsoil, mixed loam or gravel, and a rather strong 
loam on a rubbly stone subsoil. The system of farming is there- 
fore varied, in accordance with the nature of the soil. The 
object most kept in view, and most cleverly and successfully 
carried out, is the production of as large an amount of sheep feed 
as possible, and the consequent keeping of a large number of 
sheep upon the farm. Trifolium and ryegrass, rye, and winter 
vetches are sown immediately after harvest upon all the stubbles, 
and these are carefully hurdled off in early spring, and serve as 
summer food for the ewes and lambs, the lambs always running 
forward and eating corn and cake. Rape is sown between the 
rows of winter beans, and makes excellent sheep food after the 
vetches, the last of which were being fed off when we visited 
the farm about the middle of July. Mr. Latham keeps a flock 
of 400 Oxford Down ewes, which generally produce about 450 
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