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average is found to be 2^ gallons per head per day. The milk 
is sold under contract to a milkman at \\<l. for four quarts all 
the year round. The cows are milked to within six weeks of 
calving, and are then turned into the park, but when not in 
calf are sold to the butcher. It has been found by experiment 
that in summer, when the cows are fed on rye-grass, a cow 
consumes and wastes 1^ cwt. of grass per day. The cows which 
are not bred on the farm are bought in with the second or third 
calf, and are kept in good condition ready for the butcher. 
The cows, when in the sheds in the early part of the present 
year, and at other times, were found to be kept remarkably clean, 
and were regularly groomed, and the attention given to them 
was well requited, as they looked well and healthy. Under the 
terms of the contract with the milkman the bailiff is always bound 
to supply him with any quantity of milk he may give notice 
that he requires, and consequently it is often necessary to buy cows 
to give the extra supply. Barren cows are sold fat, and others are 
bought in their place to keep up the supply of milk. The cows 
in summer are fed on rye-grass, and 3 to 4 lbs. each of unde- 
corticated cotton-cake mixed with bean-flour and palm-nut 
meal. At night they have a run in a meadow. In winter 
they have about 6 lbs. each per day of decorticated cotton-cake 
mixed with bean-flour, pulped roots, and hay. There were 
27 rearing calves on the farm. They are fed for the first week 
on new milk, and afterwards on skim-milk with a little oilcake. 
They are kept in yards until 12 months old, and are then turned 
into the park and fed off at two or two and a half years old. 
The heifers not required for the herd are finished off in the 
park, and the bullocks are brought up to folds, and have cake, 
corn, and roots. There were 54 rising three-year-old steers, 
22 heifers two years old, and 44 yearlings on the farm. There 
is also one pedigree bull, " Duke of Sockburn 2nd," 36,544, 
by " Cherry Duke 2nd," 25,758. The way in whicli so 
many calves are reared is that during the summer the cows 
give more milk, and the milkman takes less, as the winter is the 
Leamington " season." 
Sheep. — There were 150 ewes, 172 one-year-old tegs, 222 
lambs, and 2 rams on the farm. The sheep are bred from 
Shropshire ewes crossed with an Oxford Down ram, and are a 
very good lot. No sheep are bought, but about 160 ewes are 
every year put to the ram, and the produce reared and mostly 
sold fat as yearlings. When the lambs are weaned they have 
an allowance of oats and Indian corn mixed, at the rate of 
^ lb. per head per day. The tegs on the pastures were having 
1 lb. per head per day of decorticated cotton-cake and Indian 
corn mixed together. They would then be put on green-top 
