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Report of the Judges on the 
turnips, afterwards on swedes with clover-hay, and corn. Fifty 
tegs had been sold previous to June at 60s. each bare shorn, 
and some of the lambs had also been disposed of. 
Horses. — There were 26 horses and young stock on the farm, 
or 13 cart-horses, 3 mares in foal, 4 three-year-olds, 2 two-year- 
olds, 3 yearlings, and one nag. The horses not only do the 
work of the farm, but are also required for the working of the 
estate. They are a very useful stamp of horse, of Clydesdale 
and Suffolk breed. It is found that the horses on this farm are 
not subject to grease or any other disease. 
Figs. — Three breeding sows and one boar of the small white 
Ijreed are kept. The young pigs are mostly fattened and sold 
as porkers of about 80 lljs. weight. 
Farm Buildings. — These consist mainly of the old buildings 
on the farm previous to its adaptation as a sewage farm ; but 
they have been added to and made fit for the reception of 
the milking and other stock. Very great judgment has been 
exercised in the alteration of the old buildings, which have 
been well arranged so as to meet the present requirements of 
the farm without any extravagant expenditure, and they are 
kept in excellent order and condition. 
Sanitary. — Twenty-six persons reside on the sewage farm, 
including fourteen children, and twenty others are employed 
who do not reside on it. At no time has there been any 
form of epidemic disease. A child about twelve months 
old died about six years ago, and one man not living on the 
farm died from inflammation of the lungs. Dr. Wilson, the 
medical officer of health of the district, reported August 6th, 
1879, writing to Captain Fosbery, the agent of the Earl of 
Warwick, " Concerning the sanitary condition of the Heath- 
cote sewage farm and its surroundings, I have much pleasure 
in being able to state that I have never received any 
complaint of nuisance connected with the farm, nor have I, 
though I have frequently inspected it myself, ever detected 
any. The roads through and around the farm are much 
frequented as carriage-drives by residents in Leamington, and 
I need hardly say that if there wei'e any offensive effluvia given 
off from the farm I should not only hear of any complaints 
which would certainly be preferred, but the roads themselves 
would soon be deserted by pleasure seekers. I have further to 
state that during the six years I have held my present appoint- 
ment no case of fever or illness of any kind has come to my 
knowledge which could be in any way attributed to the farm or 
to the dairy produce. Indeed, the health of those on the farm, 
and of the residents in the neighbourhood, has, so far as I have 
been able to ascertain, been exceptionally good ; and it is within 
