502 The Cumberland aud Westmoreland 
not less than 80 acres in extent and not more than 200 acres, 
35Z. ; for the second best, 20Z. 
In the two classes of stock on pastoral farms a condition Avas 
made that the farm was not to have more than 10 per cent, of 
arable land, exclusive of enclosed lands and stinted pastures. 
The competition was limited to tenant farmers paying a bond 
fide rent for all the land in their occupation, the whole of which 
had to be entered on the certificate. The Judges were instructed 
to consider any special advantage one competitor had over 
another, and especially to consider — 
1. General Management, with a view to Profit. 
2. Productiveness of Crops. 
3. Goodness and suitability of Live Stock. 
4. Management of Grass- and Clover-land. 
5. State of Gates, Roads, Fences, and General Neatness. 
6. Mode of Book-keeping pursued. 
7. Management of Dairy and Dairy Produce. 
On the annexed page will be found the schedule of the farms 
entered. There was no competition in the fourth class (viz.. 
Small Pastoral Farms). 
The Judges did not receive their instructions in time to pay 
an autumn visit, and their first inspection consequently took 
place in February. Leaving on Candlemas Day their respective 
counties, Wiltshire, Yorkshire, and Cambridgeshire, all bound 
up with a hard and apparently unyielding frost, they found to 
their surprise on their arrival at Carlisle no trace of such 
frigidity. Ploughs were going merrily, and Spring seemed in 
this northern latitude to have reasserted her supremacy. But a 
greater surprise awaited them in the long journeys which it 
was necessary to take to survey the several farms. In nearly a 
fortnight of constant travel and much open-air inspection they 
were but once overtaken by rain whilst engaged upon their 
business.* 
In the last week in April and the first week in May the 
Reporting Judge made an independent tour of the whole of the 
farms for the purpose of observing specially the mode of turnip- 
culture, the sowing of which is very early in these counties, and 
which is a point of great importance in their agriculture. A 
this visit also the district belied its character, and not until th 
last day of his inspection did rain interfere Avith work. The 
last visit was made by all three Judges just previous to the 
Carlisle Show. And again it must be recorded that they had 
* Starting fi-om any given point in tlie district, a circuit of full 300 miles by 
rail and carriage was necessary to complete the inspection of the competing farms. 
