Farm-Prize Competition, 1880. 
529 
This for a farm which includes 9G acres of arable in rotation, 
and 14(5 of meadow and pasture! 1 will throw in the 374 acres 
of hill allotment, and consider it as workable with the rest, 
without additional cost of labour ; but what is to be said of 
242 acres of meadow, pasture, and arable, of which the odd 
42 acres is in root and corn crop every year, where 40 cows are 
kept, and 120 lbs. of butter often made a-week, being worked 
with an expenditure of only lOOZ. besides the labour of the 
family ? Simply this, that it is an additional instance of the lesson 
which is taught on so many of these northern farms, viz., that 
the willing labour of the cultivator himself, aided by a well- 
trained and industrious household, is to be relied upon beyond 
the time-service of a dozen hirelings who bring no interest to their 
occupation, or whose motive is to pass their time with as little 
labour as is possible compatible with the receipt of their wages, 
which they make no effort to earn. Is this too severe a picture 
of many a southern labourer? I think not. I have alluded 
elsewhere to the fact of the great wave of depression, which 
has wrought such havoc in the remainder of England, having 
passed over these Westmoreland and Cumberland farmers, leaving 
them almost unscathed. I cannot do better than wind up my 
report of this farm with the expression of my conviction that 
here would many a south-countryman learn lessons which he 
would do well to take home to himself, since it is certain that the 
virtues which have conduced to the prosperity of Burneside Hall 
and many more of these competing farms, are those which form 
part of the duty of all classes alike, and which may be prac- 
tised in every clime and in every soil, though not necessarily 
always under equal conditions. 
Let me add, that Mr. Atkinson possesses many cups which 
testify to his success as an agriculturist, some for " best general 
stock," some for " cattle," and one for " best managed farm," 
and it was with the greatest pleasure that the Judges found the 
Council of the Society had acceded to their recommendation 
and given him a third prize in this class, an honour which he 
well deserves for the admirable management which I have here 
endeavoured to describe. 
Mr. R. Tinniswood's Farm, Rose Bank, Cumberland. 
HigJihj Commended. — Class I. 
Situation.— Hose Bank Farm, in the occupation of Mr. R. 
Tinniswood, lies about seven or eight miles south-west of 
Carlisle, in the valley of theCaldew, and about three miles from 
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