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Rates. — -I may just remark en passant that we found Mr. 
Donald more highly rated than almost any of the farmers in the 
competition. Besides a poor rate of Is. 6f/. in the pound, he 
paid a school rate of Is. 4f/. in the pound, and a highway rate 
of '6(1. This is such an unusual charge in lightly rated Cumber- 
land, that I have made an exception in mentioning it here. 
Hedges and Fences. — The hedges and fences are generally 
superior to the ordinary run. They are mostly quick-thorn on 
banks, according to the custom of the country. The gates are 
fair. The buildings are good and well kept. Mr. Donald had 
a fire which destroyed a portion of them soon after he had 
entered his farm for the Competition. They were, however, 
quickly rebuilt, and the inevitable fixed threshing machine re- 
placed. Threshing is done by horse-power, the horses working 
under shelter. 
Stacks. — The ricks were very neat, well put together and well 
thatched, offering a decided contrast in this respect to some in 
this class. The farm implements were all in first-rate order, 
and the carts well painted and otherwise taken care of. 
This concludes my notes of an interesting farm. Mr. Donald's 
accounts, like many more in this class, were not of an elaborate 
character ; but we saw enough to satisfy us that, without the 
advantages of some of his rivals, he grew good produce, reared 
good stock, and presented his farm in a thoroughly neat and 
business-like condition which was alike creditable to his in- 
dustry, his judgment, and his business capacity. 
EXECUTOES OF ROWLAND PaEKEE, MoSS EnD FaEM, 
Westmoeeland. 
Second-Prize Farm. — Class II. 
Situation. — Moss End Farm, the property of Mr. W. H. 
Wakefield, of Sedgwick, is situated in the fertile district before 
mentioned in connection with Mr. Handley's farm at Green- 
head, and is only 2 or 3 miles from that occupation, 7^ from 
Kendal, and about 4 from Milnthorpe. Like the First-Prize 
Farm in Class I., its neighbour, it is only moderately elevated 
above the sea, its highest point being just 200 feet, and the 
land near the house being about 130 by the Ordnance Map. 
The Kendal and Lancaster Canal intersects the farm, and 
a road of some importance in former days — the main turnpike 
road between London and Edinburgh — runs past the house. 
To the west extends the undulating country (perhaps the richest 
and best cultivated in Westmoreland, judging from what we 
