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Bradford. It has gone to the same place for 40 years. 100 lbs. 
a-week is averaged in the summer. A few milk-cheeses for 
home use are made, but not many. The dairy is a very good 
one, and there is no difficulty in keeping the milk three meals. 
These are all the particulars it is necessary to give of a very 
interesting and typical Westmoreland farm. It is only needful 
to enter the household to know that its management is of a 
superior kind, and that it is characterised by that busy industry 
which is the rule of farm life in the county. Mr. Parker is 
ably seconded by his sister, who is thoroughly au fait with the 
details of the business, and, like other Westmoreland women, 
well bears her part in the general economy of farm practice. 
Many prizes have been taken, not only by stock but also for 
the management of the farm, at various times. Fourteen Firsts 
have been awarded at Kendal, Lancaster, Kirkby Lonsdale, and 
B<-\rton (local shows) ; but this is the first time it has been brought 
into such an extended competition, and the honour it has now 
gained is thoroughly merited. 
Mk. Benson's Farm, Boonwood, Gcsforth, Cumberland. 
Very highly Commended. — Class II. 
Situation. — 1 am now about to describe an excellent and ex- 
tremely well-cultivated little farm, which ran its competitors so 
bard that it was commended to the notice of the Council for a 
third prize. " Boonwood," Mr. Benson's farm, is just on the 
skirts of the village of Gosforth, and in the immediate vicinity 
of the finest and wildest lake and mountain scenery in England. 
Wastwater lies at a distance of only four miles, and the " Screes ' 
which dip into that lake are visible, together with Scawfell and 
all the mountain masses which lie at the head of the lake, from 
almost every portion of the farm. Towards the west lies a some- 
what dreary tract of black sand between this and the sea, which 
at the aspiring bathing village of Seascale is only about three 
miles distant. The nearest market-town is Egremont, about five 
miles to the north, and Whitehaven is about ten miles off. 
Soil and Subsoil. — The farm is only 100 acres in extent. It 
is held of the representatives of the late Mr. Henry Tyson of 
Gosforth, and there are 7 years yet unexpired of a 15 years' 
lease. It is strongish red land on the Sandstone formation, 
with good freestone beneath. Its elevation above the sea is 
inconsiderable (from 300 to 360 feet), but from its position, 
dominating as it does the flat country and lying near the base 
of the mountains, it commands very interesting prospects, on the 
