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The Cumberland and Westmoreland 
Mr. Rothery's Farm. 
Mr. Rothery's small farm near Cockermouth is only notice- 
able as an example of what an industrious careful man can 
do, even with bad land. Mr. Rothery is a good instance 
of a self-made man, a real peasant-farmer of the best type. In 
service till long after middle age, he yet seized an oppor- 
tunity which presented itself, and by his immense industry 
has succeeded in making his way, notwithstanding the dis- 
advantage of cultivating very poor land in a bad climate. His 
management is deserving of great praise, and long may such 
examples be followed by others of his race. 
Mr Shepherd's Farm. 
jMr. Shepherd's farm does not call for any special notice. It 
is in a secluded country, some five or six miles west of Appleby. 
It was a matter of regret to the Judges that the Pastoral 
Farms Classes attracted so little competition. The two farms 
reported below divided the honours, not a single entry having 
been made in the smaller farm class. In a district where tillage 
is of so little importance this must be considered a somewhat 
remarkable circumstance. Mr. Leathes' farm, as will be found 
from the report, partakes of the character of a tillage farm to a 
large extent. Mr. Mounsey's occupation is almost entirely a 
Herd wick sheep-run. 
Mr. Leathes' Farm, Lamplugh Hall, Cumberland. 
First Prize Pastoral Farm. — Class III. 
Situation. — Just on the western verge of the Lake district, 
where the mountains slope off into the undulating ground which 
stretches to the Solway and the Irish Sea, is situated Lamplugh 
Hall Farm, occupied by Mr. Leathes, to whom was awarded the 
first prize in the first class of Pastoral Farms. 
To the north-east, separated only by a small intervening 
height, lies the Lake of Loweswater, and a short distance to the 
south is Ennerdale, with its lake and valley shut in by preci- 
pitous fells. To the west, stretching away towards St. Bees and 
Whitehaven, is the high moorland country whose mineral 
wealth is worked by the railway which traverses its slopes, and 
extends from Cleator (north of Egremont) to Marron, its junction 
with the Cockermouth and Workington line. To the north the 
