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Farm Prize Competition, 1907. 
homestead, including all the “ live and dead ” stock thereat, 
afterwards taking the fields and any further stock on the 
farm. The state of the fields cropped in the autumn received 
attention, as also any remaining portion of the root crops 
grown in 1900 and their disposal. In this connection it may 
be interesting to note that it is not customary in Lincolnshire 
to pull the swede turnips and put them into heaps. The 
swedes are left in the ground until required, ■when, the 
sheep being folded on, the requisite quantity is pulled and 
“ cut ” to them from day to day. The idea is that the roots 
come cleaner off the ground than out of the heaps, and who 
shall challenge the great Lincolnshire flock masters as to 
their management of sheep ? But “ Jack Frost ” is a fickle 
personage whose fancies in the early part of 1907 will be 
long remembered by root growers in the county. It was a 
sad sight to see row after row of what were once well-grown 
swedes red need to a mass of putrid pulp. Consideration was 
also given to the preparation of the land for the spring-sowing 
of cereals, roots, and other crops, and the state of the gates, 
fences, roads, ditches, and cottages, so far as the tenant is 
liable, &c., was noted in passing. The Judges were in all cases 
accompanied by the competitors, to whom their thanks are due 
for information readily given. The result of this first visit 
was to reduce the Competition to much smaller compass, the 
Judges considering that it would be necessary to re-visit the 
following farms only : — 
Classb.s I. AND III. (Farms Exceeding 300 Acres). 
Competitor’s Name 
Entry 
W. Banks . 
C. Bowser . 
J. Casswell. 
J. Evens 
J. Robinson 
W. Searby . 
ti . u veus 
H. Minta . 
T. Phillips . 
T. Barraud . 
]j. W. Stephenson 
J. Todd 
E. Allen 
County, Combined Hunts, and Belvoir Special. 
Countj^ onl}\ 
County and Belvoir Special. 
County and Combined Hunts. 
County, Combined Hunts, and Belvoir Speeial. 
County only. 
County and Combined Hunts. • 
County and Combined Hunts. 
County and Combined Hunts. 
County, Combined Hunts, and Blankney Special. 
Combined Hunts and Blankney Special. 
Combined Hunts and Belvoir Special. 
Classes II. and IV. (Farms over 50 and not 
Exceeding 300 Acres). 
Competitor's Nome 
E. Burkitt . 
F. Fisher . 
E. Glassup . 
Hensman & Son . 
C. Kent 
H. Neesham 
County and Combined Hunts. 
County, Combined Hunts, and Belvoir Special. 
County and Belvoir Special. 
County and Combined Hunts. 
County and Combined Hunts. 
County, Combined Hunts, and Blankney Special. 
, Entry 
