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Farm Pnze Competition, 1907. 
The horses are of the “ shire ” type, good-looking, and well 
adapted for their work. They lie out at grass all night during 
summer and receive one stone of corn per head per day all the 
year round, the corn mixture consisting generally of two 
parts maize, one part oats, one part of either bran or home- 
grown meals. During winter the horses receive cut oat or 
barley straw with their corn. A linseed-gruel tub is kept in 
the stable, each horse receiving a good helping thrown over its 
“ feed,” the allowance being at the rate of one linseed cake 
per horse per week. The cart-horses were at one time bred 
at Burton, but, the grass land not being good enough to grow 
good bone and substance, the tenant found it more economical to 
buy horses and keep the land for his cattle. His plan is to 
buy young horses and break them in, frequently selling them 
afterwards for town work. Another consideration is that 
where there is much spring work mares in foal are rather a 
handicap. 
Sheep. — The flock, like the farm, has descended from father 
to son. The sheep are of the Lincoln Long Wool Breed, and 
are entered in the Flock Book. No ewes have been brought 
in but all the rams i;sed are bought and include purchases' 
from the best known flocks in the countj'. While not attempt- 
ing to breed for the ram market, Mr. Evens produces a good 
farmer’s sheep, the Judges seeing several young rams, not 
over-fed but in good healthy breeding condition, which, 
although not of the highest class, were really useful sheep, 
likely to do well for their buyers. Usually about 350 ewes are 
kept, a third of which are brought in as shearlings, the draft 
ewes being fed off. The management of the flock calls for no 
further comment, than that it is “ well-cared for.” 
Pigs. — The pigs were of the Lincoln Curlj' Breed, well 
suited for the purpose for which they wei’e kept, viz., to 
supply the house and the farm labourers. 
Cattle. — Mr. Evens breeds the best of Lincoln Red Cattle, all 
of which are entered in the Lincoln Herd Book. These w^ere 
far and away the best lot and the largest herd of dairy cattle 
seen by the Judges on any farm. The forty milking cows were 
a sight which probably cannot be equalled on any other farm 
in Lincolnshire. 
History of the Burton Herd. 
Lincoln Red Short-horns have been bred for many genera- 
tions on the Burton Farm, but up to 1885 the ordinary custom 
of the district was followed, viz., breeding and rearing ; the 
steer calves were grown on for beef, the young cows reared their 
own calves, and were sold at about the third calf to go into 
town dairies. In 1885 the present owner of the herd decided 
