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Farm Prize Competition, 1907. 
present time there are at Burton no less than thirty-seven 
breeding cows and heifers that have won prizes in public milking 
trials and dairy classes. The produce of some forty cows is sent 
to Lincoln twice daily. The cow sheds, though adapted from 
old buildings, are well paved and brought as far as possible up 
to modern requirements. Water is laid on between each pair 
of cows. The whole place is kept clean and in a thoroughly 
sanitary condition, and it is always open to inspection. There 
are frequent visitors from the various dairy counties of England, 
and from the Continent and other parts of the world. Mr. 
Evens claims that he has demonstrated that, with a judiciously 
selected hei’d of Lincoln Reds, a tenant-farmer can pay his 
rent and breed cows that will combine milking capacity with 
good beef producing qualities. 
Management of the Herd. — Mr. Evens’s system of managing 
the herd is to keep all male calves entire, and should an odd 
one appear that is not quite up to the standard he is promptly 
sent to the butcher. It is rather a difficult problem to know 
how to keep up the milk production and yet introduce alien 
blood. The method adopted by Mr. Evens is to buy one or 
two of the best pure-bred dairy cows in order to breed his own 
stud-bulls. Of course he runs the risk of sex, but nevertheless 
he finds this method more satisfactory than any other. The 
system of cow feeding is also interesting. In summer it is as 
follows : In May and June, if there is an abundance of grass, 
an allowance of about 2 lb. cotton cake is given, and later, 
should grass be scarce, an additional 3 or 4 lb. of mixed meal 
or bran is allowed ; either cabbage or lucerne being thrown 
into the fields. If possible the cows are given a change of 
pasture towards autumn, and as this season advances the 
cabbage is increased to 40 or 50 lb. ; later, cabbage is replaced 
by swedes, for which mangold is substituted after Christmas, 
or as soon as ripe. 
The winter i*ation is : — 
4 Ih. Cotton Cake. 
2 lb. Malt Coombs. 
2 lb. Dried Grains. 
2 lb. Bran. 
3 lb. Mixed Meal, generally oats and wheat. 
Good oat-straw chaff is also given, long hay once a day, water 
alwaj's being kept before the stock. 
Method of Feeding. — The grains, coombs (steeped for twenty- 
four hours), bran, and meals, with a very few pulped roots, 
are mixed with good oat-straw about twenty-four hours before 
using. A few handfuls of salt are thrown in. The mixture 
must not be allowed to ferment, otherwise the milk will taste. 
The cows receive two feeds of this per day and one feed of 
