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long hay at night to enable them to raise the cud. The cake 
is given dry, and roots and cabbages are given twice — morning 
and afternoon. 
Buildings. — These are maintained by the .landlord and 
consist of four sets fairly up to date and convenient. Two of 
these — more old fashioned — are being improved by the landlord, 
who is also adding covered yards. 
Implements. — The farm was well supplied with good imple- 
ments all of which appeared to be well looked after. 
Fences, dates, and Occupation Roads are maintained by the 
tenant and all were in good order". 
Drainage had been much improved, the landlord finding 
the tiles, the tenant the labour. 
Book-keeping. — The books kept consist of Labour Book, 
Cash Book, and Ledger, also the necessary Stock Books and 
Milk Registers. Mr. Evens considers that so long as a farmer 
keeps a record of his transactions which will enable him to 
strike a balance in “ Profit and Loss ” Account he does all that 
is necessary. 
Costs. — Mr. Evens has kindly supplied the following items 
of expenditure per acre taken on a twelve years’ average, and 
these serve to indicate the thorough system of farming pursued. 
Rent, 30s. ; Rates, 3s. ; Labour, 28s. 6<i. ; Cake and Artificial 
Manures, 34s. 6rf. ; Tradesmen’s Bills, 10s. ; Sundries, including 
Stock bought, 14s. 
In concluding this description of Burton Farm it is impos- 
sible to refrain from speaking of Mr. Evens in the highest 
terms as being a thoroughly practical, methodical, and business- 
like farmer. It was a real pleasure to see land so clean and so 
well cultivated, and to look over such an excellent collection 
of stock. The whole farm was in splendid order and pro- 
ductive to its utmost capacity — a fact sufficiently evident to the 
Judges without any perusal of the well-kept and cai'efully 
audited books. Everything was neat and tidy, the gates, fences, 
and roads, &c., were all that could be desired, and the manage- 
ment of the dairy excellent. The lesson here taught is to farm 
well, and the Judges had great pleasure in awarding to 
Mr. Evens the First Prize of 60Z. in the County Class, a pleasure 
afterwards enhanced by the knowledge that his success had 
met with the kindly appreciation in tangible form of his 
landlord. Lord Monson. Both had good reason to be proud. 
Class I. — Second Prize Farm. 
(Farms over 300 acres). 
Occupied by Mr. John Todd, Kirkhy Oreen. 
For the last twenty years Mr. Todd has farmed two separate 
holdings on the estate of the Right Hon. Henry Chaplin, M.P., 
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