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lambing time, which is about February 20. Forty gimmers 
are broiight into the flock every year, receiving an allowance 
of cut oat-straw and clover, with \ lb. cotton cake per head, as 
soon as put on to the roots. Lambs are weaned in July and 
run on clover and gi-ass “ eddishes.” They are enticed to eat 
a little cake and corn whilst with the ewes, and have pens made 
specially separate from their dams. When on grass “ eddish ” 
they get cabbage and a few turnips before being finally folded 
on roots, with an allowance of crushed oats, &c., which is 
gradually increased to \ lb. per head per day in the spring, 
when all are finished off fat. All the males are kept as x’ams, 
and twenty of the best are picked out in the spring, clipped 
early, and disposed of in the following autumn at good prices. 
For several years both rams and gimmers have been sold for 
exportation to Buenos Ayres. All the females are kept, 
forty of the best being retained in the flock, and the remainder 
clipped, grazed, and sold the following autumn for breeding 
purposes. These lately have made very remunerative prices. 
The i-emaining ram hogs are clipped befox-e going to market, 
the last two yeax-s’ clip of wool has beexi very heavy, the ewes’ 
and hogs’ fleeces averaging a trifle over 14 lb. each, axxd for 
ixxaxiy years the hogs avei-aged ixiore. 
Buildings, &c. — The farm-house, buildings, fences, gates, and 
I'oads are kept in texxantable x-epair by the texxaxxt, the bixildings 
beixxg also iixsixred by him agaixxst fire. 
Drainage. — The laxxdlord fixxds tiles axxd the tenant the 
labour. 
Labour. — The cost of laboixr averages aboixt 30s. per acre, 
the daily wage paid being 2s. 9rf. ixx summer axxd 2s. 6(7. in 
winter. The hax-vest wox-k is all let to “ get into stack ” at 11s. 
per acre. Tixrnip hoeixxg, hedge trimming, axxd layering are also 
let. Yearly laboux-ers average about 11. jxer week with house 
and gardexx, potatoes, axxd 30 stoixes of bacon. The foreman 
receives axx additioxxal allowance of 10s. per week each for the 
boax'd of two lads, together with 30 stones of bacoix for each 
lad, a cow beixxg also allowed. Coal is found for the shepherd 
dixx’ing lambing time, axxd he receives a boxxus of 6(7. per head 
for each lamb x’eared up to weanixxg tixixe. 
Improvements. — The tenant stated that this farm was in a 
very foul axxd bad state of cultivation when he entered on it 
thirty years ago, three out of five fields oix the strong land 
“Cars” had to be summer fallowed during the first year, and, 
owing to the wet summer of 1879, two of them the following 
year also. The whole of the arable and grass land has been 
thoroughly drained with 6 in. outfall and 3 in. snxall drains. 
This was done twenty-seven years ago and is as good as ever. 
The effect of this drainage has beexx most beneficial. Excepting 
