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tained beyond that age up to 3^ years. Oaly the choicest are 
taken in and fed until Clnistmas, when their weights range 
from forty to fifty score. The rest are all finished on grass 
alone, tasting neither cake nor corn, unless there is a bad grass 
year and extra food becomes necessary. Fed off on grass alone 
they weigh well up towards forty score, some making quite that 
weight. No stores are sold, but a few are bought and fed off 
with the home-bred steers. 
The practice of Mr. W. Hancock differs in several important 
particulars from that which we have just considered, and for 
reasons which the circumstances rule. Mr. Hancock, resident 
in the town of Wiveliscombe, and not dependent on agriculture, 
is nevertheless an ardent agriculturist. His buildings and land 
(the Culverhay Farm) are in the precincts and immediate neigh- 
bourhood of the town, to which he supplies regularly a large 
quantity of milk, making thereby a substantial yearly addition to 
his income. The births average about thirty-five in the year, and 
are distributed over the twelve months, to keep the milk- supply 
as constant and as even as possible. All the calves are suckled by 
cows. In one respect the management resembles Mr. Kidner’s ; 
that is, in freeing some cows from nurse-duty to get their milk, 
and giving their calves to other cows, which rear two together, 
and sometimes, when one calf is weaned, take another in its place. 
The calves are weaned at the age of twelve or fourteen weeks. 
They are wintered ou mangel, chaff, cake aiid oats or other 
corn, apportioned according to age. The larger calves go out 
to grass in spring, the smaller not until midsummer. The 
steers are sold off as stores at about two yeai’s old, excepting a 
very few selected for home feeding. The latter, almost entirely 
grass-fed, are taken in for only a short time at the last, 
prime steers, being well-bred and of a generous beef-making 
sort, although bred from capital dairy cows, thus confirming the 
opinion of Mr. Watt, already cited. These steers, and breeding 
animals also exhibited, bring home many prizes from the 
Dunster annual show in December. The general health-record 
of the herd is excellent. Losses from milk-fever are unknown, 
and “ quarter-ill,” a trouble in some parts of the West of 
England, has seldom appeared upon the Culverhay Farm. 
Mr. Stephen Bailey, of Hornshay, Nynehead, Wellington, 
Somerset, has a representative steer-breeding herd, producing 
about twenty-five calves annually, which come not at any one 
season but all the year through. He inherited his herd, which 
was brought to its present home by his grandfather in the year 
1802, and has still some of the old strain of blood, with impor- 
tant additions by purchase. For some years he tried Short- 
