£26 
Farm Prize Competition , 1908 . 
for fodder and the sowing is done at different times so as to 
ensure a continuous supply. Thousand-head kale is grown for 
the lambs, and Mr. Harrison considers it splendid for them. 
It does not spoil with mildew or frost, and is safe eating, not 
producing looseness. The preparation of the land is the same 
as for the tares, with the exception that in this case the land is 
ridged up into rows twenty-four inches apart ; the crop is not 
thinned but allowed to grow at will, the idea being that this 
method produces less waste and less stalkiness. The land 
which has been growing wheat, tares, kale, &c., all comes in 
for roots, and is now thoroughly cleaned and tilled and then 
manured as before mentioned. 
There are 52 acres of useful old grass land at the Hall 
Farm — of these 32 acres are mown every year and 20 always 
grazed. In the 32 acres of mowing grass there is a field of 12 
acres which has been “ sheep folded ” every year. This field has 
improved very much indeed both in quantity and quality of 
herbage. The remainder of the mowing grass gets farm-yard 
manure every year except each fifth year, when it receives 
instead 3 cwt. per acre of precipitated bone phosphate. 
The 20 acres of pasture receive no manorial treatment. The 
grass is useful, but liable to scorch. It is good for milk 
production, particularly if there is plenty of rain. The 98 
acres of grass at the Park Farm are finer in the herbage and 
require more careful treatment. There are 35 acres of old 
meadow grass. This grass is manured during autumn and 
spring with farm-yard manure from the buildings which lie 
most conveniently in the centre of the Park Farm fields. 
This manure from the byres is filled into carts from day to day 
and led out direct on to the land, which is thus manured piece- 
meal and labour is saved. The remaining 63 acres consist of 
pasture, of which a portion has received annually 3 cwt. per 
acre precipitated bone phosphate, and another 4 cwt. per acre 
superphosphate during the last three years, and so far the 
precipitated bone phosphate shows the better result. At Park 
Farm there is a most useful lot of buildings, to which the 
landlord, Mr. Kitchin, has just added four excellent calf boxes 
at the tenant’s request, the latter paying a percentage on the 
capital outlay. The live stock on the farm at the time of 
inspection was as follows : — 
Horses 
Geldings (working) 4 
Ponies . . .2 
6 
Pigs 
Large White 
Breeding Sows . 2 
Sheep 
Ewes 
. 60 
She Hogs 
. 26 
Tup Hogs 
. 17 
Bams 
. 3 
106 
Poultry 
160 
Cattle 
Stud Bulls . . 2 
Young Bulls . 19 
Pedigree Cows . 33 
Non-pedigree Cows 1 2 
Young Heifers . 27 
Suckling Calves . 10 
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