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Horses. — These are of the Clydesdale type, very good and 
well up to their work. They are all bought at four years old, 
worked and sold at six years old for town and Corporation 
work. There is a good demand for this class of horse, and 
good animals realise high prices. The horses lie out at grass 
all night during the summer months and receive three feeds of 
rolled oats per head per day when at work. During winter 
they get four feeds of rolled oats, long hay, and bran mash. A 
little linseed cake is given along with the oats. 
Sheep. — The flock of English Leicesters has come to Mr. 
Harrison from his grandfather and uncle. There are sixty 
ewes, and they average one and a half lambs each. The lamb- 
ing time is during February and March, the ewes receiving 
1 lb. per head per day of mixed Waterloo cake and corn until 
the lambs begin to eat. The cake and corn is then taken off 
the ewes, as the trouble is to keep them lean. The lambs 
receive a little cake and corn all the summer. They are weaned 
in July and the ram lambs put on to the clover fog. Half of the 
ram lambs are sold for crossing, for which they are particularly 
well adapted where early maturity fat lambs are wanted. They 
average between four and five guineas each. The other half are 
retained for shearlings for pure flocks and to supply foreign 
customers. By far the greater number go abroad to all parts of 
the world at prices averaging from 157. to 25 1. per head. The 
lambs first run on the clover fog, then on the kale, from the 
kale to the cabbage, then to turnips, which they receive on the 
grass land, commencing about December. After weaning time 
the ewes are put on the barest pasture that can be found until 
fourteen days before tupping time, when they are put on to 
good old land fog ; this method insuring a good crop of lambs. 
The ewes remain on the grass until snow comes, when they 
receive as much good old land hay as they care to eat and two 
turnips per ewe per day. 
Cattle. — The cattle are indeed a grand lot. The breeding 
is nearly all done at Park Farm. Mr. Harrison’s aim being to 
produce good dual-purpose animals for milk and beef, he intro- 
duces into his herd the best bulls he can get hold of and retains 
the best of his heifers, also buying in a good heifer calf or cow 
when desirable. The cows are allowed to suckle their calves, 
and are hand-milked as well, until such time as the calf can 
take all the milk. Foster mothers are not kept, each cow rear- 
ing her own calf. During winter the cows receive meal mash 
twice a day with the addition of a little bran and plenty of 
good hay. The meal mash consists of a mixture of oat meal, 
maize germ meal, and decorticated meal. During summer the 
cows have the grass only. The calves come in during the day 
and go out at night during the hot weather, and vice versa in the 
