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With the exception of the barley crop, a portion of which is 
sold, all the produce is consumed at home by the stock, and in 
addition Mr. Harrison buys 300 quarters of oats per annum. 
Here then is a little farm of 226 acres carrying 109 head of 
the best of Shorthorn Cattle, and 106 of the best of old English 
Leicester Sheep. Indeed, the Shorthorns and the sheep made 
a show in themselves. The horses were all good and working 
into money, one four-year-old gelding especially looking like a 
rentpayer. The grass land was evidently all much improved, 
and the corn crops very clean and good. The arable land 
strikes one as being naturally of only moderate quality, but 
which has been much improved. 
Selection and breeding founded on such wonderful judg- 
ment as Mr. Harrison displays must and does mean successful 
stock farming, both in cattle and sheep, which is of benefit 
to the country and to the world at large, as well as to the breeder 
himself. Good judgment does not end with the stock, as over 
the whole of the farm — arable and grass land alike — there is 
shown the same care and thoroughness. 
Clean land in high condition best describes the farming, and 
good crops pi’ove the success of it. Go where you will all is 
characterised by thoroughness and cleanliness, and by a desire 
to produce and to have only what is best in crop and stock. 
The Judges had no hesitation in selecting Mr. Harrison’s farm 
for the First Prize in Class 2. 
Class II. — Second Prize Farm. 
Occupied, by Mr. Fenwick Wilson, Harden, Whitley Bay. 
This farm consists of 221 acres, of which 170 are arable, 
and 47 grass. It is held on a yearly tenancy under the Duke 
of Northumberland, and has been farmed by Mr. Wilson since 
1885. The soil is of a somewhat mixed character, varying 
from strong to a light loam, with subsoils of gravel and clay. 
The character of the strong clayish soil has been materially 
modified by heavy dressings of town manure and town refuse, 
which latter Mr. Wilson has delivered to him in large 
quantities free of charge ; in fact he is paid for the “ privilege ” 
of dumping. The rotation adopted here is : Roots, "wheat, seeds, 
seeds, potatoes, wheat, oats. The land for roots gets from 
fifty to sixty loads per acre of scavenging manure before being 
ploughed in the autumn.; it is cross-ploughed in the spring, 
cultivated and cleaned, then ploughed a third time, afterwards 
being set up in ridges and manured with farm- yard manure at 
the rate of 15 tons per acre. Excellent crops of turnips are 
grown on this land. The singling and hoeing of the turnips is 
done by piece-work at 9s. per acre, the second hoeing being 
