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At  Parkside,  twelve  cart  horses  are  kept  ; also  one  or  two 
light  horses  for  the  milk  trade,. 
From  thirty  to  sixty  pigs  are  fed  during  the  summer  with 
the  residue  from  the  cheese-making  and  any  food  left  by  the 
cows  during  the  first  flush  of  grass  ; the  small  unmarketable 
potatoes  are  also  given,  and  some  meal  to  finish  them  off. 
The  pigs  are  all  bought  in  as  stores,  none  being  bred. 
The  buildings  at  Parkside  are  good.  Some  have  been 
erected  by  the  tenant  at  his  own  expense. 
The  Grinsome  Farm  consists  of  211  acres.  The  cropping 
for  the  year  was  as  follows  : — 
27 
acres 
Potatoes 
18 
Roots 
15 
First  Year’s  Seeds 
13 
n • 
Second  „ 
28 
Oats 
40 
u 
Meadow  for  mowing 
70 
51  * 
Pasture,  temporary  and  permanent 
The  stock  consists  of  ninety-seven  milking  cows,  two  bulls, 
twenty  heifers,  four  cart  horses,  and  one  horse  for  the  milk 
trade. 
The  same  treatment  of  land  and  stock  applies  on  this  farm 
as  at  Parkside.  Here  the  cropping  and  stock-carrying  capacity 
has  been  greatly  increased. 
The  two  farms  are  connected  with  the  National  Telephone, 
which  provides  ready  inter-communication. 
There  are  nine  cottages  at  Parkside  occupied  by  married 
men,  four  of  whom  have  sons  working  on  the  farm.  There 
i*re  also  four  men  boarding  in  the  farm  house,  and  Irish  labour 
is  employed  in  addition. 
The  head  cowman  is  paid  one  guinea  per  week  and  his  house, 
the  foreman  receiving  25s.  per  week,  and  overtime  is  allowed  for 
extra  work  done.  About  six  Irishmen  are  kept  through  the 
winter,  because  of  the  difficulty  of  obtaining  workmen  in  the 
early  spring. 
The  general  standing  wages  for  stockmen  and  labourers  are 
18s.  per  week,  and  free  cottage  and  garden,  with  overtime. 
The  cottagers  are  also  supplied  with  seed  potatoes  for  their 
gardens.  No  beer  is  given  on  the  farm.  Bread  and  cheese  and 
tea  are  supplied  twice  daily  during  the  potato  lifting  season, 
and  during  hay  and  corn  harvests. 
The  potatoes  are  all  lifted  by  piece-work  by  a gang  of 
sixteen  men,  who  also  do  the  milking  during  summer,  the  price 
paid  being  2d.  per  score  yards  up  the  drill.  The  standing  wage 
for  Irishmen  (when  not  on  piece-work)  is  16s.  per  week,  with 
bread,  cheese,  and  tea  allowance.  The  average  earnings  at 
piece-work  are  5s.  per  day. 
