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The Farm Prize Competition 0 / 1892. 
coat for an ideal Oxford flock. They were being folded on 
mangel ground, with a small pen of white turnips each day, 
and long hay at night. Fifty ewe tegs, for making up the 
flock, were eating turnips, and having long hay and ^ lb. each 
of meal, mixed with cut clover. We considered these rather 
small in feature, and not quite up to the average quality. 
101 wether tegs in two lots were having ^ lb. of Bibby’s cake 
per day, with cut swedes and long bay. Several of these 
sheep were very lame. Ten shearlings were ready for the 
butcher. 
On our second visit, we found that the wether tegs had all 
been sold in March at an average of 48s. 6d. each. Fifty ewe 
tegs had done very well, were well grown, and had made more 
improvement than we expected. These were now having a pen 
of vetches a day. The ewes and lambs had done very badly, 
there being only 137 lambs from 121 ewes ; the former had just 
been weaned, and put on vetches. These, though nicely bred, 
were very poor and stunted. Mr. James thought the reason for 
this was that the old grass was too strong for them. 
No fixed system of cultivation is followed on this farm. 
The Wheat crop, with the exception of one field on the awkward 
land, which had lost plant a good deal and was very twitchy in 
some places, is a fine crop, but not so free from thistles and 
weeds as might be wished. 
The Barley (Goldthorp) sown, two bushels per acre, 9 inches 
between the drills, was planted partly after swedes and turnips 
fed off with the sheep, partly after mangel, the ewes being 
folded on the mangel land. It has been band-hoed and sown 
with seeds, and is a very fine crop, and unless fine weather 
follows will all be down. 
Oats . — These were Oakshott’s White Victoria, at 2^ bushels 
per acre after turnips fed off, and wei’e stout in the straw, but 
of good colour, and calculated to make a fine crop. They had 
been hand-hoed, but a good deal of scratch grass ’ was still left, 
especially in the drills. 
The Beans were sown on a barley stubble. Only a part of 
this was mucked with about 12 tons per acre, the other part 
having nothing done, as a crop of swedes had been fed off two 
years previously. They are sown 22 inches apart, and 3^ bushels 
per acre. These were not quite so good as we expected to find 
them, but no difference could be detected between the manured 
land and the other. 
‘ This is the plant variously known as goose-grass, hariff, whip-tongue’ 
cleavers, &c. Its systematic name is Galmm Aparine, L. (natural order* 
Eubiaceae). — E d. 
