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The Farm Prize Gom,}>etitwn of 1892. 
under rather different conditions, they were both well done as 
to general cultivation of the land and also management. Had 
not the competition been so keen in this class, these farms must 
have taken a high position. In fact, any one of the six farms 
enumerated would have been worthy of a prize in almost any 
competition. 
Class II. — First Prize Farm. 
Occupied Inj Mr. Josiah Penny., Biidbrooh, WarwicJc. 
Mr. Denny’s farm is about 2^ miles east of Warwick. The 
tenancy is a yearly one under Lord Dormer. The area is 150 
acres, 3 roods, 24 poles ; about 84 being arable and the remain- 
der pasture. The soil is a very tenacious marl or clay, and 
extremely dijSicult to work, four horses at length being re- 
quired to plough it. The only exception to this is a few acres 
in one field, which is a sharp gravel on a yellow clay. The farm 
has been in Mr. Denny’s occupation forty years, and during 
that time many fences have been pulled down and fresh ones 
planted, many fields being enlarged and the boundaries of others 
straiglitened. An absolutely clean farm is V'eiy difficult to find, 
but this approaches as near to that ideal as any that it has been 
our lot to visit. The seven and nine-course system are followed 
on this holding. In the seven-course the following is the order : 
Fallow or turnips, barley, seeds, wheat, beans, wheat, oats. In 
tlie nine-course, beans are substituted for oats and the oats ai’e 
manured. 
The farm is bounded on its eastern side by the Napton and 
Birmingham Canal, and Mr. Denny takes advantage of the faci- 
lities of carriage afforded by this means to make use of about 
2,000 tons of Birmingham refuse at a cost of 50/. An expendi- 
ture of rather over 21. per acre for cake, corn, and feeding stuffs 
keeps up the fertility of the soil. 
The fai’m buildings, stables, &c., are compact and well ar- 
ranged, all spouted and well drained, and in thorough repair. 
There is a good cow-house capable of holding six cows, and the 
yards and mangers all have Avater laid on. 
A large portion of the farm has been drained, the tenant 
finding tiles and labour. 
Horses . — Four horses are kept on the firm. These are a good 
working team. 
Cattle. — Forty-one head of Shorthorn cattle were kept in the 
yard at our first visit, viz. four feeding cows, five milking cows, 
one calf heifer, fifteen two -year-olds, twelve calves, and four wean- 
ing calves. Both the cows and young stock were a very creditable 
