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The Farm Prize Competition of 1892. 
extraordinary crop, tlie only fear being that, in the event of 
heavy rains, it might get lodged before fully in ear. Another 
field of Webb’s Kinver Chevalier had been a little cut up with 
wireworm. It was laid down with seeds, and was rather full 
of annual weeds. 
Eather more Oats than barley are grown on this farm, and 
one field, being sown on a wheat stubble, and top dressed with 
5 cwt. of soot per acre, looked like being a very grand crop. In 
fact, the whole of the oats looked remarkably well and very free 
from weeds, though the drouorht had affected them in some 
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places. 
Seeds were a very stout crop. Part of the field had a dressing 
of Birmingham refuse, and the other one of farmyard manure, 
both being applied in the autumn ; and we were of opinion that 
the side on which the former had been used was rather the 
heavier crop. 
Mangel was one of the best crops that we had seen on 
our rounds. All had been singled, and left a very level plant, 
with scarcely a weed to be found. Swedes are sown on the 
ridge about 20 inches apart, and with a dressing of about 60 
tons per acre of Birmingham refuse. They were being horse- 
lioed, and were a very even plant. The white turnips had not 
been sown. 
The Grass laiids had suffered more from the drought than 
the arable. This is to be accounted for by the fact that there is 
nowhere more than six inches of soil abov'e the gravel. The 
fields that were shut up for hay, what with the drought, and 
having been fed late into the spring, looked like producing a 
very small haystack. 
Mr. Willday tells us he takes the work with the men, and 
we consider him a hard-working, industrious young farmer. 
Class III. — Second Prize Farm. 
Occupied hy Mrs. A. B. and Mr. S. K. Spencer, The Mount, 
Blachhill, Snitterfield, near Stratford-on-Avon. 
This farm comprises 126 acres, 78 arable and 48 grass, and 
has been held from Lady Trevelyan on a yearly tenancy since 
1879. 
A pretty drive of four miles from Stratford-on-Avon 
brought us to this farm. The house is situated on a hill over- 
looking the valley of the Avon, and commands very fine and 
extensive views, the Malvern Hills, forty miles distant, being 
visible on a clear day. 
The farm buildings are roomy and convenient, and well 
