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Typical Farms in Fast Anglia. 
The milk all goes to one firm in Cambridge, and the price is the same all 
the year round. This price I am not at liberty to give, but it struck me as 
being low. 
Mr. Parsons, however, explained that there was a growing competition 
in milk selling, and but for the fact that he has had a long connexion with 
the firm, and his milk has a good reputation, he could not make the price he 
does. As in the case of thousands of dairy farmers all over the country, 
abortion causes great loss and disappointment, and although much attention 
has been given to the subject, Mr. Parsons speaks of it as mysterious. 
There were no sheep on the farm at the time of my visit, but 700 to 900 
lambs are annually bought in soon after the hay is stacked. The clover, 
sainfoin, and other aftermaths are invariably eaten off with a high-class stock 
of lambs, none of the layers being twice mown or seeded. In root culture, 
kohl rabi and mangel are grown in alternate stretches across the fields, the 
former to be eaten off with sheep, and the latter to be carted home to be 
shredded and mixed with cut chaff for the cows. The lambs bought in June 
or July are invariably sold off fat by the end of March, at whatever price is 
current for mutton in the spring. In a lengthened experience Mr. Parsons 
has found that holding later, even although prices improve, upsets his whole 
system of management and causes ultimate loss through spring seeding being 
delayed. 
Little need be said with regard to the farming, as its reputation is wide 
and well deserved. 
The whole of the land is clean and the crops were all that could be de- 
sired. The fences were well kept and clean at the roots. 
The four-course system is generally carried out. Tares or vetches are 
seldom grown, but this year, owing to the failure of'last year’s clovers, some 
extent is under this crop, which is being cut green for the horses. Sainfoin 
is largely grown and very highly spoken of. It is grown alternately with 
clovers and beans. 
9. The Farm of Mr. J. B. Ellis, West Bar sham, near Walsingham, Norfolk. 
Of this large farm, 1093 acres are rented from Lady Katherine Balders, 
and 220 acres from Lord Hastings. 
Along with this, 125 acres of marsh land at some distance from the farm 
are held under yearly agreement. In all the figures in the following state- 
ments as to rent, labour, and manure expenditure, neither the extent nor the 
rent of the outlying land is considered, but it may be stated that an average 
rent, one year with another, runs to about 48s. per acre. 
In working these outlying acres in conjunction with the home farm, a 
valuation is put upon stock sent to and brought from them, so that there is 
no mixing up of accounts as to returns from the farm, although the possession 
of such marsh grass land may be, and often is, a great convenience in the 
live stock management of the farm. 
The farm is some 200 feet above sea level, and the average annual rain- 
fall may be put at 24 inches. 
The" soil varies from a good mixed one, on a chalky clay subsoil, to light, 
almost worthless, sand. 
The present tenant has held the 1093 acres for 21 years, following his 
father, who had held the farm for 56 years. He is just entering upon a 10 
years’ lease. Along with the land he has the sporting rights, and the rents 
of 11 cottages conveniently situated on the farm. 
The 220 acres held from Lord Hastings are rented at 20s. per acre with- 
out the game. There is one cottage along with this holding, and the farm 
