Typical Farms in Fast Anglia. 
515 
£ s. d. 
for year ended October 11, 1891 , , , 514 1 1 
„ „ „ 1892 . . . 520 18 6 
„ „ „ 1893 . . . 538 3 8 
During the first year 6 calves were sold, realising 20/. 14s. 9 d . ; but no 
calves were sold the two following years, nor was there any value put 
upon odds and ends of milk given to the pigs. While speaking of the dairy 
and the interest taken in it by the ladies of the family, it may be well to 
state what was done last year with poultry, although no money statement 
was given. There were reared last year 177 chickens, 33 turkeys, and 
44 ducklings, and during the season 2,200 eggs were collected. 
With regard to the sheep, the ewes are large-framed crosses be- 
tween the Suffolk and Cotswold, and the tups used are of the Oxford Down 
breed. 
Cake and corn are freely used in the feeding flock, and the whole of the 
young sheep are expected to be off the farm fat when they are about twelve 
months old. 
It is quite beyond the province of this short notice of Mr. Morton’s farm 
and stock to speak of the West Itudham Hall Shire horses. Mr. Morton is 
well known as a judge and famous breeder of heavy horses, and the inspec- 
tion of the mares with their foals, and the young stock in the fields, was 
most interesting. 
12. The Farm of Mr. W. E. Learner, Dilham, Norfolk. 
Situated 20 to 47 feet above sea level, with an average district rainfall 
of 26£ inches, this is a farm of superior land on a sand, gravel, and partly 
clay subsoil. With the exception of one field it is in a compact block inter- 
cepted with country and farm roads, and well fenced with well-kept, low 
hedges. It is held from two owners, F. H. Windham, Esq., and Mr. 
H. M. Taylor, in about equal proportions, while 10 acres are rented from the 
Honing Poor Trustees. The following figures show the extent of land, pay- 
ments, &c. : — 
Arable 
Grass 
Rent and tithes 
Rates 
Average 
labour bill 
Labour 
per acre 
acres 
501 
acres 
T18, all\ 
\ grazed J 
1,027 7 6 
S. (J. 
81 0 0 
£ *. d. 
856 7 0 
£ s. d. 
1 13 0 
Mr. Learner has kept strictly to the four-course rotation of cropping ; 
this is wheat, roots, barley, and then seeds — i.e. clovers and rye-grass. 
For the past few years a portion of the clover lays, 15 to 20 acres of cow 
grass, after being fed off till the first week of June, have been allowed to grow 
and ripen to be cut and saved for seed in the autumn. As this has been a 
profitable crop, some 14 acres of white clover is to be seeded this year. 
Both these fields of cowgrass and white clover looked well, being a full 
plant and free from weeds. The land is all clean and beautifully farmed ; 
at the time of my visit the clover-seed fields were being carefully gone 
over and hand weeded. To save the land from becoming clover-sick 
different seeds are sown in alternate rotation, so that there are generally 
eight years between the croppings of the same variety of clovers. 
One could not fail to admire the general excellence of the corn crops, 
while the hay and roots were also most promising. 
