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Typical Farms in Fast Anglia. 
At the time of my visit, there were only 27 cattle on the farm, as the 
bullocks intended for winter feeding were on the marshes for the summer. 
Fro n 250 to 300 bullocks are fed off during the winter, nearly all of 
them in boxes, when the whole of the manure, rich through the use of 
large quantities of cake, is made under cover. 
Several conveniently situated buildings, substantially and carefully 
divided into feeding boxes, have been built to save labour in root and 
manure carting. 
There are no drains from the feeding boxes ; the great quantity of grain 
grown on the farm allows the free use of straw as litter, and the dung is 
carted from the boxes to heaps in the fields, full of liquid manure. The 
dung-heaps are twice turned before being carted on the land, the clover 
lays before being ploughed for wheats, getting about 10 loads per acre. 
Very little artificial manure is used on the farm ; the roots being grown 
with about 10 loads of farmyard dung and 2 cwt. of mineral superphosphate 
per acre. No statement was made as to the gross quantity of cake con- 
sumed annually, but all the feeding cattle were said to get whatever quan- 
tity of cake they could or would fairly eat. 
With 300 bullocks on a full ration of cake the manure must be rich, and 
the condition of the soil and crops was sufficient evidence of this. In good 
times, when wheat made a fair price and beef made 7 d. to 8 d. per lb., such 
a system of farming as I have attempted to describe was doubtless a profit- 
able one, but one can quite understand Mr. Learner’s anxiety for the ports 
again to be open, so that Canadian store cattle may be available as fattening 
stock. 
Only a small percentage of the British farmers want to see these Western 
store stock brought into the country, and if they are kept out I have no doubt 
that a man with Mr. Learner’s energy will soon adapt his system to meet 
the changed conditions under which he may have to farm. 
Of the 17 cattle on the farm 8 or 10 were what are termed road bul- 
locks. These had been bought in during May, and under the care of a lad 
were grazed on the roads spoken of as running through the farm. 
During the heat of the day and at night they were shut up in a covered 
yard, and while keeping the roadsides and hedge backs tidy, with the help of 
cake and meal when under cover they were likely to grow into money. 
There were in the boxes in the homeyard 7 animals in preparation for 
the shows, and a very gocd lot they were. One, a pure bred Hereford heifer, 
was afterwards a prize winner at the Cambridge Meeting of the Royal 
Agricultural Society. 
Amongst several good steers a roan polled cross-bred to be shown in the 
class of steers under three years of age at Christmas, seems a most promising 
one, while a pure bred Shorthorn and a Hereford are also very good. 
Thirty-four horses were upon the farm, 24 to work the land, 1 Shire 
stallion, 6 foals, and three hackney mares and geldings. 
One hundred and sixty lambs had just been bought and were being fed 
on a field of rich clover with a full allowance of cake. These wese expected 
to be fit to go off in autumn. 
A fair stock of poultry is kept in two movable houses ; these are shifted 
about the farm to pick up what may be left when the stacks are threshed at 
the different buildings. 
13. The Farms of M u. G ah rett Taylor, at Whitlingham, 
Trowse, and Kirby, Norfolk. 
This large and intensely interesting stretch of farming is held by Mr. 
Taylor from three landlords— the Corporation of Norwich, Messrs. J. & J. Col- 
man, and Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P. 
