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Typical Farms in East Anglia. 
grain crop is reaped, 8 to 10 loads per acre of farmyard manure is spread 
during the winter, and greatly aids the clovers and grasses. Any bleached 
straw or rough manure which may be on the surface in the spring is raked 
up and carted off, so as to prevent damage to the hay. 
A large quantity of farmyard manure is made on the holding, and every 
care is taken of it. In the fields several large heaps were carefully squared 
up, with shallow trenches cut all round them. These led into holes or 
temporary pits at the several corners of the heaps, to serve as tanks from 
which auy liquid manure exuding from the heaps could be laved back again. 
All the grain crops were heavy— too heavy, I fear, for the weather fol- 
lowing my visit. The hay was good and well mixed with clovers. The roots 
were a full plant, although up to the beginning of June they bad grown 
slowly. All the land was clean. 
Interesting as were the crops, the live stock on the farm were such as to 
leave a deep impression on the mind of anyone privileged to see them. There 
were altogether- 
124 horses, 1 mule, and 1 
donkey. 
279 cattle. 
1273 sheep. 
47 pigs. 
And 318 head of poultry. 
The horses consisted of — 
5 Shire stallions. 
42 Shire working mares and 
horses. 
16 Shire fillies and geldings. 
10 foals. 
11 Hackney stallions. 
17 Hackney mares. 
8 Hackney fillies. 
5 Hackney foals. 
1 Hackney gelding. 
5 milk-cart horses. 
2 stewards’ horses 
1 mule. 
1 donkey. 
The cattle, all Red Polled pedigree animals, comprised — 
103 cows in milk. 
13 dry cows. 
30 heifers in calf. 
37 yearling heifers. 
36 heifer calves. 
5 bulls. 
18 bull calves. 
33 yearling steers. 
4 steer calves. 
There were in the flock — 
388 ewes. 
465 lambs. 
163 ewe hoggets. 
257 feeding sheep. 
The pigs were made up of — 
8 sows. 
4 boars. 
And of fowls there were — 
200 hens. 
66 ducks. 
25 turkeys. 
It is quite impossible for me to attempt to describe the live stock ; space 
will not allow anything beyond a passing glance at the three extraordinary 
collections — the horses, the cattle, and the sheep. 
The Shire mares with their foals were on the grass, and were wide and 
short-legged, full of quality and substance. 
Every care is taken in the selection of sires used, and both the Shire and 
11 store pigs. 
24 fat pigs. 
22 geese. 
5 guinea-fowls. 
