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Typical Farms in East Anglia. 
The horses are all Suffolk?, and the Rendlesham stud holds a very high 
position. There are 12 stallions : five of these are travelling, three are two- 
year olds, and four are yearlings. 
There are 30 mares and 13 foals, one mare having died. 
Mr. Smith’s stallion Wedgewood, 1749, was winner of the gold medal 
at the Windsor Show in 1889, and has been the sire of a very large number 
of prize-winning stock. 
The cattle are pedigree Red Polled stock, and consist of — 
With regard to the cows the object in view is milk production, the milk 
from one dairy being sent direct to London during the winter, and to the 
coast watering resorts during the summer. That of the other is retailed in 
Woodbridge. 
A milk record is carefully kept, and the first six cows, in 1891, gave 
39,688f pints, in 1892, 38,369f pints, and in 1893, 35,487j pints, or an 
average of 6,308 pints per cow per year. As to the system of rearing the 
calves, Mr. Smith says : “ The calves are allowed to suck their dams till 
they begin to eat, the herdsman, after a few days, robbing the cows before 
they are allowed to suckle, night and morning, leaving only a scanty meal 
for the calves, which have always an allowance of fresh dainty food. The 
more of this they eat the less mother’s milk the stoekeman leaves to them, 
until they are entirely weaned. This may be a primitive method, but, on 
the whole, I find it answers.” 
Sheep, as will he easily understood, form an important part of the live 
stock. A registered Hock of Suffolks is kept, and a beautifully level lot 
they are. 
The usual course of management pursued is to send the 600 ewe flock, 
soon after Michaelmas, for a month’s run on the heavy land stubbles in 
parishes some distance from home. They are then brought home, divided 
into lots, and sent to the marshes near the sea. After three or four weeks 
they are again put together, on the heath land, with a small fold of white 
turnips per day till Christmas. If roots are short they get a little cake, corn, 
or malt culms. The allowance of artificial food is gradually increased till 
lambing time. 
Fresh lambing yards are erected annually in selected fields, the shelter 
fences being constructed of furze tied up in faggots and set on end, and 
having a foothold in the soil. 
Thirty or 40 acres of rye is always provided for the earlier feed for the 
ewes and lambs. This, with the meadows, young layers, and 15 to 20 acres 
of rye and tares reserved for night folds with the lambs running forward, is 
expected to carry the flock forward to May 1. It maybe stated that during 
the entire spring all the twin lambs get cake. Trifolium, drilled on the 
wheat and oat stubble as soon as the crops are off in the autumn, is ex- 
pected to supply the flock with a fresh fold each day till June 1, when spring 
tares and oats mixed are ready, and able with the help of artificial food or 
com to carry the flock till weaning time. 
Care is taken to have a supply of mangel all through the early summer. 
These are spread in the forward fold so that the lambs get the first bite, but 
about one half of the roots are left by the lambs and cleaned up by the ewes. 
I have gone into detail to some extent as to the management of Mr. 
Smith’s flock of sheep, in the hope that I may have been able to give sheep 
49 cows. 
8 bulls. 
36 heifers. 
15 young heifers. 
And 15 calves. 
