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(July) would weigh a good 8 stone, and make 9 d. per lb., 
though they were not getting quite 1 lb. per day of a mixture 
of linseed cake, bran and locust beans. 
The pigs were the East Anglian type of large blacks, and it 
is claimed that they have an advantage over the local “blues” 
on the score of large litters. It is Mr. Bridgman’s practice to 
get out a number of fat bacon pigs at six months ; those shown 
to the Judges were being fed on sharps at 5 1. per ton — an 
excellent food, 3 1. per ton cheaper than barley meal, and a'good 
example of economy in management. 
Mr. Bridgman has planted about 7 acres of apples at his 
own expense and the young trees look very promising. He 
complained of some difficulty in getting labour in busy 
seasons, though his own cottages were sufficient for ordinary 
purposes. 
In Class II. the first prize was awarded to Mr. Henry 
Matthews, of Down Farm, Winterbourne, Bristol. His home- 
stead lies very nicely by the roadside, about six miles north of 
Bristol. The house and buildings are very conveniently 
planned and the surroundings generally were neat and tidy, 
though the Judges commented rather adversely upon the state 
of some of the fences, which may, however, be accounted for 
in some degree by the fact that the farm lies rather wide and is 
much intermingled with the fields of other occupiers. The 
tenant has erected a large Dutch barn and some piggeries at his 
own expense. The farm is about one-third grass. Mr. Matthews 
follows the ordinary “Norfolk” course of cropping, but he 
takes beans instead of roots on the strong land, and the area 
under each crop for 1913 was : — 
Roots . 
Beans . 
Barley and oats 
Clover . 
Wheat . 
24 acres. 
12 
22 
45 
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36 
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Mr. Matthews is a great believer in the economy of heavy 
dressings of dung on his land, and he carts large quantities of 
stable manure from Bristol. The land in fallow crops was 
clean, and the swedes, which were looking well for the season, 
get 20 tons of dung besides 5 cwt. of artificial (bone-meal and 
“ turnip manure ”) per acre. For mangolds about 40 tons of 
farmyard manure are applied in the winter, with a further 
20 tons, hauled from Bristol, in the spring. These seem to be 
heavy dressings, but it is possible that on the sandy paits of 
the farm the humus thus supplied is of such value as to 
warrant what might otherwise be described as extravagance. 
The beans were a very fair crop for the season, and they 
improved considerably when the heavy rainfall in the eailv 
