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winter. Tlie arable land is managed on a three-year rotation, 
there being about 12 acres wheat, 12 acres barley and oats, and 
about 12 acres of beans, roots, and maize. The fallows thus 
follow two corn crops and were very clean. The land had 
been drained by the tenant himself, but even then there was 
evidence of colts- foot and horsetail. The mangolds were 
seventeen inches between the rows— an unusual width and 
mangold, turnips and maize were all a wonderful plant for the 
season, and indicated much skill in the working of the land. 
Mr. King-Brain has grown maize now for several years and 
finds it an invaluable crop for his cows. The wheat was paitly 
autumn and partly spring-sown and all the corn crops piomised 
a good yield. No artificials are used on them, and it may be 
that some might profitably be applied ; the barley , for example, 
rather suggested an excess of nitrogenous manuiing. The 
same remark applies also to the meadows and pastuies, all of 
which seemed to want some phosphate to supplement the rich 
dung used on them. The meadows showed too high a propor- 
tion of weed- grasses, such as fog, due possibly to late hay- 
making owing to weather conditions. All the grabs fields aie 
admirably watered by a gravitation supply laid on b} the 
tenant. About fifty cows are milked for cheddar cheese-making 
in summer, whilst in winter the milk is sent up to one of the 
big London dairy companies at about 1( )d. per gallon. Mi. 
King-Brain showed the Judges a good shorthorn bull • m 
splendid condition, and his first-calf heifers and yearlings were 
a beautifully uniform lot. The tenant never keeps his calves 
until the mothers have proved themselves milkers— a good 
practice. Those dropped by the first-calf heifers are sold to 
eastern counties graziers, and to improve their feeding qualities 
they are sired by a Hereford bull. The second-calf hei eis 
were also a nice lot, though not so good looking as the youngei 
ones. The calves look as well as many that get much more 
milk, and this is doubtless accounted for by the fact that 
Mr. King-Brain always superintends their feeding. Special 
mention must be made of the dairy, where Mrs. King-Biam 
manages the cheese-making. One large cheese and one truckle 
is the daily output, and Mrs. King-Brain is to be congratulated 
on the careful records kept and the skill and method displayed 
About 100 sheep are bought in the autumn and are^ wintered 
on the roots not required for the cows, going off fat m le 
spring. The breeding sows are a mixed lot, but all useful. 
The pigs were all going to Birmingham as “ cutters, instead ot 
to the local bacon factories, and probably in times ot moie 
moderate prices it would be more profitable to grow a smaller 
pig with a view to supplying the factory demand. 1 he feeding 
was rather unusual, but gave excellent results, except that the 
