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of the tenant. There was a wonderful old long red Waterloo 
bull, full of quality and substance, and extraordinarily docile. 
A very fine Scotch Augusta bull is also in use, which seems 
rather a doubtful experiment to attempt on such a herd of deep- 
milking dairy cows. About twenty beasts are grazed in the 
summer, these being for the most part the misfits from the 
dairy, which no doubt accounts for the grand quality of the fat 
cows shown to the Judges. On the grass the cows get about 
4 lb. or 5 lb. of cotton cake, and the grass is supplemented in 
autumn and spring by cabbage. In the winter roots, chaff, and 
hay are fed, and a few pounds of bran and meal are added to 
the cake allowed. The horses were young and good ; the 
tenant follows the practice, already noted, of breeding young 
horses and working them on the farm until they are old enough 
to be sold into the towns. 
Mr. Williams estimates that he has added some ten acres to 
the available area of his holding by cutting back over-grown 
hedges, &c., and the general impression created is that here 
is a farm of very moderate quality, and lying awkwardly for 
working, which is being farmed with the maximum of energy 
and ability. Mr. Williams has won many prizes in the estate 
competitions to which reference has been made. 
Coming now to the last class (Class V.), that for farms 
between 50 and 150 acres, the first prize was awarded to Mr. 
Benjamin Robert Broughton, of Hellings Farm, at Crewkerne. 
It is a compact holding of some 145 acres, of which only 
18 acres are under the plough, and the house and buildings are 
pleasantly situated and suitable. The arable land is half in 
straw crops and half in roots each year. The turnips had 
missed and thistles were rather noticeable, showing how bad 
this land could be if it were not well farmed. The mangolds 
were a good plant and for the most part clean. The wheat, red 
king, was very fine, as also were the black tartar oats, and one 
wondered why Mr. Broughton does not try a better variety. 
They had been sprayed for charlock, and a piece left undone 
as a control showed the value of this treatment applied at the 
proper time. There was also a certain quantity of corn-cockle, 
a weed that is not infrequently introduced through the use 
of some of the “ dry chick feeds ” which are so popular 
nowadays, and which are largely compounded of the waste from 
the threshing machine. No clover is grown, which seems to 
be doubtful economy having regard to the nitrogen storing 
capacity of this crop. When two corn crops are taken in 
succession the tenant uses some artificial. 
The grass land is decidedly useful for the most part, and 
this is largely due to the care and management of the tenant. 
He has experimented with slag and with super to determine 
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