2-982-598 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Prince Consort's Model Farm at Osborne, 1858. '...for more perfect arrangement in all the details and necessary requirements of an agriculturist's homestall the traveller in this or any other country would search in vain...the system of cultivation which has been adopted, alike with the arable as the meadow land, has shown the capabilities which the most unpromising ground possesses, by now yielding herbage and produce beyond the anticipation of the keenest speculator on agricultural success...on the right...is Barton Manor House, the homestead of the farm, and in which resides Mr. Andrew Toward, the efficient and able steward of the estate. At the extreme left is a distant view of Osborne House...in the foreground is a triple row of sheds and yards, the engine-house and chimney in the centre, with the foreman's house and bothy on the left. The upper range of buildings comprises cart stables, cart sheds, lodges, and granary...In these sheds is kept every modern invention of farm machinery the practical purposes of which have been fully tested...The stables are well-ventilated and drained...In the next row of buildings is a large shed; and ranged on either side, with a tramway in the centre, are the cow stalls and bullock pits'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.