TRANSACTIONS 



OF 



THE HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND. 



REPORT ON THE APPLICATION OF SEWAGE. 

 By James Archibald Campbell of Inverawe, Newlands Farm, Rugby. 



{Premium — Thirty Sovereigns.'] 



A repout on the results of the application of Town Sewage 

 to the Farm, in order to be generally useful, should give some 

 idea of the conditions under which such application was made. 

 Some preliminary observations are therefore necessary. 



Personal observation of the fertilising effects of Town Sewage 

 near Edinburgh, and certain minutes of the General Board of 

 Health, presented to Parliament, by command of Her Majesty, 

 in the year 1851, were the means of inducing me, about eleven 

 years ago, to lease a portion of the Sewage of the Town of Rugby, 

 in Warwickshire, in order to apply it to some land partly my 

 own, and partly rented, which I there occupy. 



The town of Rugby, with its suburbs, had, by the last census, 

 a population of 8400 souls, about 6700 connected with the 

 Sewage works, and it had then been recently placed under the 

 provisions of the Public Health Act of 1848. My farm consists 

 of about 250 acres, under 190 acres of which are laid iron pipes 

 of 3 inches diameter, and through them the Town Sewage is 

 pumped every working day, by means of a 12 horsepower steam 

 engine, from a tank which receives all the sewage of the town 

 daily through an 18 inch earthenware culvert. In the situation 

 of this receiving tank, a great mistake occurred. It ought to 

 have been, built at a much higher level, and then the great ex- 

 pense of the steam engine and pumping apparatus would have 

 been saved, for the Sewage might have flowed by gravitation 

 through an iron conduit to the land where it was to be distri- 



