REPORT ON THE APPLICATION OF SEWA.GE. 9 



If there is one lesson more distinctly to be learned than 

 another from the experience of these three years in the applica- 

 tion of Town Sewage, it is the utter unprofitableness o: shedding 

 small quantities over a large area of land. Both the lessee of 

 the Town Sewage and myself were quite at one upon the neces- 

 sity of concentrating the Sewage upon a smaller area, and accord- 

 ingly, in 1857, 1 took more land from him with a new agreement 

 for ten years by which I had the power to apply the Sewage 

 without that limitation as to quantity which had embarrassed 

 me before. Under this new agreement, I ceased, as a general 

 rule, to measure the quantity applied, and kept it going all the 

 year round, and chiefly on grass land. I have, however, made 

 use of it for green crops, such as mangold wurtzel and turnips in 

 dry seasons with good effect, and the same may be said of cereal 

 crops, occasionally in spring, but not in wet seasons. 



In 1857, I withdrew the Sewage from all the 12 fields num- 

 bered in the foregoing tables, except numbers 2, 3, and 11 — 

 about 26 acres. 



It is to be observed that these three fields were watered all 

 the year round, portion after portion, as was most convenient, by 

 the hose and jet. It is impossible to estimate the quantity put 

 on the land, it must have been considerable, but the results were 

 by no means satisfactory, probably from insufficient supply dur- 

 ing the previous season. 



No. 2 Field. 



Italian Eye grass was sown on 3 acres, May 20th, the land 

 having been manured with 50 carts of dung, and 5 cwt. of guano, 

 and 10 cwt. of salt and ashes. Begun to cut the crop July 

 13th. 4 more acres were sown August 5th, after being manured 

 with 81 carts of dung. I have no record of the quantity cut, but 

 well recollect that it was but an ordinary crop. 



No. 3 Field. 

 Nine acres Italian Grass, second year, begun to water with 

 Sewage, March 13th. Begun to cut the grass, April 13th. 

 N.B. — 6| cwt. of guano was also applied to this field. 



Tons per 

 Acre. 



1st crop gave. 10| 



2nd do. do H 



3rd do. do 3£ 



4th do. do H 



5th do. do 2 finished cutting Nov. 17th. 



Average, 29 1 17 



No. 11 Field. 

 Old grass pastured till April 24th. Sewage applied from 

 March 6th to June 8th. Hay cut July 14th, carried July 24th, 

 about 2 tons per acre. Sewaged upon in August, and pastured. 



