10 REPORT ON THE APPLICATION OF SEWAGE. 



No. 8 Field. 



This field was sown with wheat in February, after Italian 

 grass, and abundant Sewage. A complete failure. Had to be 

 ploughed up. 



In 1858, I began to apply the Sewage by means of small 

 open grips or gutters to the Italian rye-grass, and found them 

 answer better than the hose and jet. They were cheaply 

 made on the plan of Mr. Brickford, of Exeter. I have a small 

 one horse plough fitted with two coulters, and a sharp cutting 

 square-ended nozzle or share, which takes out about 4 inches of 

 the soil, as it moves along, neatly and regularly, levels having 

 first been taken by means of a triangle of wood, about 4 feet 

 high, having a plumb line depending from its apex. The first 

 grip is drawn as nearly as possible along the highest level, and 

 from this are cut perpendiculars down the slope of the field, and, 

 if necessary, more horizontal lines across the slope. By these 

 the grass is better watered than by the hose, a larger quantity 

 put on in a shorter time, and with greater regularity. Still the 

 quantity I received was deficient, not enough to produce paying 

 results. I applied it this year to the same fields as the year pre- 

 vious, Nos, 2, 3, and 11. 26 acres. 



No. 2 Field. 



Italian grass, second year, about 16 tons to the acre, in three 

 cuttings. Thin crop. Season dry. Evidently not enough 

 Sewage. 



No. 3 Field. 



Italian gras3, third year. This field had more Sewage than 

 No. 2, but the crop was quite as small. 



No. 11 Field. 



Old grass cut for hay ; still not more than two tons to the 

 acre. Hose aud jet constantly going. 



No. 18 Field. 



This is a field which I took in 1856, at that time very poor 

 pasture. Its history, as respects Sewage, may be useful. In 

 1857 it was drained to the depth of 4 feet, the soil is light, and 

 in some places very wet, a kind of quicksand from 3 to 4 feet 

 below the surface. Sewage was applied by means of hose and 

 jet. It did much better as pasture, and this year (1858) I took 

 hay from it, about If tons of hay to the acre. In 1859, the 

 Sewage was applied to 4^ acres of it, by means of the open 

 gutters, from this portion 2 ions of hay per acre was cut, and it 

 yielded an abundant aftermath. In 1860, the same process of 

 irrigation by open gutters was carried on, and the result was an 

 early bite for sheep, fully two tons of hay per acre, and an in- 



