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REPORT ON THE APPLICATION OF SEWAGE. 



This field, No. 18, gave a very large aftermath, and has been 

 closely grazed up to April 18th of the current year. It has kept 

 a score of large Leicester teggs all the winter, and done them well 

 with the assistance of a small allowance of oats daily. It had no 

 Sewage all winter, and not much since, as the steam engine is 

 again out of order. 



EXPERIMENT ON NATURAL GRASS. 



1861. 



In 1861, four plots of about one acre each were marked out 

 in a field of old grass pasture on my farm. The Sewage applied 

 was accurately guaged, and the produce carefully weighed. One 

 plot was to have no Sewage, and the remaining three to have it 

 in different quantities. The Sewage was put on by means of 

 open gutters every month, in the first year, from March to 

 November, and the grass was cut and carried to my milk cows 

 from May to November. 



GRASS CUT PER MONTH. 



1862. 

 This year the same field was again irrigated with Sewage, as 

 in the year previous. The same division into plots being con- 

 tinued. It is well worth while to take notice that plot 4, which 

 received the largest amount of Sewage, did not yield so large a 

 return as plot 3, which had 3000 tuns less. This is probably 

 owing to the wet season. The rainfall for 1862 was 25* 185 

 inches ; for the previous year, 1861, it was 20*819, and the year 

 following, 1863, it was 18*514 inches. 



