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KEPORT ON THE APPLICATION OF SEWAGE. 



18 64. 



This year the grass was cut green, and carried to the cows, 

 as in the three previous years, from the same field, but no Sewage 

 was applied, as it was desirable to know what permanent effect, 

 if any, was produced by Sewage. In consequence of the extra- 

 ordinary drought of the season, the produce of all the plots was 

 very inconsiderable. It is evident, however, that the Sewage 

 still maintained an influence, and that in some proportion to the 

 quantity applied. The soil is of a gravelly nature. The rain- 

 fall was only 16"386 for the year, the average being 21^ for 10 

 years past. 



EXPERIMENT ON ITALIAN RYE-GRASS. 



18 63. 



No. 3 Field. 



This year I marked out four plots of ground in No. 3 Field 

 of one acre each, the crop being Italian rye grass of the fiist year. 

 One plot to have no dressing of manure, a second to be watered 

 with Sewage, a third to have Sewage applied to double the 

 amount of the second, and the fourth to be watered with liquid 

 manure from the farm yard tank, mixed with ammoniacal liquor 

 from the gas works. 1 must premise that the weather was very 

 dry and warm during the greater part of the time. The first 

 cuttings were particularly unsatisfactory from the long continued 

 drought of the Spring. 



Inch. Inch. Inch. Inch. 



Rainfall, Feb., 454; March, -314; April, 1-411 ; May, 442. 



Average, „ 149 



1646; 



1-538 ; 



