APPLICATION TO AGEICULTURE. 



137 



Stock on hand— Brought forward, £1369 10 



87 Ewes and 100 lambs, . . 407 8 



64 Pigs, 81 12 



100 Head of poultry, . . . 10 



Corn in stack and granary, . 320 7 



Hay, straw, and manure, . . 243 



Pioots, growing crops, . . . 87 10 



Tillage implements and tiles, . 482 19 



Osiers, 



374 8 





 

 

 









 

 

 6 



£6,665 6 3 



£3,416 14 6 

 £10,082 9 



Variations in Live Stock. 



It will be seeQ that no rent is charged in the balance sheet 

 for the sewage farm, there is just the rent of the 56 acres of the 

 cn-ass land of East Haddon, so the thirteen hundred and odd 



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pounds entered as profit is in reality not a profit. In adding 

 the purchase of the farm, the hiying it out, and the buildings, it 

 will be found to amount to £180 an acre if not more, which 

 would be, say £7 an acre for rent, then add to that labour, rates, 

 and sundries, and the sum would look rather formidable ; still 

 there aie many sewage farms in a worse position financially. 



In the process of levelling the ground for the How of the 

 sewage, where the surface was removed to fill up the low places, 

 there is now little deficiency of the crops ; but by the dillusion 

 of the thud over the natural soil, it gets more than is requisite, 

 hence the corn croi)S are liable to be laid. It may be further 

 noticed, that there is no provision for overflow in a time of heavy 

 rain, so all that comes must be discharged on the land. The 

 aquatic osiers become a safety-valve then, and as will be seen 

 last year's sales of them amounted to nearly £i.>00. We said that 

 ten acres of the rye-grass were marie into hay, and that tlie 

 (piality was inferior, owing to the ditliculty of converting the 

 green and juicy stutl" into good hay. There is necessarily a 

 lart^e breadth under this ciop, and it is cut four or i\\e times in 

 the season ; tiie ditliculty is to get such a large (piantity of 

 succulent food profitably utilised. In a long interval of dry hot 

 weath"!-, it is possible to make it into hay, but thit sehhtm 



