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impossible to please these gentlemen unless we take off the land in a 

 single crop all the ingredients we put on in sewage. That this is quite 

 impossible is clearly shown both by common experience and by the 

 results of careful experiments made at Eothamstcd with both natural 

 and artificial manures, and the whole question of profit tiu'ns upon 

 that. At Eugby the tenants of the land were quite willing to supply 

 us \\ath sewage at rates Avhich averaged Id. per ton the year roimd; 

 as they found by experience that they could not get a penny out 

 of it. 



Table III. 



Sewage applied, and Green Grass obtained, per Acre per Aumira, in Experi- 

 ments made at Kugby. 



Skasoxs 18G1, 18G2, and 1863. 



Season. 



i'Lor 1. 

 Unsewagcd. 



Plot 2. 

 3000 Tons Sewage. 



Ploi 3.' 

 6000 Tons Sewage. 



I'Lor 4. 

 9000 Tons Sewage. 



AveraRe 



Five-Acre Field. 



11 



3 10 I 22 17 3 1 



28 9 3 13 31 1 3 1& 



Average of the Two Fields. 



1861, G2, & 63 



9 6 24 



22 5 2 



30 6 2 6 



32 12 IS 



Season 1864 (without Sewage). 



Five-Acre Field. 



1864 



1 14 3 26 2 17 2 20 5 12 18 5 13 3 20 



Ten-Acre Field. 



1864 



12 



12 1 15 7 4 9 G 11 11 



