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Iron pipes three inches diameter extend from the engine pumps through 

 the field, not exceeding in cost $12.00 per acre. The hose pipe is of gutta 

 percha, 150 yards long, costing with discharge pipe $100. The engine is 

 used six hours per week at an expense of about $22.00. 



The following then is the cost of carrying out Mr. Telfer's farm : 



Tank, $150 00 



Engine, 300 00 



Iron pipes and hydrants, 500 00 



Distributing hose and pipe, 100 00 



$1,080 00 



Annual interest, 74 20 



Wages and fuel, 55 00 



Total $1,189 20 



The liquid manure is applied to all kinds of crops upon Mr. Telfer's 

 farm ; and though rye grass is the favorite, it is also used for turnips, 

 mangel wurzel, cabbages, rhubarb and fruit. 



The hay and grain purchased during the year, amounted to $1,115 ; the 

 other food is produced on the farm. The first cutting of grass is in the 

 latter part of March, eighteen inches high ; the second two feet high ; the 

 third four feet ; the fourth four feet ; the fifth two feet, and the sixth 

 eighteen inches. Taking the mean, the aggregate height of grass grown 

 and cut off this farm, within seven months, was fifteen feet in height. All 

 this is eaten upon the premises, and the whole marketable produce is rep- 

 resented by milk and butter. Two hundred and thirty-four pounds were 



made each week, amounting to, $3,042 00 



per annum ; and the milk sold for, 2,535 06 



Total receipts for milk and butter, $5,577 00 



I only need add, that previously to the adoption of the present system of 

 farming, these forty acres of land were barely sufficient to support eight 

 cows. 



A Mr. Ptalston, in Ayrshire, made all the necessary arrangements for 

 the application of liquid manure in three years, on a farm of forty acres, 

 and produced the following year eighty stacks of hay, where more than 

 twelve had never been made before. He cut two crops of grass at the same 

 time in the same ten acre field ; before he finished the first cutting of nine 

 inches high, there was a second cutting ready of six inches when he com- 

 menced. 



On the Marquis of Ailsa's property, near Ayr, thirty acres have been 

 brought under irrigation by gravitation. The field pipes from the tanks 

 are all made of glazed earthenware. The work was contracted for, and 

 the contractor was bound to maintain them in good order, for twelve 



