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tlie premises ; it is all collected in a well ; tlie steam-engine 

 tliere is for the purposes of the distiller}^, which pumps this 

 up over the stand-pipe. It also contains human manure to 

 a very small extent. It is taken out in cast-iron pipes, 

 3 inches in diameter, throug-h the iields, and there are cocks 

 at different parts, and a hose is applied, which goes from 

 any part, and is then distributed by tin pipes added on, so 

 many of them about 6 feet 6 inches in leng'th, and the 

 others about 3 feet in length. There is no labour, but 

 a singie man or boy to watch it or distribute it over; 

 they may do it by jet. He does not use a jet. Some of the 

 land is in ridg'es, and some of his fields are flat ; and it 

 has a much better eflect when the land is flat; on a ridg'e 

 it is apt to run into the furrows. It is found to distribute it 

 very equally over the land ; and though it is run on at every 

 3 feet or 3|- feet, you would not know the difl"erence of the 

 crop, unless they miss a bit, and then it is marked. I 

 should say that the distribution of manure in that way is by 

 no means so offensive as by applications of common farm- 

 yard manure. I saw the tanks full and empty, and particu- 

 larly wished to examine whether there was any deposit; 

 they have never required to be cleaned out, except at first. 

 They put up an agitator to take it all, siqiposing- the sub- 

 stance deposited to be the best of it ; they found out by expe- 

 rience that it was by no means the richest part, and they 

 have ceased to use the agitator, by which means the first tank 

 it flows into requires occasionally cleaning' out. He farms 

 various qualities of land ; and he has applied it to all sorts 

 of crops, and with iiniversally g'ood results. On pasture-land 

 it has had the most beautiful effect; the cattle seem to like 

 the parts dressed with it ; they graze it much more greedily ; 

 if a part is missed, tlie cattle will leave that. I should say 

 that land that formerly he coidd not cut more than once, he 

 will cut this year three times. It is common rye-grass. 

 This year he has applied it to oats, after they were brairded ; 

 most of the people thought it woidd have destroyed them ; I 

 Avent back afterwards, in five or six weeks, and the effects 

 were wonderful; I shoxdd say double the amoimt of the 

 crop upon the part dressed with it, compared to the part that 

 was not; and so distinctly marked, that at half a mile dis- 

 tance 3^ou could see the parts missed ; the field is cold clay 

 land. I estimate the crop at double what it would have 

 been without it. I could not say how many quarters, with 

 any accuracy, at that stage of the crop. From the dressing 



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