210 LIQUID MANURE. 



lie is in the habit of giving* per acre, lie has a much greater 

 result than from any quantity of farm-yard manure I have 

 seen applied. He has 300 acres, which is now nearly all in 

 £ne condition from that application ; and I should think, from 

 the supply, that he has equal to twice 300 acres ; he has 

 more than he requires, so much so that after this year be 

 will not require any solid manure ; he is selling' it. He put 

 up this apparatus two years ago, and he is so thoroughly 

 convinced of the advantage of it, that he recommends it very 

 strongly. 



Af/ricidttiral Gazette, Oct. 10, 1846. 



Art. L.— liquid MANURE : MODE AND EXPENSE OF 

 DELIVERING IT OVER THE LAND. 



[From Evidence laid before the Select Committee on Mctrojwlitan 

 Setvage.'] 



By Mr. Chadwick. 



The following- evidence laid before the Select Committee on 

 Metropolitan Sewag"e, by Mr. Chadwick, is hig'hly important 

 in reference to the a})})licability of the plan of the Compau}- : — 

 " In the summer of 1842, I was staying- with a friend, Mr. 

 Thomson, of Clitheroe, where Dr. Lyon Playfair was also 

 staying-. Mr. Thomson has extensive printworks, where he 

 employs about 1000 persons, and from the works has much 

 liquid manure. Mr. Henry Thomson pumped up the 

 sewage-water from a well or shaft into a tank made at the 

 top of a field, about SO feet above the rest of the farm. He 

 found that, under that 80-feet pressure, by means of the 

 hose, with the labour of two men (one to remove the hose, 

 and another to direct the nozzle), they could distribute about 

 2000 g-allons of liquid manure in an hour. The important 

 result was this, that it was to be accomplished by the labour 

 of two men ; and suppose we g-ive 2|fZ. or 3c/. an hour, that 

 delivery of the 2000 g-allons was accomplished for 6r/." 

 The exjjense of delivery of the same quantity by water-cart 

 was, I think, about 5s. ; the expense of loading- and s])read- 

 ing- stable-dung- was about 11.?. That was about the relative 

 mechanical cost; Q>d. for the delivery by the hose, bs. by the 



