118 THE BOOK OF THE LANDED ESTATE. 



This is a portable pump ; the legs fold up and stand in the position 

 shown by the dotted lines. The cost is from 2, 10s. to 3 each. It 

 requires a short length of gutta-percha hose to attach to the lower end 

 of it and to reach down into the tank. The hose will cost about 2s. per 

 running foot for a size of one and a half inch diameter. This kind of 

 pump will also be found to be very useful in removing water from exca- 

 vations, &c. Fig. 9 is a very useful form of liquid-manure cart. It is a 



FIG. 9. 



form which can be made by any country carpenter. Liquid manure is 

 also distributed over the fields by a system of underground iron pipes, 

 through which the liquid is sent by means of the steam-engine and 

 force-pump, or by simple gravitation if the tank is situated at a higher 

 level than the fields to which the liquid is to be applied. The cost by 

 the first plan is about 6 an acre ; and by the gravitation principle 

 about 4, including cost of tanks, &c. 



SECTION 6. Peat as a Manure. 



Peat is an accumulation of vegetable matter, and therefore should 

 possess many good manuring qualities; and there is no doubt but that it 

 is well suited for some soils. It is well known that where peaty soils 

 have been thoroughly drained and mixed with other soils of a mineral 

 nature such as gravel, lime, and clay they have turned out good grain- 

 growing soils. Such, therefore, being the case, why cannot we use peat 

 as a profitable mixture with gravelly or clayey soils ? I have tried with 

 great advantage the following plan of using peat as a manure : We 

 collect a quantity of peat and lay it in a heap any length or breadth 



