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dollars, now worth two thousand six hundred dollars per acre. 

 Wiley meadows, Wiltshire, containing one hundred and fifty- 

 acres; total cost of works and apparatus per acre, one hundred 

 dollars, yields four heavy crops of grass per annum, and rents 

 for one hundred and twenty- five dollars a year per acre. Duke 

 of Bedford's Tavistock meadows in Devonshire, ninety acres, 

 total cost per acre seventy dollars, land more than quadrupled 

 in value after only five years irrigation. Pusey meadows, Berk- 

 shire, one hundred acres, catch meadow, gravitation and open 

 gutters; cost per acre twenty-two dollars, land not previously 

 •worth more than ten shillings per acre, is now yielding six heavy 

 crops of grass per annum. 



Mr. Harvey's farm, at Glasgow, contains five hundred and eight 

 acres; he employs a steam engine, pumps, under ground iron 

 main pipes, and iron distributing pipes ; total cost of works and 

 apparatus per acre, twelve dollars. He has cut ten feet thick of 

 grass from a single acre in six months, the first cut was four feet 

 high; second cut, four feet; third cut, two feet. His farm con- 

 sists of cold heavy clay land, with a very uneven surface; the 

 highest parts being at an elevation of ninety feet above the point 

 ■where the liquid manure is collected. He keeps one thousand 

 cows, and retains their fluid for the use of his farm, which diluted 

 •with water is found ample. He sells all the solid compost made 

 on his premises, about two thousand tons, to his neighbors, for 

 one dollar and a half per ton, which yields him a clear annual 

 saving of three dollars per acre, over and above the necessary 

 tillage of the farm, and irrespective of the amazing increase in 

 the crops of grass, grain, roots, etc., produced. The fluid is ap- 

 plied immediately after each cutting, and when the cattle are 

 turned upon it seven or eight days afterwards, they eat most 

 greedily, always selecting the spots that have received the largest 

 dose, and leaving entirely any part that may have been missed. 



Mr. James Kennedy, Myer Mill liirm, Ayrshire, has emi)loyed 

 this mode of enriching extensively on four hundred acres of land, 

 drained to the depth of three and four feet; his stock consists of 

 three hundred head of horned cattle, one hundred and fifty pigs, 

 fifteen hundred sheep, and twenty horses. The drainage from 



