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thorough. If, from a plot of twenty-five feet by fifty, the old soil 

 be removed and properly replaced, valuable luxuries may be 

 raised. If well drained, the partial absence of the sun from over- 

 shadowing buildings would not be so strongly felt. A great deal 

 of lettuce, fiuit, and tomatoes may be raised there, by good under 

 drainage and the supply of proper manure, and soil, bones, leather, 

 hair, or lime mixed with it. An asparagus bed might be con- 

 structed after good trenching. 



Mr. Clapp explained his plan more fully. The opening of the 

 main, say in Chambers -street, would be in the sewers, the torrent 

 of water in a few hours would effectually flush the sewer. Large 

 additional mains for this purpose would be money well expended. 

 We have much surplus water. In the summer season, take the 

 sewer that is most filthy, open the gate and clear it. 



Mr. Waring said Ihat this valuable matter ought not to be 

 thrown away or sent into the river. 



Mr. Clapp said it was better to lose manure than to lose life. 



The Secretary said that the present state of opinion among 

 practical men in London, is that the separation of the water from 

 the sewerage is too expensive. 



Mr. Waring then resumed the discussion of the subject of ma- 

 nures, left incomplete at a former meeting. In combating the 

 views which had been expressed by Dr. Waterbury, he contended 

 that the Doctor's theory, namely, that the waste of fertilizing 

 material is necessary; that land must manure itself, or in other 

 words, that farming is not profitable on land that requires manu- 

 ring; that we are to avoid the modern English system of farming; 

 that our trut- policy requires emigration fo the unexhausted lands 

 of the west. With all of these positions he presumed to differ. 

 He stated his firm belief that the waste of manures to the extent 

 to which it now exists, is so far from being necessary that it 

 entails a positive loss. He thought that no land can sufficiently 

 manure itself unless it be allowed to retain its whole crop, and 

 that our most profitable farming will be such an improvement on 

 the English system as will increase our energy in saving and ap- 



