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with twenty-four inch stroke, and working twenty-six strokes per minute, 

 at this rate of working they are capable of raising 42,000 gallons per day 

 of ten hours. The cost of the pumps was $350. The liquid manure is 

 conveyed by iron pipes three inches in diameter to the extent of two niiles> 

 which serves one hundred and sixty acres, the cost of pipes including lay" 

 ing is forty-two cents per j^ard. There is a hydrant for every three 

 hundred yards of main and cost each ^4.50. The pipes are so ar- 

 ranged that with one hundred and fifty yards of hose the distributor and 

 boy can irrigate ten acres per day, or an acre an hour, with 4,115 gallons 

 of liquid per acre for each application. The hose pipe is gutta percha, and 

 consists of S3venty-five yards, one and a half inches in diameter, costing fifty 

 cents per yard. The liquid manure is now sent out to a distance of half a 

 mile, and the jet from a circular orifice of an inch in the discharge pipe 

 will rise ninety feet high and falls like a shower seventy-five feet, from the 

 distributor. Mr. Littledale's capital account stands thus : 



Tank $1,000 



Proportion of engine 300 



Two pumps 350 



Iron pipes 1,675 



Hydrants 50 



Hose two inch 50 



" one and a half inch 35 



$3,460 



The interest and working expenses including coal is about three hundred 

 and forty dollars; equals about $1.25 per acre This mode of fertilizing 

 has not been long in operation on this farm, but liquid manures have been 

 applied there for some time by the more expensive and clumsy method of 

 carting on the land; like the Duke of Southerland's, therefore, this farm is 

 in the transition state. The mode of emptying by a pump and hose, what- 

 ever may be the distance required for the conveyance of the manure, will 

 be found to be far cheaper than the water cart. With the hose the refuse 

 may be placed on gardens, lawns and places where the cart cannot go and 

 at all times. With the pump it may be carried to all heights under one 

 hundred and thirty feet, and the hose may extend to a mile or more. Within 

 Buch lifts as eight feet, and over all descents, the labor of pumping which 

 would be required to get the liquid manure into a water cart would, with 

 the hose, convey it half a mile. According to the estimates already given 

 the expense of the fuel and labor for the distribution of about 4,115 gal- 

 lons of liquid manure by the hose and jet would be sixteen cents. The 

 quantity is equal to twenty loads, and the distribution by water cart, 

 including the pumping from the tank, carrying half a mile and laying on, 

 would cost sixteen cents for a load, or $3.20 for 4,115 gallons. On this 

 farm liquid manure produced a crop of swede turnips equal to that pro. 

 duced b}' thirty tons of solid manure, which cost $12.50 for application, 

 showing that it is only waste of time to make further remarks on the com- 

 parative economy of laying on liquid as compared to solid manure. Mr. 

 Littledale has had this farm about eleven yeare and has erected a lodge, a 

 house for the bailiff, and eight cottages for the laborers. A million of 

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