£2 Successful Experiment to ameliorate 



wey on the east, to the river Rumney on the west, (where I 

 I have, within the last two months, laid the foundation of 

 another village,) at a distance of about two miles. I took 

 care that the situation abounded in springs of water ; but the 

 last summer has been so trying a one, that the inhabitants 

 have thankfully acceded to my proposition of bringing dif- 

 ferent springs together, and uniting them into two streams and 

 fountains for their issue in different parts of the village, they 

 defraying one half the necessary cost. 



I must now, however, advert more particularly to what may 

 be termed the economical, moral, and political effects of my 

 experiment. And, first, families that were formei'ly accustomed 

 to live together, by night as well as by day, without regard to 

 age or sex, decency or health, are completely separated, at least 

 as regards adults ; and many houses have a room to spare for 

 lodgers, the return for which more than covers the interest of 

 the money borrowed, (if all had been done with borrowed 

 money,) the ground rent, and every other outgoing incident to 

 the premises, and will continue to do so, in all probability, as 

 long as the industrious cottagers continue exempted from the 

 iron gripe of direct taxation, with which they have been more 

 than threatened. Every cottager has his own oven, and bakes 

 his own bread ; he has also a snug corner in his pantry, which 

 I hope to live to see filled with a small cask of good home- 

 brewed beer or ale*; but, what is worth both put together, he has 

 his garden. The original allotment to each house was twenty 

 perches of land, and the same amount still accompanies every 

 fresh grant. The taste of the country savoured not of a gar- 

 den; the old cottager was well content with a few square 

 yards, sufficient to contain a few leeks, and perhaps onions ; 

 and I found more difficulty in inducing them to bring their 

 gardens into useful cultivation, than on any other point after 

 the plan was first started: but great praise for little work, 

 where any was performed ; — the reward of one hundred cab- 

 bage plants, or a couple of gooseberry trees, but, above all, 



* 1 should be thankful for any suggestion that might lead to the esta- 

 blishment of any plan for brewing by means of simple unexpensive ma- 

 chinery, (common property,) transferable from house to house in rotation ; 

 or any better method of effecting this desirable object without excise inter- 

 ference. 



In the Mechanics' Magazine, vol. vi. p. 319. is an article entitled " Brew 

 ing Simplified," which, as it may afford some hints to our correspondent, 

 and also to gardeners, we shall quote under the head of Domestic Economy, 

 in Part III., recommending the subject to the consideration of such of our 

 readers as are conversant with it. — Cond. 



