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THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
[APRIL 16, 1864, 
‘That were they discontinued the land would rapidly re- | 
vert to its —— inferior condition. 
That t 
tenants" energy pn expenditure of capital, i; is due to them 
that leases should be general. 
*' That the breaking p of a large proportion of the Grass 
— on the si farms of the Vale would greatly stimulate 
mprovement 
SAS IRRIGATION. 
provement being thus dependent on the}. 
sewage, are now let on an average at 271. per acre per 
green 
t 
annum, and we know that the great ping ! 
London, * here it is sold at 25s, per ton, 
in Glasgow, iti upon the advice ih tt 
to agriculture, the late James Smit 
paip the sewage from their cows to tbe eir fi 
own, but I wi ill now Aa pn ed to de sae a Msc A importan 
ied of the and profit of tov 
i eing so recents so so accessible (only 
y rail “from London E and s ipd and 
wide out, is ae as example o have 
eanston, 
m out of | 
m 
effectively 
who now know so mething of the conde a aws and 
chemistey of Mode will no lo onger r abhor their own 
nt | hea 
many miles around, c 
for supplies. The Grasses are 
quality, as evidenced b 
thy ap 
ood is giv t 
ine "before the irrigation | is turned on 
n Gr ass ben efit alike by the 
the se age ques 
‘On the 23d of June, 1868 (by the kind permission of 
| tion p^ sewage. 
Many head 
duri ing siae. nd, do 
their f ith the existing sen 
nan who dares to iet 
the i" cy po of aa publio by an — to 
on sense must expect incur 
per ami vds "of Tm pisa uM pirr mpt, 
or pity—buta stern sense 5 public Saty = general 
welfare will give him courage and support. I 
for P 
time will come and is paed dos en 
| 
their port 
Mr. en age), I 
of the Beddington Meadows ecd acres), wbich receive | 
contin ph night and day, winter and summer, over a 
their area, the Vae pers 18, 000 of the 
rb of Croydon. The fæ al ma atte ers of this 
Mangal, Wurzel are gro na Ps 
On the whole this undertaking g 
evidence of the value 
after pang. over 
Lou 
_ Springs 
x Th (o 
ib it is g anted are that the sewage shall lene Mr. 
spr 
Marr'age for his public sp 
we shall be compelled to d our des to | Marriage's Ls nearly as clear and bright ing | mitting an inspection of his p ations, a J. Mechi, 
regard. their excreta as a treasur his rn B oe ing, | water, This actually takes place nee Hall, March, 1864. 
too precious to be wasted. e practice | M| This application of town sewage to the land arose P.S. Im may a "T fhe the sanitary condition of the 
Japus and China, where as a conséquence the people | fro Sho volun ntary To o to benefit tlie soil, T he farm is good, and that the alarm 
have inereased and ndured yond any nation on uS e first instance xig now eter away. I would 
The reason is obvious. With them increase of popula- Heal et river, the — a "inr is from ae a! J as that when farm 
ion s increase of e, and consequently S ite ie a trout strea m. yard m anure is converted in wage by being ver 
increase of food, without qn to foreign imports of 1 Chancery suits were instituted at an|largely diluted and applied lit mé its effect on the 
ither corn or re. and effect thus follow esormons eoa gentleman who holds a mill on the | growth of plants is much more rapid, and the return 
each other in logical seque ream told me that he alone had expended 70007. in | for the quantity of. nure abii is more immediate, 
The population of Chin estimated at 412 millions 9 and ulti were compelled | than the slow action of what is called solid manure, 
read A half the — population); Salei I believe, | ; o hire 300. acres "ef land at 4l. p cre, the previous | It is the ph niit and Divisioni p — that 
30 millions. In G Britain, o our neglect e l having been only 30s. They then let it at an | tends to pro a — The same principle 
and ie of ds eere inteeqia nter du inereased rental for a term of years to the present "— —— with s 
no bring increased — m the contrary, we bec occupier, Mr. Marriage, a ssex farmer, who has x Mr. Mori letter to me, just received— 
annually more ndent on foreign supplies, eapendod n ee pe y= r more per acre in PUE down mere, near Mitcham, Surrey, 
and m odel aeni i 
not only of food bus of foy manures. We pay millions 
ree fle for oe rebns n birds’ dung, and throw away our 
own at our own doors. Is this reasonable or con- 
sistent with as: commercial principles ? 
What sho o we sa 
is as s a folly, I had kaikes uere 
t profo Lied ik: um 
r 30 millions of Le mcr | 
n pra me. 
und and rare philosopher B 
in his never t 
piranha 
golden streanif through our sewers to pollute our rivers, 
It is curious to observe t 
o be Mores appreciated “works, 
exhibited to us fo th e| Mr. 
e, and 
ubbing a ugh 
old a ae fences, panelling, pct pea re and 
rep land 
“ Dear Sir, —In r to 
that 17s, Fs ton is thet me ic 
arge 
gutters, and other 
the sewage. Ou ealth 
have ng him 37. pe and is Due. rici 
situated, being tol: a level, falling a as the river falls. 
It is also very light and loose, res 
self-drained Mr. Ma image fi! 
wn ithe trees w 
ache ^3 
und. This flooding 
xd eq the farm, 
sewage. | 
task, but the the work is done 
| —-— osanna ae — 
E 
disbelief ma Be cine that have be 
ba —- *s tl 
of ignorance and prejudice, but truth - 
the | slu " 
psu 
^s iie ise ‘us ie: we € that every new | g 
utters, 1 
from dy otn, and gr from top 
field. One attends he 
boards or segs: at pr Dir intervals 
ae cma over the Soil. Fr rom 30 t 
inches deep, and 8 or 9 inches wide, 50 feet 
to bottom of the 
whole, placing the 
o div 
ultimately prevailed. “So it will be with what is calle 
the sewage question. 
The great dilution of our sewage is M ed upon a 
fatal objection to its economie use. "There never vila 
greater error. Has not science revealed to us x t the | 
earth ean and does eene nd arrest from t e fil 
ing fluid all those sofi 
of pla ste: "The con cem — of lime, | 
and ammonia, forsake t ater, and clin ng 
m which me 
0 years ago we had n 
child's play of draini ing a 
Se oak ho plead 
: Shes ae a tin e ome 
ens on gare ad — 
M a st Roos Te welt oon 
expense ection | 
dim inen sc hein they 
M pov ., will, 
inr ah At 
Wie" oe water 
testion "80° far = 
Tiere only remai 
it to "the land, so on 
eople can cg Brought to Ieliote that town 
the very best of m 
have the q 
ree cce 
in regar 
manure, the stron 
brooks after eavy rains, 
In order to give A ‘ain its full value, we ep 
qud c : Aii 
he bones w nei we m not eat, aud Vhieb 
go into our sewers. 
m-yard 
r 
heeded down the 
wage with phos- 
ier toy without phosphates AE lid. per 
hate ime in or 
want of water in house He ilding— 
materials datu we P n 
Sometimes the 
inci oom 20 
een near 
Those | 
om sev 
vie, nae their 
g wage or gra 
-power to avail of, " sov dp fa 
or 
engines, | To 
one pite under the influence of sew 
vis 
-[to4 
he 
y | tons per acre. 
mu 
| yield f from 
Ax | This, if converted. into 
Mee s 
Seca nothing 
only a faint and slightly disagree- 
| able mdr on duse fields from which the sewage had 
been recen'ly withdrawn, 
sewage flows udo amd 
m gette, i ina papot 
hough the weather | 
elo 
uu I 25s. per ton, € onlon; but as so 
uch of this is made u ith the expense of cartage, &c. 
Ioni re the most ain vantimnats. and the one thst most 
girly states the value, is as above, viz., 17s. per ton in the 
wer quee: that I have hired abou t 300 acres o! and 
feeding q 
ee sd nd is BARS 
d free from combine Eug m will not create & 
ance if the land is situate a romans Taie pus 
ood : 
ir DS 
if , 
eere c oM 
The following facts, which I ascertained from reliable 
sources, settle the sat on of the pr racticability of 
| applying g tow. wn sewage to o the soil :— 
v ipee in diameter, having a fall 
from Loch Sead to A 
si 
cleat and fs so pee ror 
clea: 
on the Suoma 
of the purest w: 
ness in the ae and — 
s influence 
not be conducive to he: "ee 
"In 
n pipe o te 
necessary per y: 
M pe e the att i 
he largest daily water 
We Gi 
ees 
PM uch of 
se 
eis the rainfall! Well, 
ead in January, 1857, says that i m 
1855 there 
22 bee n the 
90 pat rab A to roth of an inch of rain 
pri m eed to 1-5th of an inch 
eavy rainfalls. 
Adour Rome, with its seven millions. of inhabitants 
Td arable ve Aen in a wretchedly neglected co: 
vered w r per- 
h Docks, aes h Grass, and other 
sich Mr. M: r 
the 
TE of his you 
his surprise and joy, stat 
m then 
exist under the dense mass of this T 
ridi looking 1 like. a a solid and im 
feet 6 inches high. 
to June 22) was of that height, and a 
In the 
ueli 
talian Rye- 
ir ren Ue wall from 3 
(f April 22 
he see. 
crop grew 
= 
more cloudy weather and shorter days its 
strength dotem The first cutting oan c in 
—the last in November. The n e 
to ‘30 tons per acre, acc 
hay, 
daily to feed abou 
of Eain- | ie 
spring growth is 
becomes necessary to make some in , altho 
this is "mes: a raioni operation, pde to el 
great crop, also to the rapid growth of the 
— and - fertile “lands on the 
e| The land was 
waiter ie 
would give 10 "i 12 to tons : 
— e. During the spring re enough js sold 
Cat 
or applying 
odern 
mse mé. 
which still exists. What was the 
Sad their excreta in the Tiber instead 
it to the 
sewers s 
the end not able i 
II 
es of our era informs us, there into 
of t toe population the gare" calamitous r^ nd frightful 
which a nation can fall. e that many cansos 
operated i i surely 
h on of the he soil byt T E 
oi ad E on of Lb. 
RE 
d 
food and bought manures, 
the non-return to the soil of our 
own 
y not 
dtaiehas iio he farmers of this count 
less than 10 to 1 
xS 
ans 
The price — on the field is 175. per ton for the 
ex 
new sewer iie, and every 
2 millions annuall | Aue Ex 
an abstraction from their profi i 
old cesspool 2 ec 
