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till next Wednesday y and we hope 
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report 
EN 4, pon 
THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 191 
а of many thousands as at present | gladly repeal the dut ty on fire insurances. It woul 
The diseussion was adjourned ener away the last vestige of their Protection, and 
nex 
hit 
to giv tie could then truly say when n they ask for the abolition 
PN malt tax, Bes че у} the land pars ed pars 
of the local bu rden e ry, the s hav 
A Fh 
d|it must beat once admitted ‚ that ап acquaintance 
| -L vit agriculture and with sewage has led me long 
ago toa definite Ah ion of the IS way to connect 
the б: and that hav is. formed this opinion after a 
pri evious inspectio ion of most of the places named, it was 
nperial tax After 
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THE FARMER AND mm piece es all, in this matter P firei insurance, the traer who pays 
ff (as far as regar 
gea eth oduction. But n 
of pro 
rong side of the led 
s proper rèy from the destr roying СЕК and | 1s. 6d. Es cont 2E over the risk of fire, Govern- | si 
the duty is not much worse o 
ow that t the than the farmer who has no duty to л ed ls 
je a itism stocks now cost s. per cent. for insurance, and house- 
very ld 64. Still, i e onstrous i 
whieh o ou 
r advanced civilisation has confer 
c 
in and tax the p man just 
culture, the means of insuring ТАНАШЫ gpr 
Joss by fire and hail are not the leas 
known, an 
t T his insurance, the duty being 33, for 
mper against |o every qu insured! 4 Young Norfolk Yarn mer. 
Т. 
ong be se means o 
very generally, I might say univereally, adopted by LONDON SEWAGE 
nthe other band, I learn from the report FROM THE "rc i PorwT or View. 
il Storm Soci 
t not 1 асге in [The following Paper, by Mr. Јонх C. Мовтом, was read last 
t һай. Why, ber icc Before the Societ: ty of Arts. 
orn) is insu i 
ask, is tbis? Why does the farmer show such| ТАМ ctly aware that any service to be rendered 
i i а the 
nee to secure himself Agar the damage of a | by tbe фону Mis qp towar 
i to make himself safe | London sewa t depend principally upon E аі 
its soundness that І recently 
саш them again. 
This 
" 
rejudice. Allow 
etos iis that there is no word us sed xn amateurs in 
agb MUN that is more maltreated and 
abused. A man—of course I do not mean the profes- 
in the field as in the labor oratory, but—one who 
takes his faets exclusively from the laboratory of the 
chemist, who deals with soils or with manures on 
aes papers, in bottles , and i in cru А or with plants 
allowed to expatiate 
onques stioned, and of course, we an gratefully acknow- 
ledge, Fdo usefnlly, a n jen s EI. or bes iiy Ы «d 
the various operations 
as witnessed а directe the operations o of езтн 
and of and o has 
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us 
fire? Many persons would auswer, that a fire, | cussion which is "pc llow the rning of this Pape 
casionally жола by lightning, аА. more eed Крег оге, oda WT your time for more pn judice." 
енот о thi 
the 
fruits of rud pisse over who hola rr А эы апа em 
has his doubts or his convicti ps attributed to ** pre- 
ice," seems to o me th at i th he word be properly 
1 
At no period EEN those data an | condition в on agric 
81 
e P 
th ps are we safe from fire, but hail seldom visits ture, a bel lieve, М. be able о oid a Ms fion of ta 
A вије 
under grai p, pays 50 per p 
crops pr n tian he vou to secure his| In this paper then on b ondon KERERE "from the 
live and dead farmin i 
his corn 
g stock against fire, 
n September, and if it | difficult d the 
And Early last Nove 
on an y subject precedes experience, it can be least 
aum puce on agricultural subjects to the 
He comes to any agricultural dis- 
Жуз h 
farmer. mber 
hail Kaaa pt Works hag decided Зен to ы and ы the publie |s 
red b 
it 
со versy 
grain, straw. | sewage question, I suggested t на ster t n at 
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the discussion of this subject happens to have been 
dud till now, and left for me to introduce. 
The report of | ы. Point of View," I not only mean to 
the General "sl S Storm Фу says that on the 9th | exclude the engineering and sanitary aspects e | 
August, 
А 
181 3, е hundreds of  thousan ds of pa 
If w 
ed х е. - | question, but, while discussing the merely agricultural 
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to be something sbove 30,0007. "тез years later Sir UP e. nows aed ere has а great 
Jo О acre пп | de 
posing that all | both Ие pers Md committees; an pend 
r county 
had been insured during those ten years at | tural journals have been “ bitten. E abet that if 
i of se 
ieties), the farming 
that protection upwards of 100,0002. or ` Lane Empress. eno 
ail Insurance Companies were | the LI". Editor of ey A ә say? Не 
n 
per acre price now charged by ue hail. Porre | sober view w of the agricultural value of sewage m apuro 
re 
pend 
simply upon the atomic theory of the chemist. 
e 
order to an agricultural view of the sew ni^ vé bara 
to tell you what I saw and heard upon my t 
1. First then vm ене vd :—Here the washings of 8000 
ve paid 
course it was | columns of the Mark 
g 
first established as to what premium should be paid, | declares that recent experim merih 
h e ei р зз е 
risk of the ociety would be just the same, pyovided several years what oppor tunities occurred 
that one-twelfth of the arable land was equally distri-| of presenting the facts and stating the к 
buted over the kin d hs ай у for us| which have year by v бун ccumulated 
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don't insure more generally against hail. VI head «сода ev evidence or writings o his own or 
rnt] a bonus a vat of 
le "apo some of them оп land probably 60 
is, I understand, gi Per 
drained in 
r 70 feet above "the level p of the t tank ; anà iced 
vitate mes LAT hose, and Буе here by m eed 
runnels as in ordinary irrigation, the seii 
tributed, A plot or ridge di а Кө, over the din x iuf 
- til the whole surface of a field is overtaken. I am 
old 507. a i 
next year of | other t, 
tuf ist ed. and hoi 
ar are рин to ће town as rental for the 
manure а day, or, including of 
retur 
which we shall have ^ gis Suring t the ia хоњ S м da cked in 
1f LE w having. "unfortunstély given evidence before Dr. | 
Б: only 1 aere i 
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in Norfolk 16 i There are 
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р. 
| dis! tribution and interest of capital, altoget бе. probably 
30s. or day for npe трий gall and I am 
told that "none б rent it are satisfied 
of 
ith the res Mr. Ca ribi © whom a portion of 
| the sewage is sublet, fails of a profitable result because 
h 
certain parts| of the question grew, it mi ht be ditfcult for or m3 
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of Engla nd that seem ролу liable to hail-storms, | to avoid the fate ne LN kind friend and brother 
dis 
and 16 is in ri 
insure. 
fund and a lit ttle mo of the i nsured. 
а Norfol 
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and І fancy uch good g 
from thinking a little less er the. rescrved оте пеаг Брава зру a bete of days at 
It all our corn Croydon T4 h Mr. Ha arrison, 
hat most of the farmers | Editor ha propor In order therefore, both | h 
od. No one|to escape the d au. Pes alio ta give the most recent 
an ] do, or feels eon of an eye-witness, avoiding all reference to 
i publieations, ithi 
gby а а 
Birmingham, a couple of d at the Craigentinny n 
of it then. - Mr. Же, over whose la: ні most of it is 
use o 
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and taking Essex, сей rats the ө Mapka Sands, 
Jam losses of 0 P 20 Mes rs, there is at arn iab Оа Rayleigh, ын Su and 
ying to find o 
arl of Essex а id 
the next | farm at Aldershot, And I propose t о tell you wha* I 
teate Py in | have seen and heard within the last | two months at ms 
thetic con- | these p AM. 
ade fc the evidence of an еен accus- 
of the ^p эй spi ied. Bu it is pod pen that 
esc gh tbe manure is here applied upon the land at 
st of he than 3d. per ton, and not much more 
ann о 
е | 
lee. оошу it, I did not meet with any one who w. 
e. Let me 
it for some wi 
еве cons d 
Aud insure against hail, tom ed to the d ая farms and to the examina 
i3 Mid rally been met "with this objection of ordinary and эуен dib 
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a. And this tand “pad been lately valn ey for te 
sulte 
the. wind and how дне. o» the hail. фиш for ibttante; Жу. 
am quite sure that the farmers w н 
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th t of 207. an acre, I think, in З selling volue, e, 
willingly pay examine RT in this way cba all the ques 
dowd in my | sewage is now being utilised, must ое a ceable 
i t 
iw o hail” rovided only that it be impartial ^ And if it 
15 is when objec ted, as it may, by advocates of any of t 
е being sewaged. And r saw goo od grazing land, 
, | which had е nlso sewaged—and was being sewaged 
t be| when I w 
ag 
lked over it—as full of Clover and sweet 
he | Grass, and 4 vnam pas producing Мае feed 
good deal of|schemes for 
age resulted | committed h imself to a vd articular view of the subject 
rady's Committee, must be 
if they could, ounced already prejudiced and partial, then 
pasture T ver. sed > р waged 
| —the one had M үн ы а 
the rra had been "fed,: ny fed, pi^ fel iie latter 
kept firm by the treading, and also " doubt 
