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reple enished by the droppings SUE the | cattle w hich 
ay | flow either over or through the lan tand 
hickl, th: nd, pa retained the original quali Д are those а face the south, Shih py as suf- ш = splolit E mw za үс 
of th gia г which i isg — and at Ragby also, ficien & slo ope t а буш a rapid flow of the e sewage |n dre eot er vali e rage from iig 
? Ар pumps Ms 
Trend, injured m 1 it od n ip dim ge trough È the s land, i, cutting— а go d p eal less than is poured on nat аі 
MASS fter tho use а АН white bits hav by the Un over sibus ч in natural Grass м MD i 
for ordinary ekeit g purposes after the bas = 2 1 hob 14-15 be worth 20, ап aere durin 
taken according to the strict meaning of these words. alwz ays remain the vet ; it is Mage. unio p. sos ape sammer, m hl 35, dic b MD той к 
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мины роде: al akeat pt mn pent indan p | (eis dy are caris T the supply month а nep o метле not at all 
bru Gaya iplar Geya bas E sustained. the scythe, that command the €— bows to the land, hist richer at the end of all this 
VIMPRANE NOD киле ии whi ch are og aote as if they hb manuring than 16 was at the beginning. 
ham, the sewers which drain the two | average yield o the meadows. The early p^ is| So mach, p the Edinburgh meadows: —If the gros 
2. At Birming! am, the se kman as much as ls. Les ewt. M Ld to proceeds o е la nd, be „раб do: wn as 80007., nd 
the field a t it for himself, although the 
амын) жы the n s iN and esce eir [E бөрү vo year is not worth sh. ees Win СА „ | the ү аз 15 : Aug u € лай di il d 
teh so lo | аз А wice), I do 
wm the — ratively cle dir water is allowed to to flow and that is how those early pieces | fe ich so gp s P ii suppose that m ore thar . per t on is obtained fro ied 
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Dad AM jme TM by the Corporation and this 107 а gallon in the » spur inde i wo am. Gd. a | the sewage. Тһе 
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is pumped Walker's diaphragm pump to опе | cwt. - more, perhap upon an average, to the cow- | the use of v у разн ing Sewage in | 
b kee and carry a mile, or even two or three, y { 
>; — on of ад "This мам к H it nd not pex o much for any other кре lt will Aud poor. though y be as P with the resalta { 
koe ймы that am gth they ar the ве for foeling neither cattle, sheep зе їопз ОЁ кк vae are the. most pr rofitable - 
into es on the canal which passes a few. hundred and thus ib is t ua it is dps x pronoztian 
yards i he various farms al to e demani is for it! 
the E үйлө uo howovor 2 P — that the price is ат ог поб. The prices named |. 4. Compare them with the results on farms near 
ed r the costs ted wit e proc were as high 20 years ago as now. "There were thon London. 
In the Воль сй m soluble and ente Lacy of one-third fow er cows than now, s bue: were S ul en Near , Croydon Mr. Marriage deals with | the 
Birmingham se wage is goin ng do wn t the river as before. about one- -third fewer acres then А |5 
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1 Азов b у an extent. of about 250 acres. He uses the 
1 f th phe o from | added, Italian Rye rass, ъа п пр every third year e d а зач ог third time. His fields vary from 
Qn vil incra son S emis t wy resown pe eem a Potato crop, has hes cot 300 to 500 yards long. The feeders are 15 yards apart, | 
at Lochen: d,e e the natural fall of the stream, and the “panes” or beds between them s ink trans { 
sely at once 
from these parallel feeders pour 
the sewe doy were qobrir: from АЧ ЕЁ БИП aud tH6 
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hesen xen the same effect, as formerly, piu itt Aa fotohes e the average pi, Ithoug l 
to the tenant, Vedan the right of the Co rporation © doe qw ERAS achiev: p f them, inet lin ere are no inter 
charge a rent upon m for this water, which is, he vits of meu Jr vening d dra, but any cubic inch of sewage may | leur 
alleges, no etronger er the original foul river water. | At Da alry, too, ind di Grange, natural Grasse 
Bat 1б із flat land, and occasionally the water lying| Rye-grass, have been sown n along with in uda x воў bed by the gravel subsoil, trickle over the whob | 
on theland bas killed the Grass instead of benefiting dressings of cho pped Couch, aud watered by the fou i length o th the be Кыю to es UM dA 2 o: il, 
i is із а contingency which may, I suppose, be | stream, y f; or it may leave the feeder 10 yards frou 
ы olini геј [sum the Venise da manu- | for newly laid down piec Whatever Grasses e | the ба and trickle ошу 10 or 15 yards to the drain 
facturing town. » will be quoted by the advocates of | sown originally, Poa фый, Alopecurus кешеш, elose by. A very close d thick growth о id Grass, with 
всапиу dressings as a risk to which those who use and E. Шш Thy th Banco rass, n ot Cover Арен s the a и exists i t imal je 
antities Mos ecially liable. 16 t weeds — and w he land is 80 ural pasture, which has come of itself afier 
peras due to ep гүүсү өң. on whieh, with its | Аай кай driest, Ue grass, оиа Mes fis &c., | the uu ye-grass without any direct ge 
е, s вагѓасе сн О e, the water was allowed to | ultimately form the pastu ould be Ы Ж, eed, ze s e di died be. 
ually does, after the second ог third yem 
B r. Ps: or Walker is urging the dist го fully thick and кыйнаш „азу, ЖО той like айап Rye-gr rass is bowi a in аа п, шыт, бот 
z^ the inr зен ^t the pen Деге, ud. erg s | en bro . 
their 20,000, 000,000 tons of it p num would, at which I have just r red. Wurzel S: Чой ат ге Potatos, v dies із вота 
even jd. а yield a Йер revenue Wires ud| At erigi oe o, the meadows have been|down again. A cutting of 10 or 12 ns of Grass in 
the. cost of distribution. It seems to me that we | ad nally, aud pumping engines rem May is followed by others of about t 4, and 3 04 
have here an example of a ang of a great | been жа. r^ extend the limiu he area tenen so thà& upwards of 20 and up to 250% 
town drainage, where the water-closet system must be | commanded by the stream; but t у BE s longer | of green food are go&foruse. This, however, is certainly. 
rapidly nding, ng, which is ready for "ar turned | used, for it has been found here more than once pex than might be expected. Mr. Marriage 
immedia! tely to agricultural account. 16 is however|that if bub a few acres in excess of the demand | that there is no good derived from drainage ; me 
fair to mention, Hel р of the leading medical | аге brought into the market, the average price of | surface feeding as 16 flows is depended on; b ut the 
men in Birmingham end cutting off a portion | the whole at once drops І cannot too stro ougly gravel subsoil here does. supply a nat tural drain: nage Wt | 
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the water-closets. Both Dr. Bell Fletcher 2. бы: sewage, that this i t indeed of t Land in the neighbourhood, an di 
Chesshire e om bri знн by which etd = them to da bre 400 wh before rne. v s worth 927. an aere; Mr 
retai! in ible —À for eolieetion а ОРЕ sewaged Grass suffice for 2000 co The | Marriage аде ра в 5/. and м in good spirits. І hop 
at peat ^ half- Wy id rvals by might ca 3s ts | people of Edinburga and I Leith are far better "supplied he is here to state his е К ңы He gets]. 
as rre And this эз ең if 16 shoul ted believe, upwards of 20s. a ton Grass in tomt 
would to some extent diminish the value of the waste. койса for every 100 of the population. An d the3 000 10 miles off, and 125. jo E a iud for it m 
а е е this rate РА, the metropolis, osi all|the ground, his own men ing it and weighing _ 
3. We now come to the Edinburgh meadows. The | be bo fe d during summer, according to ће Edinburgh rate, | it. Bine helps the lr growth amazing. | 
5000 acres Р Grass. f p^ re be апу considerable | It is n to put it on twice between the спішу - 
the North-east, at Grange upon the South, T ыу increase of of the supply near London be eyond the the interval еше five or віх we 
upon the West, ibas n е some Edint | th o dressings 
Grass land, over whic 2 m filthy natural Т фе of | perience that the Edinburgh prices will not be main- e it 
the town is poured as inary water meadows. The |tained. Probably, the chief way out of Коу difficulty | on Pe 30 
lands are о gonotally sloping so as to enable a rapid flow, | шк be to copy Lochend in gro 5 
and the streams which wash s ia valleys Via TN for which there is а demand other than that of cow- 
Edinburgh is spread, rece the drain of i ts | keepers. 
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is ач mye a eficient as elsewhere. 10 is p 
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ro water supply by lich беу аге thus ан | x sewage will for many years be the t diff " a i Ed 
great difficult that [ wil leave behind it on the 2 j 
give an ab Ame irri n to the land. From |in the way of a profitable result. Without dicuihy available for it п Td фае :—150 acres d 
10060 to 2 to 20, 1000 ton per [o^ ann ually are t thus dis- | here, in detail, the quantity of sew nid to which the Edin- | Italian Rye-grass at tons = tons at " 
d that tho aran e| = 180 vh ios f zela eao Т с 
between the cuttings of he Grass, of whioh, Tes and | of an area covered by more than 100, 000 peopl proud | to tons at 2, i eros of rs of Potatos ab 6 d 
four, and e rarely die. are taken in tons "a 70s. = 10501. In all nen "rotation d 
of the seaso Perhaps the best illastration of the|that the waste 110m all hesg people reaches s weh { ; i el Wurzel, ul 
eres and, mine бабта rass thus treated | ат six to ten fboding Mer du td jg plain 
in and isi 
ia spl arri шш or pops every th ; danti of the Italian Ryegrass; and Н m 
M tut between the mi adle pril and the end o MAN c ible | cannot doubt the possibility.. It ie ошу grad A 
f| of f boa hbi ag that a market has been obtained foc the dee АЫ 
Ie day оаза along "with about id кыы! it and carrying it а mile or two home ivl ig for | maki on d amplas. Е оцу Y nd, bt ошуй 
of spent t from the distilleries. If the| 237. to 25/7. per ago on ап average, exceeding 35/. m uneven supply. The second aud third € uttings S 
year suffered from the d ht, иф der a ho 
d yielding nearly the : seemed that the tendency o St às Grass to t » 
в, bu tI cannot doubt that the | marketing of the | mixing jage’ ans for the fature 
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which keeps six of them must be close on 50 ton average price is the poorest Rer ide 
еа е z — um average aam ar is 291 to to 25l; great deal of it, watered with tail water каче 
t grows. om a 
i "lio pu 24 cows in Leith, that. һе | Tt Iti is ай mowed and mowed, the produce being poe 
,and it maintains its Bre ine 4000 
= yr growth is is sold, 4 acres for his Aem, dte ед year under t this abundant se ies e irrigatio nd ps | provided with e i T Y 29 
eu nU M iven — One fact more of grea : | opera! осібно оу 
Some of ке BE oe Grass is - S sold Меште ce. Ee Eur prions «d yc кыны стану у mall valuo in small i begins EL. | 
ks d cud уе x mutet p a peg d Е iched; a grain его followiag the heaviest | ЖШ, cuti M and d Pte jd r de "anm à 
ds EM ke b SE D ЗБ [n d оп the sandy soil will fail unless it be itself | over 30 to 40 ас "T n Е. Pa during WOA y , 
рег acre. The worst pi Ed De Я ing tid "Tuer pss M net Led А. Hr е on must be mad айе о of he Camp ^ e 
drained, which are thus incapable of getting a rapid | be most liberally а manured, 3 он а ето 21800: пае Lie ші 
ye-grass | are flooded and flushed out at regular interval 
