FEBRUARY 4, 1805.] 
THE GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTUR 
AL GAZETTE. 109 
th 
le of the stuff із to come through i 
prre ers down to Mr. Blackb 
f ove 
This is | soil i is more or les: 
aste. | all along South Аы westwa. 
a tract n near Stanford- le-Hope, where 
РЧ ИТ H rum ү 1 
*3 ha & A f, EH 
gravel, the land 
rd fro prine pe is a | 
soil Most of it is viiam a proof of dry |r 
Ber Ашын - ue Essex su ub land would 
stiff clay 
i nd 
гет: Е — 
roin 
iw food and trade have run so lo ong. ‚ dow 
egion of food, even oci mo ke cheap «а Менби, 
апа „the N peces of artificial vafer will have 
inches of 
bU day would 
There і is, however, another opportunity of a market 
Essex agriculture. 
the amp is almost wholly a surface кашг: narrow 
EL pipes to the centre ж. ао 5 acres, and 
ver through surface-pi 
ery 14 acre, and Шошо: by hose 
E a gm and 
for an acre. 
А man | hor orses 
am 
А | probably eed draining will succ жн» 
f | Whe: B d, 
| fallow; straw is e EU London "ers до b c 
be str 
Almost the whole of this 
grow i corn and straw for London, 
district is arable, 
and fertili sed by 
epe of harrow, drill, &c., аге данай 
ilkin ws, and these furrows 
еба бау "esas ónt bY a — following the 
ted 1 
et is, you may say, по stock. It is ou that it 
Grass were supplied to the farmers here they would 
milk 
and send 
ci eat to 
bv 
sowing machine, and they are then у 
cut furrows cleaned out by hand necessary. 
n adopted in places, and 
after it. It is 
Vetches and 
cue 
cultivation has been 
eat and an land, with occasional 
f the 
London, making manure for. iode 1 rather than at 
great labour and expense send ет w to Ae don АЕ апа 
dung. Ап 1 
rt it could be 
out, Fabien be the best way of reed of the тойа 
of sewaged 1а land. гав Grass would be sold, if 
back. at abou t t 
to put ut the е sewage | оп before 
gh, more easily рн rre 0 aud if it 
d fi Ано eer mile, I believe 
straw for 
ds 
"id Rn pens dung. "here is is gm any 
stock to be s 
ess the sales of straw to the bargem 
m the bargemen seid 
An odios 
and purchases of manure es 
he 
t the rate of 200 t 
There is a quantity of v 
TE ag na for 
rrigatio he 
only as a second 
It seems to me that slope of worth- 
less sand at one end of the] line, i in d dii i immense scope 
which exists for ап rema of ed p 
reen m properly аа 8 worth s 9s. а ton 
milk, it is h n 155. 
hardly possi ble to ам t eit ue th at plietli on 8 
large scale, well situated эз depóts of Grass in a 
country "where there is a great demand for dung and 
- | ample supply of straw, т — winter food may easily 
th r 
be grown— wit eady ac 
resource. Té is with pipe and hose, and with an 
he 
economical use of the fresh MM, that 
to win, 
It is plain that Mr. Blackburn's plans are directly 
posed to those which. have been , producti veo of the 
ult, 
straw is at Ыбн sent 20, 30, ben ane de 
manure brought back as né и то ali [^ elements 
re quired for the pro ofit — of 100,000,000 
and putrid sewage, and to a feeding not of 
tie soil Date of the plant. 
, These, then, are the facts, mran agricultural—for I 
ei 
шет 
+1 А Р, 
T must not ed on. Then, these sands 
o use. In the utat; too, we shall probably be 
overstockod with the produce of the Grass sown there ; 
red. 
aste of London diues from тч of Rugby an a of | 
Dew UR уз equire 
OF m T PES 1, 
at once б d: and | ne or that 
under such ci ange in the 
style et mien of the district ond Cem 
grow; more stock would be kept upon the farms, and 
th пе тна € — would extend over the plough 
lands of South E 
astly, there is t t горой tunity offered to the tenants 
of all such la en as lie near the culvert, to use the 
| sewage on their own lands and grow tiis Grass them- 
selves, I presume it is ia part of any and every plan of 
using the 102,000,000 to ns per annum. of the London 
E 
Һа 1 
p А rising 
linbugh and of Croydon i in quantity : alone, 
In aba 
e from ^U tO OU Lons or W 
peracreinto 
waste of every — of the n. In every 
case, as water closets come more generally into HEH 
tion, this filthy water will become more fertilising. 
u$ I think it may be аны $о viue it 
"tent -fivi у hp: of well-g o Ita A ^A 
| gra only г 13}. а 
food, will yid отону 5 tons of ifa rts 
In 
EU 
gree 
m "than | 
20 t 
anufaeture of this quantity 
a local demand for its occurs. 
nars it may [^ шы by Mdh or in 
runnels over the surface of the field to be watered. 
I confess my strong Айат of the. latter. to the 
form mer. , The ere is all the di fference between them that 
aer ens the plan of course is cheaper, itr may be also 
eal in t If I had 
diy 10, si tous of the stuff per annum to pour over 10 
slope 
Seri this wonld, I presume, be sn 
n " 13 tb all 
/ P B 
n *£e Fail ing th 
surely is the proper guide for estimate and foresight | Paai 04 e deret Ро inih Mp can Hem ge for | 
here. If we had 15,000 to 20,000 acres of light 6 г 7L, ther will be rofit, n the The | quite as economic: 
and sandy slopes below the present outfall of g open 
mec t agricultural experience- would point. at | ied or ghakorn from the н of: a v shaft or. building to | acres оп a 
very easy Weis of Е аи which it had bee E d might duri 
Failing these, Messrs, Napier a ose to | downwards be s subféoted 60 а current of hot dry air | dressings), I 
h London Sewage е (100, 000,000 | upwards, 80 as to come out dry enough" ы stack; ; Or 1 
tons р per annum) 50. or 60 feet, үз nd let ht b d|t 
‚16 flow 
o юш n to Foulness 
subjected to the same influen nce, entering it green and 
dry. 
from T sea, Eo 
ey be d E there 
the face of i hus dealing 
green Grass, which will d in t 
‚Апа if6 or 7 tons оё h 
= of йй -— 
ay per acre are 
У 
у urface flow, to an pum distiibution over 
the ire tod idi stant hydrants, each of which 
must be managed by hand, delivering no more at a 
time than would sink into the са and there be all 
used. If, however, occasional reservoirs existed whence 
this sewage would be «тайлы: in either way in 
lea 
got at Craigentin nny. Thi 
tene and in ie mea Mor edi yn: by year, on 
Hough а direct б of Die were had for all at 105. 
tell us that 6 to 10 gra water 
we may safely leave those who have 
i make a profit by its use to their own devices as to 
s management. Anyhow, if by 2 m of surface 
water аб а 
E^ of 
be taken m by every 100 cubic HAN raised from 
say 60? to 180° E 200°, even utl the space, or 
had b 
whether or not in an eres tear pec oid pie 
wasteful way, as some MM think (at all events very 
much after the w. 
we may sa s air which ge it, een 
saturated at iun tomberait 
tons of water v this wa j 
i fro 
second or third use is цу е clarified, pe it is plain 
de the эй vt эзчу result is attained; and 
reat expense it ants and in detailed distribution 
wil i in that case bet au бра Ө for no useful en 
one е remark to make, 
ed—that 
a drought it would 
way in which Craigentinny is at present | of air equa ons ol I believe I have only 
а )—combining "ith this the scope which is feet, «а. raise it hod: 60° 51 ‚апа keep it | and bat hinges on the conclusion 
ir orded for t t that Mee ipn ін while it was passing through a |if the water leave the land рану рт foer 
and considerate use of the sewage all through the shaft. or aere or long enough to get saturated at | whel 
lower part of Essex, on its ме to the rin out- | the higher t ist fti t ^ e dy 
All—this scheme has the advantage of i vals. Grass as 16 was being brought along the passage. reir A. inim ugh free im feetillsing 
Tt certainly has the sanction of the е view | Сап such а shaft or passage, say 4 feet deep aud нане: i itself invaluable, and in 
of a e subject wi "ne | Rugby, Edinburgh, Croydon dam 10 feet wide, be kept at the temperature i in question, | often pay for pumping and for distribution; but when? 
and while Al shot, Vith i and have air 
MEA Lm. " the material, is still a о. 
icd if if thats € succeed, it too may be copied easily | 
e which ге 
the line of EM pn Nube 
‘Sands аб its termination offer for 
London sewage. 
‚ The Maplin Sands, a considerable width of which it 
рори t mbank, are a uniform е of sheer 
not gi sufficiently i inclined for catch-water irriga- 
it at the rate of about 800 у ards an hour for 21 hours, 
nd 
f& and 
Broges is perfectly | r 
good. The conversion of the green Grass iuto hay, is a 
not believe in this extra 
agriculture ot a coun ty, I 
eid 
Мей m the je water " г wie rage ai 
advo of icular жолра 
additional fi asian of pounds y their. anticipated 
receipts. 
We have inthis net varieties of rainfall amounting 
which can be stored. And nnde as [ do, 
rd 
sand, 
tion; bnt p probably enough for the ridge lin 
feeders o ande iis tendin E wards i ud 
ongles from tbe shore ; which ^ lands * might be hid 
dninn а ides Suticiently steep and with intervening 
also hi їзє жон; апа чё series 
A such lande, 300 or ards long apiece, all pointing 
rime might be lai out in the breadth reclaimed ; 
f the fi rm 
of | the 
change from | goods. for which there is insufficient to 3000 and 4000 to of water per acre per annum ; but 
r little upon this ; 
goods for which there is always:a demand, dari нар tyles of indes resulting from these differ- 
rule differ materially in 
that the immediate effect of any great exten- | the quantity of rent which is qe uuder each. 
e|sion in the ee eiui ye don, of such | That depends оп the composition an: е, #6 the 
i of wr ВЫ or | land, 
even that of Croydon (the eres rorem examples by | on the neighbo 
the way which we have to follow) would at once glut 
market, and altogether overflow the demand for its 
al h 
of good m 
On this нуе тн ee I must not longer detain 
you, and I vill conclude by naming t the results to 
produce, I believe t that "d question of artifici 
making is of г importan 
What 
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Collecting these nearly into one, although I have not 
i cene ie allotted аг д all the 
Е 
ei * 
ust be formed, yet the 
J 
on dee score "e the 
in-drains о! t series collectin, 
mmu used there for a second use over t hird s 
Ds the tail water of the second series b 
me and so on. The islan ulness, all 
g 
Fo 
the side next the sands a 
8 
m Ъ 
а «t peint of the materi al to bea iti ici- 
which а 
Уучу E which I Mire that. re agriculturist is 
led after a study of the "om pai that G 
rdina: 
pated, -N 
rs of our | 
о 
чен ^ : r mark, is on 
aratively light soil, in prine shallow upon a sand 
Sübsoj| q X suitable for irrigation, кубе A aas 
ou 'or В" тп т 2 
А 
Rochford and the Wakerings, 
aspect of a so far as the certainty of a erop is con- 
fir st yea 
and ordinary irrigat as "the ind E 
as involving a minimum o фати the proper 
agen nts by which the › conversion, whic! ch we ац desire, 
Tek 
igiiur experience of it, ме 
HIER 
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