82 THE GARDINE aS) 
oral AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. —[Jaxvany 28, 1860, 
s. Sand Tint 
the 1 watencbooat « and sewer by which all that 
in bag was 
E Chake age all the recent aut! orities on = tam ds, The 
subject—Liehig, Mechi, Parkin, Way, and others— | London, whose sole affair this is, might be ‘required to 
before ever it can reach the Thames. 
e 
cites all the recent experience at Manchester, Glasgow, | purchase, if need be, thousan nda of acres, 
and sent on its journe ey to the sea | menced ploughing, ainiin, an liming the sterile 
‘the neck of that sewer night be arian in the march | parks, which in a few years e waving with ey 
description of luxur ce an imultaneous is 
these improvements, exte ane ve operations were be 
hilt 
ploughing up the e rugged nat: 
Rugby, Leicester, Cheltenham, &.—and gives a pes | with the contents of this London hobby- -horse ; | but | lea, removing stones from the surface, draining = 
deal of information on the healthfulness [!] of the occu- | not be allowed to create any nuisance. substantial stone dykes, which formed ee 
pation of the so-called nightman. He has long rae _ rere their pits, er reservoirs, their drying patos ares, from 20 to 60 acres, so that the recently 
attention directed to this ject, wi s a letter | their filter beds, thei PES their dams, their flood- ral hill Was in a few , years a large farm y. 
writt 858 to the Royal Agricultural Society, | gates, their engines, tl eir p a all the contrivances, about 100 acres on its 
which we quote as containing — useful sti a or bad, "ai in ath, can suggest. meg The results obtained from. these im.. 
“ Chesterton Lodge, Bicest r, Oxon, Dee 21, bring | on pay fi fag Api "the bey oe the provements vl kbe a if we pan at the change 
“ Sir, —I wish to being +} b ti a: aurea and the success. What are a few tho $ = ch the ans — of the Ei: jai has under. 
the subject of sewage, under the Soop « the | or hundreds of thousands, well spent, compar For nen t a regular stock of 500 Cheyj 
eas of the Royal yio icultural Socie The subject | many millions „wasted ? Bu t until success is „cer rtain sheep, besides aak a 300 acres of — grazings : 
r 
a rect number of which we have no 
arm, 
tm already ret a their attention ; T 
t the modern plan of conducting all ‘sewage into | more 
t 
and Jose our aay, lest. we all a 
working their 
whilst the contra 
and is, at the same time, polluting the waters ar all “draw from the et without delay all 
A 
pa of the kin gdom at a rapidly i increasing rat 
ty E a £ 
"By that means we shall a 
the sewer, and re mischief, labour, a Turni 
e other, and give a more wholesome cae 
it off to the land, and bs 84 ag or "aie" > panes 4 the present tenant, the whole pr role ie 
farm about 20 a 
Hg and Potatoes sno it ‘annually ne 
i ips 
fatten poles ek 50 and 60 cattle, upwards of 300 
es of corn 
ne 
of 1 ime pasty of the water in art te rivers, a mad | practical turn to the public mind. But no place | should 
ponds 
e ogrenmouvensts we treated of in ess 
a 
sella A experiments and followed by wets | that bide point to which an enthusiastic deodoriser 
satin a Ae o “has s hitherto attained 
“1st. The amount t and value of, the man which is 
lost to the agri ag gees aidr of | Lett Gia pe 
cesspools, and the dealt o ore heroin them. 
#2 dly. The amount an value of the manure which i is 
ost 
£ 
— si EA Daa — a 
not thro 
ter-bed, t w ninan the solid mattor, but ae al the 
soluble in sus arg 3 but let it pass tbrough t 
f the field, bo which the green herb is rps tes | 
£ 
ing the sewage into strea 
health, growth, nage and Teng th of life of cattle. 
“Athly. The effect of when introduced into | 
ir vers. and which is more than such a filter-bed, and takes 
“3dly. The effect of differct t kinds of water on the | paso the soluble ma moe into combination with its own 
yash po meet on and remnant by the fi 
vent; 
dent persons, 
Farm No.2 was five years ago wholly a yo farm 
of 600 acres, and leased by a non-resident tenant. On, 
m 
weeks’ food in spring for the r 
e farm maintains. Formerly only eight indi. 
arm 
| parts.” 
Mr, Clarke invokes the aid of tl 
By cece . ; 
till visi ible, er bore testimony n the bad 
water, on the health, Bova fattening, and length of 
life of cattle. 
a Tee following, amongst other prizes, might be | 
“lat, For essays treating of the above subjects 
generally. 
“2ndly. For the best ing of constructing cesspools, 
th for a prisio, and as receptables for sewage from 
drains, farmyards, &c. tt of separate houses or of 
villages and for intercepting the sewage passing 
“aiy. Tor the best contrivances for emptying cess- 
and ds, as regards both liquid and solid 
matter, with a view rs its use for agricultural purposes 
ye r i 
emptied* th r 
with solid sul ees 
FARMS E 
| own prai ipaworthy ox 
Mak ma been e 
roine becomes poetical on the subject :— 
ung 
“ I thought the poets had not sun 
a such a useful thing as dune n 
But better days are now, 
Since damsels 'midst their "fruita and flowers, 
To — the oe of the eae 
To mix the soils know how. 
Se WES und is Me oe many things, 
an 
A maiden's hand, i i 
Th 
Such buds will’ Pst fens Sage 
No better could be bought.’ 
tag 1 
ot last century, of "slept isolat 
leaving _ when exhausted to N 
KSHIRE.—Sever. alan ieto 
amples, in improving their } 
g apr ofPhiliphaugh an extra panem | ‘nearly ‘a pl teria — divided into large enclos 
ted. Only some six years a: h yield abu 
the farm ane of Pa barren Heath-clad hill—skir at 
f by The practi ds theend 
on "palaba a. 
ure to covery 
ndant cro Formerly it only g 
sheep, an s vas its 
best p 
. . towns, an 
agriculturist. on equitable naag keeping in view the 
health, convenience, and advantage of all ister: bay 
their mutual co-operation, and. their fair rateable 
tribution towards: the labours and weer rev he |r 
operation. “TI hav 
best, 
— pets or such doctors, into the Arno? #** 
weg £ should never have been permitted | as 
base, The 
ee 
Me 
hill which rises slirapiiy to an altitude of 
Ea E t feet from its base, was, previous to being 
med, of the poorest description, and Noon | urfac 
ue autumn sei the rich blossoms of its stinted | 
e most miserable Tandems 
i Ap all taea and subdivided into | 
rte osures—which yield abundan 
sev! 
to | which some a a: os 
aer; 
stn as S commodious us although somewhat fanciful 
home farm of Yair — improvements have 
acres haying been 
e nature of. the land on this farm, 
ciy with t jhe! elle of Ang 
tions have been laid out, and will soon shelter as well 
adorn In 
araroa ortion of oss 
this Ma was — and strong, therefore a 
the farm. n harmony w ith these improve- was rred i 
his farm is especially worthy of notice. “Tb was, 
being reclaimed, a a _ me with oo 
and 
u ssarily very ex msive, as 
r stones Sic a not only impeded drainage, but 
valueless, When oe oe by the pioagt: the 
seen to consist of a thin layer of sand, ini 
. The e greater propo: 
was expedient, But t I pass 
im mprovements as well as those which have 
oft a 
ieties of me when mixed | 
= state — has been sen by. tenant farmers, 
to be more an an auxiliary; and those that thought 
to find ere the way to to dispose of t t Hy hout On 
intruding on the n sewer; a kaş owner of the Shag been bag —nearly 400 
peine nea denatnod-ta ia Had such a policy been | reclaimed. Fro 
e rie derstandi ld 
out the best. contrivances, and the 
Salih a have amply appa the inventors—the 
produce might have found its oy ne. ete this to | operation “Of Tama eens 
their farms and gardens, vee. Son. ; rent into 
eir own pockets, zs 
great. mistake from 
from the 
the 
‘They wou 
directed their attention to find out tle way to 
closet sweet with the least amount of wa 
a would not have been first left in the hands of 
s r z 
d not hav in 
to. “day ‘superseded by the destructive, a the cost: of | 
millio I see no oe why some experiment should | undergone a severe system 
ildi i wet a 
‘as 
speculation, or „even in some of the present districts. | very 
p inferior- pastures. for 
everal m l and well-constructed cesspools, | summer grazings, and real "o paea suay ban 
from which all useless waste of water is excluded, are | with. those generally. obtained. for Grass 8. 
far more manageable and | pensive than those | portion of the farm under leas re 
igantic sewers, in he ae of useless | upwards of 700 a ith 
water which is introduced, we first: crea difficulty, 
which afterwards we can only soars iiia T 
great: labour and cos 
Ey 
ven, however, though all the wasteof London beput 
contents to | | 
Bye g eg: 
provements I refer to, b 
| Ee these for your priv 
1 is 
ex. 
d arduous as have been the an 
effected S some of the landlords of the couni | 
have in in several instances been | i surpassed | gr 
not Bere. give oes i oe 
kulkas a goaanntonat good faith, z 
is a farm N 18 y 
charac 
limed, pF ine exellent crops: of Oats and Tu 
ts I 
— 
ago, w. 
piston, a = se in the 
Th 
ae te several fields, and although its slopes are 5 
patat Roe = ye go ement of the f 
the appearance of 
Paar on to farm No. 12 in the same $ 
“Eee gaem nn —_ se 
to those 
te are partly =o resting: on-a reste 
to 9 Ba 
No. 4 is the 
county, the altit 
rom 700 to 1100 feet. 
elevation, it prod 1 
and Grass cto if 
y favoured situations. Nearly 300- 
y all rest on a Groywacke formation 
