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HOCKINGS GARDEN MANUAL. 



Mr. Chadwick relates the experience of Mr. 

 Barber. Murdnackwood. This gentleman had twenty- 

 seven acres of land before his house, so poor that it 

 originally fed only two cows. In a stable near the 

 house were forty cows and four horses ; the dung of 

 the cows was put into a tank and largely diluted with 

 water, and with this he irrigated twenty-two acres. 

 With the refuse of his house and scullery he irrigated 

 rive acres. The produce was so large that on that 

 same plot he has been enabled to feed all the cows 

 and the horses : that is to say. the increased produce 

 was such, that forty-four animals were fed where 

 there had previously been only food enough for two. 

 Mr. Smith. Deanstone. says : 4> The practical result of 

 this application of sewage is, that lard which let 

 formerly at from 40 - to £6 per Scotch acre, is now 

 let annually at from £30 to £10, and that poor sandy 

 land, on the sea shore, which might be worth 2 6 per 

 acre, lets at an annual rental of from £15 to £20. 

 That which is nearest the city brings the higher rent, 

 chiefly because it is near and more accessible to the 

 points where the grass is consumed, but also partly 

 from the better natural quality of the land. The 

 average value of the land, irrespective of the sewer 

 water application, may be taken at £o per imperial 

 acre, and the average rent of the irrigated land at 

 £30, making a difference of £27 : but £2 may be de- 

 ducted as the cost of management, leaving £25 per acre 

 of clear annual income due to the sewer water."' 



Every farmer in Queensland should have one or 

 more tanks of liquid manure to apply to the roots of 

 his growing crops. To every pigsty, stable, and 

 ■water closet there should be a tank conveniently 

 situated (and fitted with a lid), from which a supply 

 could be at all times obtained, and being diluted 

 according to its strength, with three or six times its 

 volume, applied to such crops as require it. Care 

 should be taken not to use it too strong. 



