424 Half-a-dozen Enr/lisJi Sewage Farms. 
an unusual extent of Italian rje-grass, occupied in very much of 
an ordinary style of cropping. Out of 263 acres, 56 acres were 
taken up with wheat, 36 acres with barley, 7 acres with oats, and 
13 acres with beans ; 114 acres were taken up with green crop — 
Italian rye-grass (42 acres), clover (7), swedes (24), mangolds 
(35), and potatoes (6). There were also 7 acres in bare fallow, 
6 in garden-ground, and 24 in permanent pasture. Potatoes were 
looking very promising, exceedingly full of growth, with, how- 
ever, some indication of disease ; mangel-wurzels were looking 
very well. They had all received occasional dressings of sewage 
during their growth. The grain crops were admirable ; and the 
Italian rye-grass, most of it in full growth, was being sold af 
the rate of about 30 tons a week, at prices which had varied 
from as much as 30^. a ton down to 15s. Probably the speciality 
of the Doncaster sewage-farm is its garden-ground, which, lying 
admirably for the reception of sewage, will no doubt ultimately 
be enormously productive. Besides ordinary garden vegetables, 
there were beds of fruit — strawberries, gooseberries, and currants ; 
all of which had been sewaged, and owed their productiveness in 
some measure, so it was believed, to the occasional irrigation 
which they had received. 
The stock upon the farm included 8 cows in-milk, upwards 
of 30 head of various ages ; and a flock of 80 ewes, whose 
lambs had been sold fat. A rental of 800/. is paid for the 
farm, the cost of pumping, 300/., being included with the sewage 
in this gross rental. The annual labour-bill approaches 1000/., 
and the returns must thus exceed 1800/. a year before the tenant 
begins to receive a return for his capital and skill. This sum, 
over 250 acres, amounting to 7/. an acre, will certainly be 
without much difficulty realised ; and Mr. Brundell having so 
large an area at his command is wise in only gradually stepping 
out of the regular agricultural routine ; from which, however, he 
will, no doubt, more and more diverge into the cultivation of 
succulent and market-garden crops in preference to ordinary 
grain crops, as he obtains an increasing market for his produce. 
The farm is well equipped with buildings ; and it may easily 
in a few years become one of our best examples of good sewage 
cultivation. " 
TuNBiuDOE Wells. 
Tunbridge Wells is a town of nearly the same population as 
Doncaster — 19,410 at the last census. Having been restrained 
some ten years ago by an injunction — obtained at the instance of 
Mr. Julian Goldsmidt, who owns property in the northern valley 
below it — from throwing its filthy drainage-water into the Cal- 
