430 
Half-a-dozen English Sewage Farms. 
Year. 
Costs and Returns of Southern Sewage Farm. 
Valuation and 
E.Npendituie. 
Receipts and Valua- 
tion. 
Profit. 
1870- 1 
1871- 2 
1872- 3 
1873- 4 
1874- 5 
1875- 6 
£ s. d. 
1351 8 0 
3068 18 5 
■ 4103 14 3 
4346 15 3 
4529 6 2 \ 
5206 12 5 
£ S. d. 
1880 18 4 
3588 11 1 
4486 19 5 
4471 12 2 
4569 17 4 
5262 19 10 
£ «. d. 
529 10 4 
519 12 8 
383 5 2 
124 16 11 
40 11 2 
56 7 5 
Total . 
22606 14 6 1 -24200 IS 2 
1654 3 8 
Tunbridge Wells, like Cheltenham, delivers its drainage- 
Avater by gravitation to its sewage farms upon a lower level. 
Unlike Cheltenham, it has become burdened with very heavy 
law, Parliamentary, and engineering costs. Unlike Cheltenham, 
too, it has had to pay enormously lor the land which it has had 
to buy ; and though with one-half the population of that town, 
and with therefore not more than half its quantity of filth to 
cleanse, it has spent more than four times as much in the abate- 
ment of the nuisance it had created. 
Bedford. 
Bedford, with nearly 20,000 inhabitants, receives 250,000 
gallons of water daily from its waterworks ; and this, with much 
ordinary subsoil drainage water in addition, passes into its 
sewer, thus delivering about 700,000 gallons daily to its pumping 
station about a mile out of the town, where that quantity is lifted 
every day on to about 180 acres of very suitable land close by. 
Of this area 29 acres are Corporation property, and the rest is 
hired on lease of twenty years from the Duke of Bedford, the 
Rev. J. C. C. Campion and Captain Polhill-Turner — and the 
whole, at a rental of 917/. 4s. a year, costs a little more than 5/. 
per acre. To this, however, must be added the annual burden 
created by a very large outlaj^ 16,657/. Is. Id., on engineering 
works, buildings, embankments, and pumping-apparatus ; and 
to the annual payment for the discharge of this large sum in 
thirty years there must be added about 360/. a year as the cost of 
pumping, before the whole of the burden per acre is arrived at 
to which the agricultural and engineering rents amount. No 
land on which either to cleanse or utilise town sewage could be 
better fitted for the purpose ; but so heavy an annual cost as this 
is clearly beyond tlie power even of the most productive market- 
gardens to meet. Twenty acres of the land, which is generally 
