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414 Sewage-Farming. 
Course of Cropping upon 400 Acres of Sewage-Farm, 
100 acres cereals after mangold and cabbage. 
100 „ cereals after cereals. 
100 „ Italian rye-grass after cereals. 
50 „ mangold after rye-grass. 
50 „ cabbage after rye-grass. 
Total 
400 
100 
500 
market-crarden section. 
Diagram exLibitiug succession of Crops upon the above 400 acres. 
(Shift of four years.) 
50 Acres. 
50 Acres. 
50 Acres. 
50 Acres. 
50 Acres. 
50 Acres. 
50 Acres. 
50 Acres. 
Acres. 
First year . 
Corn 
Corn 
Corn 
Corn 
Mangold 
Cabbage 
Rye-grass 
Rye-grass 
= 400 
Second year 
Rye-grass 
Eye-grass 
Corn 
Corn 
Corn 
Corn 
Mangold 
Cabbage 
= 400 
Third year . 
Mangold 
Cabbage 
Rye-grass 
Rye-grass 
Corn] 
Corn 
Com 
Corn 
= 400 
Fourth year 
Com 
Corn 
Mangold 
Cabbage 
Rye-grass 
Rye-grass 
Corn 
Com 
= 400 
It is plain that the above plan would offer many advantages ; 
for, whereas cereal crops would never be taken more than two 
years in succession, a large proportion of them, and a convenient 
and moderate proportion of such crops as would be required for 
consumption upon the farm, would obviously reduce the diffi- 
culties of the disposal of the farmer's produce to a minimum. 
I believe that a stock of 150 cows could well be maintained 
on such a farm, and I shall proceed upon the supposition that 
such is the case. I will first, however, remark upon the cropping 
of the land. I have taken, for the sake of simplicity, such well- 
known farm-crops as mangold, cabbage, and rye-grass, though 
there are others scarcely less entitled to the sewage-farmer's 
favourable regard. For instance, upon a portion of the mangold 
land he would most likely grow carrots or parsnips, and potatoes 
might take the place of cabbage on such proportion as he chose 
of the land set down for the latter. I am only endeavouring to 
show, that with a town of 20,000 inhabitants, and with 100" 
acres given up to market-garden produce, he should on the 
remainder cultivate such crops as he can either dispose of him- 
self, or find a market for without much trouble. The rye-grass 
should be sown as early as possible after the harvesting of the 
corn crops, the mode of cultivation being followed which has 
been before described. The land should be broken up in the 
November of the following year, and irrigated during the winter 
in readiness for the mangold and cabbage crops which are to 
follow. The cereal crops should of course take the place of 
these as soon as practicable. 
