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at least, to beat all his rivals out of tlie field. At tlie price at 
which I have reckoned milk, viz. 8f/. per gallon, no doubt 
can exist of a market for every quart which he can pro- 
duce, and I would therefore urge its especial advantages over 
the production of meat. There can be no question that the 
supply of really pure and wholesome milk is by no means equal 
to the requirements of the population. It is seldom that the 
children of the poor in large towns can procure even a small 
quantity of this most nutritious food, to satisfy the requirements 
of their growth, whilst it is difficult to overrate its value in the 
increase of health and stamina to the labouring man hittiself. 
On public grounds, therefore, the production of this necessary 
in greater quantities is most desirable, and the sewage-farmer 
will find himself able to supply a much felt want with advantage 
to himself. 
I by no means presume to offer the above or any other plan as a 
model one ; but, bearing in mind the necessity for the extensive 
cultivation of such crops as will best repay the application of 
sewage, I venture to offer this solution of a difficulty which at 
once besets the sewage-farmer (viz. the disposal of his produce) 
as not unworthy of attention. Tentative, indeed, as every 
attempt at a system must be with our present knowledge, I 
believe the above will be found to afford as satisfactory results 
as any method which has been already tried. 
Makket-Gaedejt. 
I shall not attempt an enumeration of the garden crops which 
experience has proved to pay so well on sewage-farms. I have 
said that almost any produce can be cultivated without difficulty. 
With good management, and a good market, the return of 30Z. 
per acre which I have modestly stopped at, will probably be very 
much exceeded ; but I have already pointed to the speculative 
character of some of these transactions. Nevertheless the more 
enterprising man will undoubtedly succeed better than his more 
easily satisfied neighbour. I am assured on good authority that 
double the amount named might easily be made, and is, in fact, 
realized not unfrequently by London market-gardeners. There is 
certainly no reason why, in the neighbourhood of the metropolis 
at least, the profits of the latter should not be equalled or even 
excelled. But as the minute and exact practice required for such 
results will hardly be attained upon so large a scale by the direc- 
tion, however energetic and skilful, of one man, I would by all 
means recommend the adoption of the plan followed at Aldershot, 
and suggest the sub-letting of plots upon this quarter of the farm to 
local gardeners, providing land and sewage alone. The fact that 
