Farmimj of Yorkshire. 
more favourably tested tlian near such towns as Leeds, Sheffield, 
Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, York, and Hull. We trust that 
the present generation will find means to stay the vast waste of our 
sewage, as efTeetual as those already applied to the supj)ly of gas 
and water. 
This is not a proper place for a lengthened discussion on this 
subject. Its great importance, however, must be our apology for 
pursuing it a little further before we proceed to a consideration 
of our second division ; for this is not a tenant's but a landlord's 
question. A tenant cannot be expected to take up a scheme of 
such magnitude, though he might and would essentially aid its 
working. With regard to the expense, let us instance the cost of 
supplying with fertilisers a well-cultivated farm of 200 acres of 
ordinary land. To keep up a regular supply of manure, such a 
farm requires ten tons of linseed cake, or in lieu thereof an equiva- 
lent in corn ; also in artificial manures, either ammoniacal or 
phosphoric, a further annual outlay of 80/., which will make a 
yearly cost of 200/., or 1/. per acre. Such an estimate is not 
a high one for manure only, lime, &c., not being included. We 
purpose to replace this outlay by offering 20s. per acre for a jet 
of "sewage supply," and we think the experiment would be a 
boon to the farmer, and present to the contractor an ample profit 
on the outlay for interest and working expenses. Charnock gives 
some pertinent remarks on this subject. He mentions {Journal, 
vol. ix., p. 309) a case of land growing wheat in succession many 
years, and producing thirty-nine and forty-two imperial bushels 
per acre. He says, " Now this land adjoins the river Calder, 
the floods from which have proved a sufficient manuring to main- 
tain its full fertility and yet grow successive crops of wheat year 
after year, and this field is by no means a solitary instance of the 
richness of this and many others of the West Riding valleys that 
are watered by its rivers." 
We have during the last ten years collected reliable data of 
the money value of sewage, and we will give our expeiience in 
the hope of stimulating the interested parties, landlords in par- 
ticular, to commence operations in this county, which offers such 
peculiar facilities. We commenced experiments at Sigglesthorne 
by building underground two cisterns, each capable of holding 
from 3000 to 4000 gallons : they were made watertight. Into 
one of these the contents of two water-closets are collected ; into 
another a third water-closet and all the "slops" of the house. 
The family averages fourteen persons, and for the last ten years 
the whole sewage of the house has been carefully preserved and 
applied — first to a flower-garden of three acres, a moderate-sized 
vinery, shrubbery, and kitchen-garden, and the remainder put 
