70 UtiUsation of Totm Seimfje. 
"The produce of one set of experiments has been given, in 
the green state, to fattening oxen ; that of the second set (in the 
same condition) to milking cows ; and that of the third (though, 
as afterwards explained, very little sewage was applied to it) has 
been made into hay. 
" The results obtained in the first year's experiments, con- 
ducted as above described, are briefly summarised, under separate 
heads, in the present short Report It will be obvious, 
however, that the results of a first season only must be taken as 
little more than initiative on many points ; and that their nume- 
rical indications cannot be taken as the basis of safe deduction 
in regard to the economical questions at issue without much 
caution and reservation. 
"I. Quantities of Sewage applied, and of Green Produce obtained.''* 
"Table I. — Showing the number of Tons of Sewage-water applied on each 
Plot, up to the end of October, in each of the two Fields. 
First Seasok, 1861. 
Sewage-ttatee pee Acbe. 
Five-acre Field. ■ 
Ten-acre Field (Ualf). 
Plot 3, 
Plot 3. 
Plot 4. 
piot;2. 
Plot 3. 
Plot 4. • 
March . . . . 
July 
August 
September . . 
October 
Tom. 
• 632-05 
270-85 
75-82 
78-78 
531 -07 
130 -CO 
143-14 
201 -09 
Tons. 
1045-12 
666-40 
96-49 
223-32 
430-18 
580-17 
703-32 
678-23 
Tons. 
1444-16 
1176-98 
97-66 
577-23 
654-05 
787-28 
614-72 
800-66 
Tons. 
563-04 
18-32 
512-01 
225-90 
33-98 
33-<JS 
Tons. 
1145-91 
64-14 
392-18 
316-30 
517-72 
367-68 
Tons. 
1376-91 
118-82 
392-26 
905-73 
595-11 
381-81 
455-84 
Total .. .. 
2073-60 
4423-23 
6152-74 
1387-23 
2803-93 
4226-48 
Kate per annum 
3110-40 
6634-84 
9229-11 
2378-11 
4806-74 
7k5-39 
" In the five-acre field, the produce of which was devoted to 
the feeding of oxen, the ajjplication of sewage did not commence 
until March 6, 1861, none having been applied in 1800. But 
the quantities applied on the respective plots up to the end of 
October were, upon the whole, pretty nearly at the rates in- 
tended ; namely those of 3000, 6000, and 9000 tons per acre 
per annum. 
"The ten-acre field had been dressed with undetermined 
amounts of sewage in 1860, and during February of the year of 
the 
