JOURNAL 
OF THE 
EOYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
OF ENGLAND. 
I, — Report of the Judges appointed by the Royal Agricultural 
Society of England to adjudicate the Prizes in the Sewage Farm 
Competition^ 1879. 
Two prizes, each of the value of one hundred pounds, were 
offered for the best-managed Sewage Farms in England and 
Wales, by the Mansion House Committee in connection with 
the London International Exhibition of the Society, and these 
prizes were accepted by the Council. One prize was offered in 
Class I. for the best-managed sewage farm utilising the sewage 
of not more than twenty thousand people, and another prize 
was offered in Class II. for the best-managed sewage farm 
utilising the sewage of more than twenty thousand people. 
In Class I. the following sewage farms were entered :• — 
Aldcrshot, by J. T. Blackburn. 
Bedford, by the Corporation of Bedford. 
Guisbrough, by Admiral Thomas Chaloner. 
Wrexham, by Lieut.-Col. Alfred S. Jones, V.C. 
In Class II. the following sewage farms were entered : — 
Birmingham, by the Birmingham, Tame, and Rea Dis- 
trict Drainage Board. 
Croydon, by Joseph Parrott. 
Doncaster, by R. S. Brundell. 
Reading, by the Corporation of Reading. 
Leamington, by the Earl of Warwick. 
In considering the reports on the several sewage farms 
which are appended, it must not be overlooked that the season 
of 1878-9 has probably been the most disastrous which has 
been known in the annals of British agriculture for a very long 
period, it having been one of the wettest, coldest, and latest 
seasons on record. The excess of moisture and the absence of 
sunshine, which have been so unfavourable to all agricultural 
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