Sewage Farm Competition, 1879. 
5 
In Class II., for farms utilising the sewage of more than 
20,000 people, we adjudicate the prize to the Earl of Warwick 
for the Leamington Sewage Farm, managed, under the direc- 
tion of Captain Fosbery, the Earl of Warwick's agent, by 
Mr. Tough, the bailiff. We are, however, strongly of opinion 
that a second prize should be given in this class, which, if 
given, we award to Mr. R. S. Brundell, in connection with the 
Sevv^age Farm of Doncaster, which is an admirable example of 
thrifty management, and shows how sewage can be applied to 
general farming. We also highly commend the Sewage Farm 
of the Birmingham, Tame, and Rea District Drainage Board, 
managed by Mr. James Anscombe. 
We should add that the Prize Farm, and the second farm in 
Class II., possess a much higher order of merit than the Prize 
Farms in Class I. We consider that it would be an invidious 
position for the Sewage Farm at Doncaster to be placed in not 
to receive a prize, having regard to the fact that its merits con- 
siderably exceed those of the Prize Farms in Class I. ; therefore 
we recommend the Council of the Royal Agricultural Society to 
take this matter into their consideration, with a view to giving 
a second prize in Class II.* 
Name of Fann. 
Aldershot ,. 
Bedford .. 
Birmingham 
Croydoa . . 
Doncaster .. 
Guisbrough 
Leamington 
Eeading .. 
Wrexham .. 
Totals .. 
Number of 
Years in 
Operation. 
15 
11 
12 
18 
6 
9 
8 
4 
10 
93 
Persons em- 
ployed or 
living on 
Farm. 
25 
28 
28 
94 
44 
8 
46 
88t 
19 
380 
Children 
living on 
Farm. 
12 
6 
9 
30 
22 
4 
14 
32 
137 
Number 
of Deatlis 
occurring. 
0 
0 
2t 
5§ 
0 
0 
2 
1 
0 
10 
With respect to the sanitary aspect of sewage-farming, the 
above table will show the several particulars which have been 
collected in reference to the farms during the period they have 
been in operation, the number of persons either living or working 
on the farms, the number of children residing on the farms, and 
* The Council decided, at their meeting in February, to give a Special Prize 
of 25L to Mr. R. S. Brundell in connection with the Doncaster Sewage Farm. 
t These figures do not include the men engaged in laying out additional land 
for sewage purposes. 
X These deaths occurred in connection with sewage tanks and not sewage farm. 
§ These deaths have occurred within the last ten years. 
