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we were informed, was principally due to the depression in the 
iron trade in the district, in consequence of which there had 
been by no means so great a demand as previously for agri- 
cultural produce of the character grown on this farm. 
We have carefully examined the accounts of the farm for 1878, 
which are as follows : — 
GUISBEOUGH SEWAGE FA EM. 
Statement of Accounts for Yeak ending 31st Decembee, 1878. 
Income. 
£ s. d. 
le of Eye-grass • 153 4 6 
Khubarb 15 1 6 
or valuation, Swedes andl gQ g 
Turnips / 
,, Mangolds 47 0 9 
,, Carrots 16 0 10 
Hay .. 10 0 0 
£272 2 0 
EXPENDITUKE. 
£ s. d. 
Rent 37 10 6 
Wages 90 5 8 
Team-work 37 IG 0 
Seeds 7 14 7 
Manure 1010 0 
Eates 6 0 0 
Sewage 5 0 0 
Balance-profit 77 5 9 
£272 2 0 
The valuation of stock-in-hand every year is included in the 
receipts for each crop. The accounts of the undertaking are 
well kept and regularly audited. From the item of profit, 
which appears in these accounts for 1878, the interest upon 
capital has not been deducted as in the table of the balance of 
profit before referred to, so as to assimilate these accounts with 
the accounts of other farms in which no interest is charged. 
With reference to the disposal of the produce, it should be ob- 
served that no crop is fed off on the land, and no stock is kept 
upon the farm. A large portion of the produce grown is sold to 
the estate at a rate somewhat less than that at which it is sold 
to the general public. 
In winter the sewage is applied to fallow land. During the past 
winter (1878-9) five acres of fallow land were used for the recep- 
tion of the sewage, the sewage flowing on to 2 J acres for one week, 
and being then diverted on to the other 2\ acres. After flowing 
on to this 2^ acres it was diverted back again, and so on through- 
out the whole of the winter, so that the sewage of over 1000 
persons per acre was treated for four months of the year on 
5 acres of land. It is intended, and the works were in pro- 
gress, to extend one of the leading carriers lower down the 
valley, over which the sewage is intended to be distributed in 
time of storm, and in the winter on the rough grass-land in this 
part of the valley. 
