Sewage Farm Competition, 1879. 
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taking these facts into consideration, that the rent paid for the 
park hind is high. Ahhough the whole of the sewage farm 
is capable of being irrigated, yet, from the returns which were 
handed to us, it appears that some parts are cropped with corn 
and other produce which do not receive sewage, while some of 
the lighter portions of the land are sewaged every year. The 
farm was very clean, and in a good state of cultivation. Ex- 
cellent order was observed everywhere ; the hedges, gates, 
roads, carriers, &c., were all well kept ; and, in fact, the arrange- 
ments of the farm reflect the greatest credit upon those concerned 
in its management. Captain Fosbery informed us that the 
principle of sewage culture which guided him in laying out 
the Heathcote farm was that sewage farming should not be 
dealt with as a distinct branch of husbandry, but that, in order 
to make it successful, it must be ingrafted upon ordinary 
agriculture. 
The following returns, handed to us by Captain Fosbery, 
show the cropping of the several fields on the sewage farm 
since it was established, and also the volume of sewage and the 
number of dressings which have been applied to each field : — 
Amount of Sewage applied to different Fields. 
Januaky 1, 1872— Janl-auy 1, 1873. 
Xuraber of 
Field. 
Acreage. 
A. 
R. 
p. 
Gi 
10 
1 
34 
25 
10 
1 
17 
20 and 21 
6 
1 
25 
22 
7 
3 
6 
6 
3 
17 
65 
10 
3 
11 
54 
9 
1 
29 
67 
6 
3 
16 
27 and 28 
13 
3 
2 
50,41.45, 63 and 46 
41 
0 
0 
58 and 59 
20 
0 
15 
66 
10 
2 
25 
51 and 53 
18 
1 
14 
48 
11 
0 
36 
13 and 71 
20 
1 
22 
47 
10 
0 
32 
43 
9 
0 
4 
Ciior. 
Italian Eye-grass 
Italian Rye-grass 
Cabbage 
Market-Garden .. 
Mangold 
Italian Eye-grass 
Fallow for Beans 
Permanent Pasture 
Italian luye-grass 
Permanent Pasture 
Fallow for Wheat 
Seeds 
Mangold 
/Italian Eye-grass, 
\ AVheat .. .. 
Fallow . . . . 
Seeds 
For Grass .. 
afterj 
Number 
of 
Dressings. 
Sewage supplied to Farmers 
Sewage pumped in Twelve IMouths 
23 
26 
6 
2 
9 
27 
1 
5 
23 
3 
2 
7 
9 
4 
11 
4 
Total Amount 
of 
Sewage. 
Tons. 
92,439§ 
104,883 
18,082 
57,258 
22,1201 
111,384 
19,232J 
12,5153 
123,8321 
50,416i 
18,216t 
29,520f 
66,38U 
20,886 
33,202i 
45,095i 
16,1521 
87,3422 
927,961 
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