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Report of the Judges on the 
It will be seen from the foregoing accounts for the three years 
ending 31st Dec, 1876, 1877, and 1878 (pp. 39-41), that each 
year, in addition to paying 450Z. for the sewage, there has been 
a profit upon this farm. The profit, however, of 2026Z. 45. 3^rf. 
in the three years would not pay more than 4*4 per cent, per 
annum upon the capital which has been invested. The artificial 
manure charged in the accounts consists of soot for the wheat 
crop and bones and salt for the permanent grass-land. 
The cropping for 1879 was as follows : — 
Italian Eye-grass .. 
. 49 
R. 
0 
r. 
37 
Brought forward ,. 
.. 201 
B. 
0 
p. 
33 
IG 
2 
23 
G 
0 
0 
. 86 
2 
14 
18 
2 
0 
4 
0 
0 
6 
3 
17 
Oats 
, 18 
0 
5 
45 
2 
0 
, 23 
o 
'J 
34 
23 
3 
24 
2 
3 
0 
Wheat 
68 
2 
35 
0 
2 
0 
Carried forward 
.. 201 
0 
oo 
371 
0 
38 
Bye-grass. — Tliis crop is grown both for sale and home consumption. It 
is not allowed to stand longer than two years, and about 25 acres are sown 
every year, — usually in the autumn at the rate of three bushels of seed 
per acre. A crop sown in September 1877 was cut eight times in 1878 and 
twice in 1879, and then ploughed up ; the land was pressed, sewagcd, and 
sown on the flat broadcast on the 15th June, 1879, with gi-een-top turnips 
and swedes, which looked well and promising at the time of oHr visit in 
August. In 1878 the cutting of rye-grass commenced on the 2nd February. 
In 1879 it commenced on the 7th April, having been sown in September 1878. 
The first cutting yielded 4 tons per acre of green grass ; the second, on the 
4th June, yielded 16 tons of grass per acre ; the third cutting on the 8th July, 
14 tons of grass per acre ; fourth cutting on the 14th August, 8 tons, fifth 
cutting on the 12th September, 6 tons, sixth cutting on the 6th October, 5 tons, 
seventh cutting in November, 2 tons per acre. A field of rj'e-grass was seeded 
as an experiment with 10 lbs. per acre of trifolium, but it did not answer. 
Eye-grass is occasionally made into hay, but when this is the case it is carted 
ou'to the meadows to finish the drying process. This crop receives enormous 
dressings of sewage during the period of its growth, as will be seen on 
reference to the tables showing the quantities of sewage that have been 
applied to the land. 
Mangolds. — This is a crop largely grown on this farm. It is drilled on the 
flat, the drills being 26 inches distant, and the plants are hoed out to 
10 inches' distance in the rows. Sewage is not applied to the crop until the 
plants begin to bulb. They are then irrigated. This crop in 1878 received 
21 dressings of sewage while under cultivation, or 8265 tons of sewage per 
acre, equivalent to an irrigating depth of 81"8 inches of water in addition to 
the rainfall. The mangolds of 1878, when examined in the spring of 1879, 
we found to be sound and good, but not equal in weight and bulk to those 
grown on the Eeading sewage farm. One field of mangolds was poor and 
stunted, but on the higher and light land they were a capital crop, and in 
all cases were clean, and the plants regular but late. 
Cabbage. — Ordinary cabbages for market are planted on the level in rows 
22 inches distant, and the plants are 17 inches apart in the rows. Savoys 
