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for a second year on the sewaged land, and they are found to 
pay well by being kept for only one year. 
Pigs. — There were aljout forty-five pigs of the Berkshire 
and the large white breeds on the farm. They are fed upon 
unsaleable vegetables, steamed with sharps and pea-meal. They 
are principally sold as porkers, at prices varying from 10s. to lis. 
per score. Eight pigs were being fed for bacon. 
Horses. — There are nine working horses kept on the farm, and 
also two two-year-old colts, two one-year-old colts, and a foal. 
The horses are partly used on the outlet works in addition to 
the ordinary farm-work. 
Sanitarg. — Eighteen persons reside on the farm, including nine 
children, and ten others work on it. 
Mr. J. Anscombe, the manager, Avrites : — " There are three 
cottages on the farm. These were erected three years back. 
There are families at each house, and, as far as I am aware, no 
doctor has been on the place. 
" No children or persons resident on the farm have died. 
" None of the men employed from the commencement of the 
farm have died ; but two of the men who had previously been 
engaged on the borough sewers, and were transferred therefrom 
to the tanks in 1858 and 1859, have ; but they Avere men 
over 60 years of age." Mr. Anscombe adds : " The men, as a 
rule, are very healthy, also the inhabitants of the adjoining 
neighbourhood." 
William S. Till, Esq., C.E„ the borough engineer, writes, 
9th August, 1879 : " I have to inform you that I have been con- 
nected with the Saltley Sewage Works and Farm since their 
commencement, and can say of my own knowledge that there 
has not been any epidemic during the whole period ; in fact, I 
have repeatedly remarked the healthiness of the men employed 
thereat." 
Class 2. — Croydon Sewage Farm at Beddington. 
At Croydon, sewage irrigation as a mode of purifying sewage 
has been practised for a longer period than in any other town 
in this country. The amount of land formerly used, however, 
was of small extent, consisting of grass-land which was unpre- 
pared for the reception of the sewage. In the year 1857 the 
sewage of Croydon proper was applied to but 15 acres of land. 
It was not until the year 1860 that a large portion of the pre- 
sent farm was taken on lease by the Croydon Local Board from 
various owners, and was let to Mr. John Marriage for a term of 
eleven years. At the end of the year 1860 this farm was so far 
completed that 100 acres of it were under irrigation. The total 
