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Report of the Judges on the 
adapted for sewage purposes. The worst feature, however, of 
this farm is its liability to be flooded. No less than 350 acres 
are liable to be flooded ; and on the two occasions of our 
inspection we found large portions under water, viz., on the 
12th of February, and the 2i)th of May, 1879. We have since 
been informed that floods of the character experienced last year 
(1879) are very rare, and only occur at long intervals. The 
sewaged land has been under-drained in some parts 4 feet 
deep, the drains being 30 feet apart, but over the greater 
portion the drains are 60 feet apart, though some of the land 
has been drained as closely as 15 feet apart. An area used 
for filtration was in a completely water-logged condition, the 
land having been very much overdone with sewage. Most of 
the laud also appeared to have had too much sewage. The por- 
tion under irrigation was fairly cultivated and decently clean, 
considering the quantity of sewage it has to receive. The 
volume of sewage passed on to the farm varies from a minimum 
of 500,000 gallons to a maximum of 800,000 gallons per day. 
It is only passed on to the farm between the hours of 6.30 A.M. 
and 5.30 P.M. every day ; and in the night-time, or at such other 
times as it is not passed on to the farm, the sewage accumulates 
in two receiving tanks at the sewage pumping-station and in the 
outfall sewer at Reading. 
The amount of capital expended in preparing the 76 a. 10 p. 
of land for irrigation has been as follows : — 
£ s. d. 
Pipe-carriers .. 557 13 1 
Distributing Boxes 85 1 6 
Culverts over Stream 35 9 U 
Preparation of Land £1239 19 2 
Hedge-grubbing 176 2 0 
Filling up Old Ditch 20 4 3J 
Cleansing out New Ditches .. .. 9 14 4^ 
1445 19 10 
Drainage of Land 511 15 1 
Forming Roads 284 6 2 
Diversion of Strcnm 37 2 10 
Depreciation of Plant used on Works 68 9 41 
£3025 17 7J 
The expenditure actually incurred includes the amount spent 
on 2 acres which were prepared for sewage, but are now occupied 
as the site of the new farm buildings. 
The following accounts give the Profit and Loss on this farm 
during the last three years : — 
