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Notes oil Market-gardenimj and Vine-culture 
the new farm buildings, in the erection of cottages, and in the 
adaptation of the old buildings to the present requirements of 
the farm. 
Sanitary. — Sixtj-three persons live on the farm, including 
thirtj-two children. Twentj-five others are engaged on the 
farm who do not reside on it. 
Mr. W. W. Champion, the farm manager, reported that one 
child died at the age of five weeks, " wasting away from the 
birth." Measles and whooping-cough appeared on the farm 
last winter and spring. These diseases had been " prevalent 
in Reading and its neighbourhood." No adults living or 
working on the farm have died, and, "judging from the ex- 
perience of the past, sewage irrigation does not seem prejudicial 
to health, no children (v/ho would be the first to suffer) can be 
more bright and healthy ; the men who attend to the irrigation 
(one of whom has been walking in the sewage and cleaning out 
the carriers for more than four years) are perfectly healthy, 
proving that by a wise provision of nature the earth and vegeta- 
tion seize hold of and convert to plant-food matters injurious to 
health." 
II. — Notes on Market- Gardening and Vine-Culture in the North- 
icest of France. By H. M. Jenkins, F.G.S., Secretary of 
the Society, and Editor of the ' Journal.' 
Some of the statements in this paper will appear to many 
persons so remarkable that it is desirable to preface them with 
a few words of explanation. In the first place, it should be 
stated that my notes were taken in 1878 ; and although the 
wonderful intercalation and succession of market-garden crops 
which I shall indicate were taken successfully in that year, I 
cannot speak as to the results obtained by means of the different 
systems under the continued deluges of rain which the French 
agriculturists as well as ourselves experienced throughout 1879. 
I know, however, from correspondence, that the past year has been 
very disastrous to the poorer gardeners in the Amiens district. 
What France has suffered from the unseasonable and inclement 
succession of seasons which characterised last year could only 
be ascertained by another investigation ; and that the recently 
appointed Royal Commission on Agriculture have provided for. 
It has seemed to me, however, that these notes, which re- 
present the operations and results of ordinary seasons, might be 
usefully published at a time when everyone is discussing the 
great questions which bad harvests and the effects of foreign 
competition have forced upon all classes connected with the 
