The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-02-04 00:00:00

HOW TO FEED THE PEOPLE.

Yews after the triumph of Tree Trade. when wheat
hes been brought down to such a price that farmers
declare It warmly pays to grow, it seems almost
sestososery to recur to the great object named atom
Yet, so pressing is the dietrese is fibelleld, la the
strike districts. and is others wiser, p many is
mospast, that we need no fames for directing attic-
tionlis the ideas re-ventilated by the It.. H. Mauls,
ier about a soon of years to our knowledge, has
hese Miming hard against national mete in riso or
111/0 Muhl ways. Mr. Moab mom to us to proposed
the breed principle that—let the poor sees have his bit
of lead, and thou, with a fair amount of etreagth sod
bideotry, he can And In his little hoses .
required to make it fertile. Mr. Moakts se=
I forthwith to give those little but nuaearoas directiows
which are to reecel
so: one head in providing ample
manure for the and on the other heed In Imp-
lag the home and neat. The wisest man said
ages ago—" There Is nothing new under the sad
It is worth noting that, before Mr. Mara*
seneible William Clobbett laid vs the sum pried*
is words remarkably delicate for toe who used week
Mau= speech. Not less because the ides least
m one, does Mr. Mock deserve our theeks
far panisteacy. In fact, we believe he himselfirtte
the priority of invention of one of the ideas to
bat long " "le needed before the

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if the ges=b4publioYis imbued therewith The
difficulty of getting slips of land in tows. has proved
almost so krupereble bur to the full benefit being
derivable from Mr. Mottle • pleas ; but where the doges
or twenty perches are available, the moldiest is fool-
ishly wasteful if he adopt the dirty, messy, and thrif thee
water-aarr age system. We may claim to speak with
some authority,
_having found four or fin perches of
laid as Bideford, North Devon, made very Intl*
end the cleansing labour much rednoed, though three
adults and two children lived in the adjoining home.
At Upwey about five and a half perches were found
sufficket to receive all the mime from a little fatally
of Mum ; it Channinater ewes perches were semi%
and the ground became so fertile that it easily bare
lims crops in two years. But these rural experhmeale
were surpa red by our trial at Weymouth, where we
may had On. parch of ground per Individual, sad yet
the cleansing sufficed without any help from the WWI
drainage, except to awry away the water used for
wishing. Welters no doubt that the last exqemsat
would not have continued successful very , the
quantity of ground being too email, although was
eery fertile during our term. FT3DI sinoh observe- I
lion we should be Inclined to plane the proportion of
land required at about three or four perches per
average Individual, or, putting it roughly on a broad
sink, it about 10 wee per 1000.Uveat temporary
successes may have bees attained with a far smaller
proportioe of land; but we are dimmed to Wok that
where the refuse is insufficient electually to manure
• wider area. it would be far the wiser plan to coollue
It to • portion of the farm or garden, heaving the other
to be manured and cropped in the orthodox way for •
few y.an, after which the town or boon refuse
should be pawed on it, and that forme* dealt with
by town refuse Mould have • change by Wag
manured by farmyard and artilkiele. While direct-
ing attention to Mr. Mode's plena for the benefit of
the poor, no one will forget the mot-mom alarms
expended on whet has be... called the Utilisation of
the flowage of Towns. Sometimes sewage fards
have been quickly diaceedited, owing to the
presence of tenacious soil for which water-carried
ranee is quite unfit., and at others the profit
has dwindled, sad we believe greatly because
there was no milkiest means of providing 0, a claw,
ef manures. Mr. Moak we bewe, dhbellevee in the
water system altogether ; but we ooniumed to him the
query whether his earth-fructifying Idea mai not be
esied to fer is to embrace irrigation end filtration
where houses are closely packed, and the adjoining
land is porous, leering his dry spite= for clayey soils
for which it seems on admirably suited. The lateat
derelopenent of Mr. Motile'. tum-all.to-sccornit Aims
seems to be his propo-al to supply rile: to plait..
insoluble se silicio acid is under most ordinary out.
dittoes we must not forget the dine dying power of
tin alkalise potash and soda when the latter are In
excess, nor ought we too hastily to conclude that we
know every about the assimilative power of
pleat-roots. Still it appears more likely that sand,
ground glam, and other 'Wok powders, are more
likely to be of service mechanically when sided to
strong clay soils, than that they should, on light and
p irous sods, ae able to addition .lly slam the 'trawl°,
wheat. Hr. Mottle has, however, &voted so much
a mution to this, and is so Practically aoqueinted
with the difficulties and obj•ctions, that we rath-r
defer to his opinion. " Ebe Sustenance of the
Labourer" is also dealt with by the ffinker this week,
which recommends the growth of bosna, to be eaten
when young as a main substitute for wheat.. bread.
Bet broad been. must be boiled, and they require
mine mrdening skill to bring them in eo earl, as to be
dellegUy flavoured and to eeoape the attaaks of the
Meek sphis. Bran with regard to broad been., the
Inset we ever grew were manured on Mr. Moule's
rhßut we more incline Weaned of • supply food
. people from pmemi gardening d k Monk and
William Cobbett ossebined.