The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-26
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How much longer he could gabble on we
cannot say, SO we stop him with the expected
shilling and depart. This little visit has, we
think, settled q few points. A sewage farm
Is not n nuisance. Sensitive lovers roam over
its water-fed meadows, and gentlemen.
villas stand next door. The crops arc luxu.
RANT, thrifty, and healthy. In drought
the farm may be independent of the rainfall.
We have seen how easily the sewage Is
spread, one man spreading five acres in day.
NO horses, teams, or manure cartlge Is re-
quired, and beyond the market horses no
stock Is kept on this farm. The expense OF
carriers and gates is not great, and avery
small force can manage large place.
The Barking farm, carried on by the Me-
tropolis Sewage and Essex Reclamation
Company, is a fiat, uninteresting, sandy
plain, to which the sewage must all he
pumped after clearing by allowing it to set
tie in great tanks. Onr visit to the place
show the carriers made of rolled iron
mounted on tall woodenleg and distributed
to the fields in wooden movable troughs laid
on the ground. The water-men spread it
precisely as we saw at Croydon, by damming
the shallow bitches that run through the soil
and causing them to overflow at intervals.
The soil is thrown up into lands" to aid
the flow Of the water, and everything is car
ried Oh quickly and easily. As at Croydon,
no cattle or teams are kept, and the produce
is sold ON the farm. A dozen men carry on
the whole establishment, covering four hun
dred acres. Here are some Of the results:
100000 tons of sewage were spread in one
year over tifty-siX acres of Italian rye grass,
giving return Of $500 tons of grass, OF
about lorty-five tons per acre. To under
stand this, it must be known that this
Italian rye grass is cut and weighed
green, and. sold to mikmen for soil
ing cattle. 1t is q rich, juicy grass,
much reislled by cows, to the great advan.
tage Of their milk. 1t is cut every few weeks
Not all the sewage was used, rs that spread
IN the winter was more or less wasted.
Here are Il few smaller experiments as set
forth in the company's reports: Half an acre
Of suaar-beet, flooded twice with sewage.
yielded eleven tons of roots. Half an acre
Of red cabbage, flooded three times, sold ut
London prices for EDS per acre. \ plot of
rye grass Of three acres, down i'm August,
pioouSSa tHC iiCNb sulliiltl IuOlc ILuli SlAtS
tons of grass to the acre. 1t was flowed and
sowed to mangolds the following April, and
light sprinklng of sewage was given to
start the plants. Two tloodings were given,
one in May and one in August, and the crop
turned ont forty tons to the acre. We might
give many extracts from the reports Of dit
(erent English sewage farms, but space for
bids, and they are all alike.
In conclusion. we have these facts Sewage
is a powerful manure for certain crops. 1t
is best adapted to those frail crops that must
be grown near cities. They are in the order
Of their valuc-grass, cabbage, lettuce, po-
tatoes, Strawberries, and some few root
crops. Wheat and the like are not fitted for
it. For squlShes cucumbcrs, and corn, ii
would no doubt be very valuable. We cam
not speak with certainty, because those crops
do not grow out of doors in England, and
only in that country has sewage farming
been tried. When we consider our poor
soils, and hot. dry summers, We cannot fail
to see that sewage farming can be, and i'll
time will be, q large business. Let the city
lay the pipes, and We have no doubt plenty
of farmers will he found ready and willing
to pay Que ortwo cents q ton for what is now
utterly thrown away.
just at the Elst minute some doubtful
minded reader Tugs in that dreadful question
"Will it pay" 1t does pay in England,
and can lie made to pay here. We cannot
say that it does pay, for it has never been
tricd.-Boston Advertiser.