The experiment made by Mr. Hope, of Romford, to utilize
sewage promises to produce important results. He has hired the -sewage of Romford for 2600 a year, pours it in a fluid state by pipes over a farm of 121 acres, and produces root crops without parallel. During a visit paid to the farm on Saturday by a number .of scientific men, they found "the specimens for the most part of unusual size, recalling Gulliver's experiences in Brobdignag, one single potato frequently consisting of a cluster weighing a couple of pounds, and carrots attaining the dimensions of humming-tops. Mangold-wurzel had swollen to the proportions of moderate trunks of trees, standing fully two feet above the ground, and -on every side nature was arrayed in her very largest patterns." No unpleasant smell was perceptible except at the reservoir, and the profits appear to be considerable. They are, however, profits -on market-gardening, not on the cultivation of cereals or grass.
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