TABLE VI.-Breton's Sewage-Farm.

Summary of Crops gathered from March 25, 1874, to March 24, 1875, showing the quantity of each kind of Produce and Nitrogen contained therein.

* This acreage of Italian rye-grass includes not only the 13.95 acres of plots A and N (marked * in Table V.), on which the regular crops for the year's use were grown, but also the 12-16 acres of plots E and H (see Table V.), which were sown according to the usual practice for the following year's use, and from which only a first light cutting was taken.

TABLE VII.-Breton's Sewage-Farm.

Statement of Land in crop and Land lying fallow on March 24, 1875.

Fifth Note on the Dry Earth System.

Dr. Gilbert has, in continuation of the series of results recorded in former Reports, furnished the Committee with the determination of the nitrogen (by the soda-lime process) in soil which has now passed through a Moule's earth-closet six times. The results of the series are as follows:

The increase in the percentage of nitrogen (determinable by the soda-lime method) was therefore, by each use, as follows:

The gain of nitrogen so indicated was therefore greater by the ixth than by any previous use of the soil since the first and second. The average gain was, however, only 0.11 per cent. by each use.

As last year, so again this, Dr. Russell has determined the amount of nitrogen existing as nitrates in the soil. Last year, after the soil had been passed through the closet five times, the amount of nitrogen as nitrates was found to be 0-20 per cent. on the soil calculated as fully dried; and now, after passing through six times, it is found to be 0.254.

The additional results now recorded do not in any way disturb the conclusions previously arrived at by the Committee as to the value of the manure obtained from an earth-closet. For this, and for their opinion of the system in its other aspects, they would refer to their former Reports (III. pp. 187 & 188, IV. p. 143, V. pp. 413 & 439, VI. pp. 213 & 214).

Report of the Committee, consisting of Major WILSON, R.E., and Mr. RAVENSTEIN, appointed for the purpose of furthering the Palestine Explorations.

THE sum of £100, granted at the last Meeting of the British Association for the purpose of furthering the Palestine Explorations, was paid over by Major Wilson to the Palestine Exploration Fund, with a request that the wishes of 1875.

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