On the application of sewage in agriculture / by E. Haughton.

  • Haughton, E. (Edward)
Date:
[1859]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the application of sewage in agriculture / by E. Haughton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    rooms, and an infinite convenience to the public* The manure obtained from them will be equal to the best guano, without having a more dis- agreeable odour, and the price obtained for it ought to leave a large margin for profit. There is only one principle which would appear ne- cessary to insist on, in order to place the art of tillage on a sound foun- dation, viz., that the elements abstracted from the soil by the growth of com and green crops, and the raising of cattle, must be restored to it in the shape of manure. And common sense must, therefore, tell us that the effect of individual manures must be judged of by the condition in wJdcJi they leave the fields At jDresent the large proprietor sends his grain and flesh for sale to the great centi'es of consumption, and accord- ingly loses the conditions for their reproduction. This is the natural cause of the impoverishment cf lands by cultivation. There is no other; and this will sufficiently account for the present condition of those coun- tries whose wealth was devoured by the great metropolis of the ancient world, and the future condition of many, by which our great cities are now supplied, and whose sewers cast into the ocean a species of wealth which neither art nor science can restore when once suffered to run to waste. * In order to render this system suitable for tlie habitations of the rich, sand or saw- dust may be used to prevent any black dust arising from the wood or peat-charcoal, which might be scattered by a simple mechanical contrivance, connected with the opening or shutting of a door, so as to be in every way superior to the present arrangement.