The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-10-07 00:00:00

TSB DILIUNIIOII 121718170 N.

The Darehesese local authorities are to all Wants
eartuarress without a drainage sobers% sad as ea
about to be held previous to sophism a
ion the following article from Use Mr* Lens
Barress refierrOg pertioularly to • B 0 proses in
Walks to the Lodes sewage will be read with
lateral—No oae knows proly the oast of carry-
ing the sewage of the Metropolis to the sea ; but it has
bass aotioateci at from 1113,000,000 to 1120,000,005 Os
the other hod, we do know the maximum cost of the
adoption of the A B 0 promo berause the Native
Gone Ooespiay have made • definite offer to purify
ail the aware on aerials terms. The wet of the
messemry works would not exceed £500.000, the
ealtimate being £400,000. Supposing the soot of the
works for the first plan to be £16,000,000, which I. •
.4140.48. .4 the of 11. works for tha
assend 1300,000. the in interest at 5 roar
emiL would be M 75,000 per paurn. Now the Native
Glow Oetany offer_zox out their presses on
the Salle Moan : per annum to be paid
fatly. yeses, and .000 for the rest ef the
el the essitoot ; and if the mow usit. Mover
13 pm ton, the below to be .lially divided
between the Oampasiy end the Board of Works. AU
She natio lose now made at Ayleeiniry is mold
at MBA ton, aad, as it is slitimaXed that
refttU toe would he made easolly out of the
London enrage, there would actually be a profit
MI MN pries Bak aesumiag that the manure
geld at only ift 10e. per ton, there would still be •
morphia of 000.500 to divide; that is to say, the reto-
ol Lando would pt £150,000 a year from the
..6. of manure to set of ageism • payment of snow
sc, pas sappapyar the lint five pen, sad £150,000
afterward& The Probebilikh thew, Is that, by
adept/ft the A It 0 proses on the terms maned, the
agarof Lowden would have to ri A 55,000
oireellide to the Natio Glow y for five
peek and attain efterwards, so *sir only
Memo far gather rid of the sewage wools be 120.006
• pew interest on the cost 011 k. works, a spa which
=nod Oboe le muck less than the sod of
the Oho pica of wry*, the sisw ss sibs
ela void be. It may he °WOO &het dises
ealk IMMO* Than let us state the utmost
ma. trepperiag OM the immure produce bad to
be ghee away. The utmost expeadflar• would
Iften be 1300,000 pins KA 000 for the first five
pomp and £150.000 plus 1134000 afterwards, a.
Semipro& with 0300.000 pm mom. pins lie unkeown
bat esettraljr very heavy cod of wackier the other
eprems. la other words, the ratepayers of London
=AI =Piet to ewe £175,000 a year for the first
lo yews, .L 105.000 • year afterwsrde budoszdtiej
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el=lt the a.., and probably, after all, having
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ft tima. Nov is lids all ; for seder see plea
Shoe would he ea seermoue waste of £111.000,000 In
• labor net only nopodaslive, but also wasteful,
while under the ether tbsr. would be only the shakier
.lllum he marks for produetive sad solar pur-
pose. India afiettalfted titillatftirs of the A 0
4E4i:siblings/IP na Ober. 'pray elleetive imp at
•Wortered. me would .1111111111 guard
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extracting the arnmoni.. For this reason we are
strongly of opinion that in any arrang.m.nts with
the Native Guano Company power should bar
by lb* Metropolitan Mwerd of Wotti, or any other
repvesentstives of the ratepayers who may be
empowered to settle the queettio, to terrninite the
cool-act at any time on
for doing to. payment of a reasonable sum
It is not by any means the ratepayers of London
alone who are inieeeeted in the qu.sti in hefore n.. It
I.• great nationsl question, ant a great agricnitural
(pail.° in a pee-olio: egage I soill.l be at alight
.'vantage to gave 200,000 ot ue.f 11 metiers
every year. Aoc irdlo to chemiet. the man ire I. not
worth a high price pa ton, on I it is nit our ol.j-iet to
advertise the Native Guano C moor ; lint bond ede
of f irmers an I gardeners have tattifie.l It the honefi-
dal soil io of the manure upo • thei- trope, and nrusy
of them buy it year after yeer in iocreasinc qoantii
At any rate as the diluted ',wage forces enormous
motel of Vaal• mange* and otter plant., it eta ids to
reaeon that the dried residuum must o ittain elements
of fertility, ant if it were produced in large quaotitieli,
it would soon find its proper level of c imtnereist aline,
if it is too high in pr.oe 4 preseut—a Point that we
do not pretend to determine. It may well be believed
that the manurial value of the foot consumed in the
naitropolle in enormously in ex.asee of the 1:500,000
which 200 000 tone at £2 101 per ton wooll atu ',int
to. How much of that manurial value is destroyed
by the effect of water cannot be told ; hut the stid
matter I. there, and own be extracted by the t B
process, as anyone 'nay se* at Aylealbury or at the
Health Echibition, where sewage is treated by
chemical. which cease the suspended .dl l. to pink,
leaving the efil tent water pure enough for ii.fl to live
in it. That such a useful process should be a
monopoly is, no doubt, to be regretted, ant this is
one of the abuses of our patent mystem. The State
ought to adopt some way of rewarting inventors lege
I Injurious to the public interest than that of giving
I them • monop ily of certain natural forms f t • long
term it year.. However, we are not now discussing
the Patent Laws. and it happens that the only affece
foal process -if extracticg the inaoure from sewage Ii
the patent of • private co-nraly. That being the
ewe, it is chil fish to refine ti confer an immense
ben- fit np la the nste; aye,. of the metropolis
especially, end the whole nail in to a smeller extent,
Islaw y because at the Fame time the sharehol lets of
the Native Goan C impany would les losnefitel.

THE PRICE OP BREAD.
To tat Editor.
rubjeot • hich I. beteg dim:m.4)l on all
band., and one which is id the utmost knoortsuce to
the poorer part of our population, I, the price of bread
at the present time. Providence has bleated the
oountry with • bountiful harvest, end the c-inreence
is 11 me Is down to between Wt. and Vlr. par sack.
It is being pretty freely asked why has not bre.ii
fallen in proportion. A good corn barve.t is Font:J.,'
of half its benefits, so far the the poor ive concerned,
when they are paying the same for their bread an they
have in years of only moderato yields. An uolue
amount of profit is Wog mad. somewhere. Farmers
an loud in their assertions that with wheat at its
present ridiculously low prios bread should be much
cheaper than it is now.—Youre,
FATllll7llrtitAll.