The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

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Sgriculture.

MlscaLLaatOra Lao HaatWAY INFORMATION.--ilay
and straw are waat up to London in exchange for mot.
In some eases &ehe, used to be thrown into the sem-
pools, which made a valuable compost, and all was
removed
in the together for
if.d.voer mbscanakasereurpteel, u;itisßlutggieetbppeliaseswbuieesa beci7aewrea:
valuable article for separate export. Market gardeners
send y lart.igteetitedjua:tihtueiesw:hodfeyga;rden produce to
Nw
-t-'h
use
and
boasted that this manure enables them to some
take three
ees
successive crops in the year off the same ground.
Large quantities of sewage are exported by the Corpo-
ration of Manchester from that town in railway-wagons
along the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Railway. There is a company that exports from
London large quantities of blood frnm the slaughter-
houses, and reduces it to a convenient state for being
applied to the laud. Who can doubt that all consu-
mers of such commodities would rejoice to find that so
valuable an article as that of privies was skilfully
intermixed with the long stable-dung, ashes, or other
suitable material? Mr. Dodd, of the City- Wharf,
lioxton, informs me that be has collected and exported
as much es four hundred tons (roan cesspools in a
week, into Kent, Essex, Herefordshire, and Bucking-
hasualiire. His charges per ton were two shillings for
the article as put on board the barges, eightpence for
freight, and sixpence for tonnage. Amongst the crops
for which it wag used he mentioned hope, onions, and
celery. lie MoilletitllLa I Waled it unmixed, and some-
times mixed with other dung, as the parties required it.
Mixed with the street sweepinga it becomes deodorised.
When nothing else is admitted luta, a cesspool used by
healthy persons fed with unadulterated food, and regu-
larly emptied, there is a little smell and not offensive.
But a place ta,upied by persons of bad habits aad
adulterated fol. and into which other things are
soianitted. he dewribed differently. He told me some
remarkable facts. illestraising the differences. He said
the sue 114,f the Thames was more offensive than what
he hail first al.-seethed. end that lie could detect a smell
hem it, which, whether lightly or wrongly, he 'Uri-
buted to the coats of the intestines being affected by
adulterated and pernicious food. He ...guidon that the
benefit of this manure continues in the land for the
crops of more than three years; • anuesh longer period
than guano. Ile described to inc the simple wanner in
which this manure is collect.' and removed for agricul-
tural purposes in some houses in Paris. He also
describe I to me the manner in which, in Belgium. the
farmer ski/. cleats straw in this pure manure in a liquid
atatr, can-yang the steeped straw in carts to the field,
anal there women follow the plough. and lay in this
steeped straw in the fuanows, to be covered over at the
return of the plough. All these matters deserve the
consideration of town and country. I may tied that
this statement. as to smell. I heard also made by a wit-
ness on his oath at a trial at Hertfonl ; who described
the smell of 'xecl night soil as plessant when eoul-
pared with • river, into which an ignorant Board at
Health (query of disease), bad turned the cesspools of a
country town. The Edenburph Renew for January, in
remarking on Dr. I:atya account of the freedom from
fever of nighmen, states also the strong opinions held
and acted on by sonic physicians of the beneficial effects
of the fumes of the night soil in certain disorders. I
had myself received similar information from • night-
man, but hesitated to state it till I met this day with
• such a confirtuation by the reviewer.--The *fora of
Me Sewers, a pamphlet by G. B. Clarke, Esq.