New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-12-12


| Of ono Sdas mails rather less than ~ shiiinsA
BY this computation the value Of the liquid ent
least go 600 900 per annnm Tile value OF the solid ex-
crenent would be somewhat less than this OF course.
feet system that our ingenuity could devise, were
adopted for evory community OF sufficient size to come
amount which might bcsaved is of sufficient magnitude
10 make tho subject one OF the most important that we
Itmay DO objected that DIR. Tudchum's standard Of
value IL too high Some writer's place at higher figure.
others ut lower, and IL Is extremely difficult, II not m-
possible 10 make exact estimate at the same time,
the experience OF the world since agricultural o
eratons and opinions began TO be recorded shows that
human excrement and especially human urine Is or tho
utmost value as manure
lOus countries Of the world 70 sustain themselves without
S S no tbe most S s1.rs History ar
fords no example of an exception to tho rule that the
careful OF human excrement manure nsures pros
pority. and that iis waste entails destruction.
At recent meeting OF the Farmers Club OF the Ameri.
by Mr. A. b. craads IN which occurs the folio wing para.
graph: wasted excrement says LleDlg hastened the
the most calamitOus and fghtful When the coacB Of
the SeyenHed City had absorbed the webeing OF the
sardnis and Afca Not one Of these countries las re-
gained It's lost greatness and prosperity
Longer ago than twice the age OF Rome, China was
prosperous Industrious and IN many respects a cut
waited country From that day to this every particle a
human excrement has been almost relgously returned
TO the soil Yet today with about third Of the worlds
population living exclusively upon her productions she
has less AFFECT poverty than has other country In the
world except japan where the practices prevail.
1t difficult TO read history IN the short chapter that
country presents yet tho washing OF towns into
rivers and OF Into the here telling
unmistaksble tale. That myth virgin land OF mex
il was found IN the Mohawk Valley then the Genesoe
fats then tho Western Reserve OF Ohio aud the Miami
and 5cota bottoms then the wonderful praries OF Hi
nois then States bordering the Mississippi River
s pS w5S has .eed owsr them by steady steps
tho Mohawk Valley OF the disastrous effect OF nudge
sons and the endless list Of oaamtss which We rarely
hear OF save on lands of waning fertility.
by better system OF agriculture with the aid OK I'M
derdrainng sIbsoi powng cattle feeding. and rotation
OF crops, fighting the iend OF exhaustion with
neEs sos pOres for plant food which u longer
yielded spontaneously, sud. In many cases We seem TO
by rhsps hundred years and herhaps, hyo bundled
years honoo, shall have exhausted even TINS hidden
fertility Of the SOIL for there Is nothing certain than
that tho material which we take from the land ana de-
natural process And until learn To carefully save
and faithfully return 70 the soil tho rejected elements OF
our food shall continue to follow, whether apparently
or not the road which Rome has Travelled before
1t Is In consideration OF tho foregoing acts tat We are
the earth closet SO long as the human eGcrement
deSradDgy offensive, Mother American farmers nor
American clens will willingly subject themselves to the
annoyance OF doing anything get t OF
tho way By tho shortest practicable course IL there are
carry IL into rivers into the ocean, that Is all
that highest civilization asks II there arc no Sc wers
then kindly holes IN tho ground servo to remove from
sight We accustom ourselves 20 its odors and give 1t
no further thought until necessity conpes pay for
s surroptitiOus removal by night Its money value Is
of me cmoS more than Offsets for ts value
long this OF Affairs continues, cannot
pect much attention TO be given to the subject.
when the time arriyesand II will arriyethat farmers
who gladly pay tS un for Peruvian guano can procure
an equally valuable fertilizer for s16 per tun, they Will
readily offer II. and their offers will stimulate organized
companies TO turn into their own treasures the present
income OF the Peruyn Government.
The means by which this IA TO be accomplished are
within the roach OF every community. The Rev Henry
Mouos Earth Closet smpc as Il IL, and dealing only
with materials which accessible To ALL Is competent
10 compass tho entire reform which have suggested
Through its aid land write from actual experienced
that Which has been ofense in our lives need be an
Onenss longer; and the material on which, long eN
perience has demonstrated the permanent prosperity OF
nations founded may be preserved concentrated. snd
deOdorlLed without losing It's value and presented In
form in which 1t may readily become article Of com
merce which Will bear long transportation, may be- kept
indefinite time, and the best OF all concentrated fer
tikers for every crop that the farmer raises.
We have ia this paper set forth more strongly than
tho established facts OF the warrant what must
seem to all thoughtful the strongest argument on
which the OF earth closets depends. We propose In
future paper to discuss those features OF the subject
which VIII commend themselves more especially TO those
who for the questons OF health aud decency
than foe questions OF political economy.
The subject Is treated nj length in the pamphlet pub
lshed and for sale at TuE TRIBUNE Office. for IS cents