, 1874-07-11

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He is the we'll known inventor of the
Earth Closet system, for disposing Of hui
man excrement, and for converting what
has been a nuisance and chief source of
disease ia town, into a valuable manure,
capable of creating a revenue by its sale,
equal to defray any local taxation. The
Importance of his system if entirely car
ried out, must be very apparent to any
intelligent mind.
His estimate of Ell for every individual
as the market value of the manure so
made, is no doubt perfectly correct, if all
of his recommendations. as to the other
refuse of houses, should be adopted, but if
we take it at only half, or los. per head,
it is sufficiently startling to stimulate our
Sanitary Board, or indeed individuals, to
bestir themselves, to secure so much
wealth, while they remove a chief source
Of disease. If all the night soil Of our
city were collected, and other house re-
fuse Of the town, it would amount to
100000, (now wiItully and even carefully
thrown into the ocean,, and may be made
available to agriculture, and would realise
this sun 10 the City, and greatly assist
our Planters in tertilizing their lands, now
allowed by all to be exhausted from long
over-cropping, and as manure is SO essen
tial and is the chief, if not the only agent
they can employ to secure good crops
with economy, 100000 laid out by them
on manure, would increase the crop to
which it is applied fourfold we are wont
to cry out at our short crops and the low
prices of sugar, and yet are negligent and
wasteful of such a source Of fertility and
wealth for all good experienced Planters
are aware, that our success in planting
depends not so much on weather as
manure !; good crops are only a question
of dung enough water indeed we must
have, and it much influences our success
but we generally have rain enough to raise
paying crops, if our lands are fertile enough
and we adhere to all the known rules for
rotation of crops and fallowins'
Mr.. Moule has made some invaluable
remarks on the necessary assimilation of
manure by plants, in the same manner as
animals digest and assimilate their food,
the earth producing the same process for
plants, as the stomach and its juices pro-
duce for animals; and we may draw a
great deal of information from his work on
the manner manure is prepared by the
soil for it's assimilation, and probably as
he argues, it is quality or what We call
digested manure that is required more
than quantity, and a perfect knowledge
Of the process, by which the soil prepares
manure to a state for plants to as8imilate,
is essential for our understanding, one of
the chief things, to be attended to in
agriculture, and fully appreciate the
value of his system.
I cannot conclude better than by quot
ing Mr.. Moule's last sentence allow me
to add a word with reference to national
wealth. If, as it may be, such an amount
of valuable manure can be produced from
town villages, and in addition to this, farm
yard manure can he made of nearly equal
value, and at the same time lessened in
bulk, then within a few years, both the
produce Of our fields and the AUe stock of the
country may with Gods blessing be doubled"
We may not at first be able to carry out
all Mr.. Moulo's plans for collecting all
house refuse, but think it quite possible
for collections of human excrement to be
made somewhere just out of our city, and
covered with earth. Earth too NAV be