The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-09-09
rnL snwAcE or crrIrs.
Must IL ALWAYS be Wasted THAT Of London
sent oil To sea.

ram ne Net lcr, Inlcs.
Nearly twenty years ago it was resolved
70 provide for the metropolis Of London n sys-
ten of drainage that should be eff lent IN it.
self and that should al the same time leave the
waters Of. the Thames pure and uncOntami-
mated ptInE seventeen years, and at q cost
of more than twenty-five millions Of dollars,
the works have been H. progress and II l. only
TWO week, ago w theftahouts That their uiti-
mate completion W. announced The sewage
OF one large sect ion Of Lon on covering an area
OF ne NY one hundred and twenty square miles,
is now carr ed away in tue most perfect manner,
and provision Is made 10y which, for long time
tluuous growth OF the CITY, the drainage VIII
remain complete.
The greai value Of the ST wage Of a large city ia
fully Acknowledged. Tina, uf london. with its
dense population OF four millions, represents u
vast annual amount OF money. Yet IL is not
sewers now completed IL Is carried I'M erground
20 the mourn of the Thames and there made to
how into the German Ocean Everybody admits
that there - great loss resulting from such an
arrangement everybody n ready to tell OF the
national gain that would result II that sewage
were utll<ed upon the land hut nobody has
yet been able 20 devise "a means by which In
practce II can be done.
few years ego accompany WAS formed in Lon
don Tor utilizing IA tins way the sewage north
OF the Thames, but the idea was then "A novel
one; at any rate the puUliC had not been edu-
Gated up 10 an appreciation Of its value. aud II
Tell through fOi want of pital. In ona Of the
midland counties OF England, one OF the local
boards OF health IA 1870 took ON lease for seven
teen years a plot OF twenty eight acres o land
with the lnlent ton OF utilziua the sewage from
OF about I've thousand. The farm was a clay
soil, badly cultivated, and in0fiGiently drained.
The EXPENSES have been heavy. but still the
pronts VI the experiment are more than encOur-
aging. AZ hrst the receipts fell far short of the
expenditure. In 1870 the income was only ti035,
barely enough 10 cover the rent. But every year
mas shown "a marked Improvement, ana when
the accounts we're made out for the twelve
months ending March, 1878, the receipts were
iound TO b, S6OUi, a. against s2.yJ5 expended.
nuch "A return on "a farm Of less than thirty acres
i conclusive proof that there must be some
virtue ~ thie method Of culture.
Near bennington, In Warwickshire, a similar
experiment Lls been tried, hut there, the farm
being IN private ownership IL f. not 40 easy 10
ever, by the Earl of Warwick. TO whom the
place belongs, that the profits are very large
The Earl pays to the Town Council Of Leaning
ton, S,2J0 year for the town sewage, aud he
ms perfected Arrangements for receiving ana
distributing II over the farm, which T. 400 acres
90 extent, n occasion may require IL Is applied
70 almost every description u crops, from
cereals aud roots. 20 beans and meas. cabbape
ccrrY rhuharb, and even strawberrie-. and
VIZ ul.NurhllY favorable results. Rye grass
nlStltd with the sewage has been already cut
NY tln''t una II Is eApectcd iha' at least two
"4ultl'uhl crops VIII be secured. the root
crops are desc ibod a. simply enormous : fur
.ilua are nhthned IN perfection continuously
'iu,ousu ~. sthson, aud mangolds have pro-
!&9rthi ut note that the water which flows on
ttm,s ,Idilh rs 1uAht ana sparkling, absolutely
Tree from al fungold groWths, and quite m 10
drink Inc farm, the soil Of which - a ricb
foam with d gravel sub-sOll, has been lindrr ~
pertinent four years. VA
~ is not too much 10 say that the seware
Nmch y every wear allowed 10 how into the
EiVcrs from tins city would suffice Ia make nii
She lana In the neighbtrhnOd for miles around
shciIdlng the now barren Oats OF New Jersey
H,RnN productive. If means were taken To
chIuHe VI, the city would nnd \ ne " source OF
DO cheaper, ~''H' "oN'u