UTILISING SEWAGE.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 799, 8 April 1871, Page 2

UTILISING SEWAGE.

Mr Mechi records in the " Times," for the information of towns and cities which have not yet utilised their sewage, the most successful and perfect instance he has hitherto seen. The farm of Mr W.Hope, at Bornchurch, three and a half miles from Romford, Essex, receives

the whole of the available sewage of that town, containing about 8000 inhabitants. The farm consists of 121 acres of light and poor gravelly soil, which had previously ruined several tenants, and the land has been so ar« ranged that, while the flow of the sewago is sufficiently applied, there is no semiring but an easy and gradual distribution over every portion of the land. All the sewage is pbsorbed by the soil, and passes through it to the drains, issuing from them as clear as any pump water. Fonnely three men and two buys" were employed on the farm j now the number has been increased to 40 with 16 horse* The crops are enormous and frequent, and the minimum value of £2O per acre, and, as many are perfected in from two to three months, the total value is very considerable. Thus within twelvemonth! a wretchedly poor farm has been con verted into a most luxuriant garden, its fertility ever increasing, multiplying food and the employment of labour con« currently, and extracting a money value from that which is now. in too DiaoJ cases, poisoning our streams.