MODERN METHODS OF STREET CLEANING 



the purpose of utilizing the city refuse was as follows: 

 The fields were set out in rectangular shape, 



Method of 



utilizing the each plot containing about 8 acres, the sides 

 measuring 200 yards in length. They were 

 then subdivided into about four portions, 200 yards long 

 and 50 yards wide by drains about 4 feet deep at a cost 

 of about 25 cents per rod or $18.75 an acre. Each 

 2-acre lot was then drained across, 4 yards apart, at a 

 cost of about $1.12 per 100 yards or $13.75 per acre. 

 After the land had been drained it was spaded 8 inches 

 deep at a cost of about $9.68 per acre. 



Heavy root and grain crops have been raised upon 

 this land. About sixty acres are used for a nursery 

 upon which shrubs are grown for the Manchester parks. 

 It is said that the golden elder,, rhododendron, privet, 

 and poplar are grown there in perfection. For the 

 rest, nurserymen and market gardeners occupy a con- 

 siderable area and grow shrubs and vegetables on an 

 extensive scale. 



There are nearly twelve miles of light railway upon 

 the estate and more than that length of good roads, 

 all constructed by the street cleaning department. 

 The roads and the ballasting on the railroads are made 

 of rough refuse from the city. 



The manure is sent chiefly by the Manchester Ship 

 Canal from the wharves of the street cleaning depart- 

 ment to Carrington, where by means of a steam crane 

 it can be unloaded, at the rate of fifty tons per hour, 

 and hoisted to the light railway which carries it to its 

 final destination. 



The estate does not pay full interest upon the 

 money expended in the purchase and reclamation of 

 the property, but every year the deficit is reduced 



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