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poses is really a very simple matter, and attended 

 with very little trouble. I would select a high-lying, 

 dry piece of ground at a convenient distance from 

 the village or town, and have three pits dug, each 

 of sufficient dimensions to contain double the 

 estimated amount of human refuse and sweepings 

 that could be collected during a year. All the 

 refuse of the village nightsoil, house-sweepings, 

 street-scrapings, garbage, ashes of fuel (which, con- 

 sisting mostly of dried cow-dung, is a valuable 

 straw-producer) in short, refuse of all kinds 

 should be thrown into these pits, and a layer of dry 

 earth put over so as to cover each day's collection. A 

 simple, inexpensive shed erected over the pits would 

 enable this disposal being continued during the 

 monsoons. When a pit is full, it should be covered 

 with a layer of earth six inches thick ; and the 

 refuse should then be allowed to remain there 

 a whole year in order that it be totally decom- 

 posed, after which it will be available for use, 

 having the appearance of black mould ; there will 

 be nothing left which could be repugnant even to 

 the most sensitive nerves. 



There can be no doubt that the ryots would but 

 only too gladly avail themselves of this manure, 

 and they should be allowed to carry away as much 

 as they liked, in exchange for an equal quantity of 

 earth. After a couple of years a trifling charge could 

 be made upon each basket, the revenue thus derived 



