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Irrigation and Drainage 



command, but the superintendent informed me that 

 during the past twenty years the average price per 

 acre for the whole estate had been $102.20. Yet 

 this grass is cut by the purchasers and hauled three 



Fig. 47. Distribution of sewage on Craigentinny meadows, Edinburgh, 

 Scotland, just after cutting grass. 



to four miles day by day to feed their cows, stabled 

 and milked in the crowded business portions of 

 the city. 



When it is further stated that much of the land 

 upon which this grass is now grown, and has been 

 continuously grown for nearly a century without 

 rotation, was originally a waste sandy sea beach, it 

 will be the better appreciated how valuable is such 

 sewage water for the purposes of irrigation. 



Regarding the healthfulness of milk produced from grass 

 grown under sewage irrigation, statements like the following 

 are repeatedly being made : "The only question is, whether 

 there may not remain adhering to grass which has been bathed 



