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profitable under particular crops. You won't 

 need it, if you keep the soil supplied with humus. 



Don't waste kitchen slops or any other waste 

 water. It aU has fertilizing qualities that will 

 help your garden. Even in the winter it is a 

 good plan to pour your slops on the ground, 

 choosing a different spot each day so that no 

 one place may get too wet and leave surface 

 pools. Mankind in the liunp is stupid, so stupid 

 that we drain our fertilizing matter into our 

 harbors and then dig it out again at the cost of 

 four dollars the yard. 



But you need not be so stupid as that. Even 

 some of our cities are now learning the value 

 of sewage, notably San Antonio, Texas. This 

 city, with its 85,000 inhabitants, has solved the 

 problem of what to do with its sewage, although 

 the city fathers leased the rights to a private 

 corporation, instead of providing for the city's 

 own disposal of it. This company carries the 

 sewage six miles out of town, and has built 

 five miles of canal, through which the surplus 

 sewage not used in irrigating, flows upon a 

 filter-bed where all solids are removed, and the 

 water runs into a big basin which covers about 

 1000 acres. This basin being very shallow, the 

 sun's rays reach the bottom of it, and purify 

 the water, so that, though it enters one end of 



