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The lime used during 1908 for softening amounted to three 

 hundred and twenty-six tons. A huge mass of putty-like substance 

 is formed by the residuum or sludge resulting from the softening of 

 the water, and this amounts to about one thousand two hundred 

 tons per annum. The only use at present found for it is as a 

 fertilizer for farm land, and the company give permission to farmers 

 to remove as much as they require, free of charge, in order to 

 reduce the ever increasing stock. 



