IRRIGATION WITH HOUSEHOLD WASTE WATER.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 146, 19 June 1908, Page 7

IRRIGATION WITH HOUSEHOLD WASTE WATER.

The disposal of household waste water j is often a problem in country and in sub-1 urban households, where the latter are I not connected with any system of drain-! j age, and the experience of Mr. H. Sel-' i ku k, of KJlara. New South Wales, as I I given in the "Agricultural Gazette," is ! worth noting: —"My garden is situated : ' jour. gentle slope, the house being on the \ ! highest point, with the land falling away • ' l is. front, and tbe question of how best j '. j -co dispose of refuse water from kitchen,: .laundry, and bathroom cropped, up. As I :i a temporary expedient it was carried by j , j pipes into vacant land, where it was con- . i sa—.ed by a young growth of native vege- ■ I tation. Subsequently, the necessity arisj in" for a better arrangement, two lines •! of 4-inch drain pipes were carried down , 1' the slope, one connecting with the bath--11 room, and the other with kitchen and • laundry; these were so graded as to disf I charge' on the surface at suitable points •in the garden. To prevent any one 1 spot becoming sodden and probably 3 offensive, the discharge was- directed by 1 means of some lengths of ordinary gal- ? vanised guttering first to one point, then = to others as desired, and by running " furrows across the slope with a Planet 1 Junior Hand Cultivator, the water was c still further distributed, resulting in a simple, inexpensive, and thoroughly effective system of irrigation and manuring As a practical result I may give •, two instances. Potatoes were planted r under precisely similar conditions of cut i- Nation on opposite sides of the gara den Bed No. 1 could not. he irrigated, i- but bed No. 2 had the water run between •o Se rows several times during the grow>f ml season. The crop from No. 1 was ° ataoTa failure, giving little but ir Ses, while No. 2 gave a full, even P cron of arge tubers of extra fine quality. n iv the second instance two plum trees ie known as October Purple « reeled treatment to the potate receiveu nQ wate a small Jf toes ' „,t!d averaging about ljoz. per erpp.resulted aye „ » - fruit; in .the i« > rf {ru;t was >n WaS ri ed ! S-e proportion of which ran "Zz per bS, while *«!* * re6s of otte? - S ' Ses benefited in like degree.