REFUSE INTO COMPOST
Sir, —I am indebted to the late Mr Rhodes, of Wanganui, for some valuable information about the disposal of kitchen refuse, wood, coal and coke ashes. He was a noted authority on gardening. Raw ashes are fatal to plants, but are valuable mineral food after being leached in the compost heap, which I use for the garden and topdressing of lawns. The city would be saved a lot of expense if this was done. Flies can be checkmated by covering the compost heap with sacking. Organic substances like straw, leaves and sawdust, formerly often wasted, are now extensively used to provide humus too. Stable manure is now practically unobtainable, but the product of the sewage farm is an excellent substitute. It is free of weeds and odourless. The folly of putting the sewage into the sea is now known.—Yours, etc., E. A. BARTON. August 29, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27131, 29 August 1953, Page 3
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