Sewage disposal . ps have consisted of barley and wheat,hay, pumpkins, corn, alfalfa and English walnuts. The pro-duction of alfalfa was abandoned for a time since, with thismatted low-growing crop, which cannot be cultivated, the sew-age solids collected in the upper part of the field and causedoffensive conditions. Since the installation of the septic tankto remove these solid materials alfalfa has been grown againand in recent years, alfalfa, walnuts, oat hay and oranges havebeen the principal crops. The following details of operationare taken from the Town Report for 1903-04 (Pasadena, 190
Sewage disposal . ps have consisted of barley and wheat,hay, pumpkins, corn, alfalfa and English walnuts. The pro-duction of alfalfa was abandoned for a time since, with thismatted low-growing crop, which cannot be cultivated, the sew-age solids collected in the upper part of the field and causedoffensive conditions. Since the installation of the septic tankto remove these solid materials alfalfa has been grown againand in recent years, alfalfa, walnuts, oat hay and oranges havebeen the principal crops. The following details of operationare taken from the Town Report for 1903-04 (Pasadena, 1904). Whether being used in the groves or in the open fields, thesewage is not allowed to run upon any one area longer than fromfour to ten days at a time, after which period it is turned uponanother area, and as soon as the area upon which it had beenrunning is sufficiently dry to be worked, which is usually withintwo or three days, it is thoroughly cultivated or plowed. Fre- SEWAGE FARMING IN THE UNITED STATES 229. Fig. 63. Cornfield on the Pasadena Sewage Farm.
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