Show disposal vt of sewage in birmingham one of thi wort worst features under tinder he the old management was the disposal cf of the sewage dy by way of reme ly two cys terns have found adoption dundei one the health committee collects the offal of the houses and either destroys deai roys it or turns it into fertilizers thia this Is more offensive and less successful than it might be made but ie Is apparently a necessity until the pan system has been abandoned A sewage farm of nearly 1300 1 acres has beon been adelel aped several miles from the city some feet lower ib ih elevation the sew age first mixed with lime to pre ent too rapid decomposition and to assist 11 in the precipitation of the solid matter Is passed through a series of depositing tanks during which process the ran mill I 1 Is removed the remainder Is dug ling into the land one third of which la Is dealt with each year the effluent being discharged d in a barreilles har bar taley rilles state into the river tame upon the other two thirds are brown grown early bege egi tables and grain and hay for cows kept for and market the net annual cost to the lity is about 24 an object lesson in municipal government by 1 parker in the november Noi so ember centary |