| Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - 1884 - 786 pages
...fold. There is no guano comparable in fertilizing power to the detritus of a capital. * * * We fit out convoys of ships, at great expense, to gather up at...droppings of petrels and penguins, and the incalculable element of wealth which we have under our hands we send to the sea. All the human and animal manure... | |
| Peter Lund Simmonds - 1873 - 508 pages
...yields a hundred and twenty fold. To employ the city to enrich the plain would be a sure success. If our gold is filth, on the other hand, our filth is...with this filth, gold ? It is swept into the abyss." Mr. Leppmann, director of the central experimental station in Bavaria, speaks of the loss of fertilisers... | |
| James Copper Bayles - 1878 - 380 pages
...no guano comparable in fertilizing power to the detritus of a capital. * * * vaiae ot " We fit out convoys of ships at great expense to gather up """"".at...droppings of petrels and penguins, and the incalculable element of wealth which we have under our hand we send to the sea. All the human and animal manure... | |
| James Copper Bayles - 1878 - 380 pages
...detritus of a capital. * * * value at " We fit out convoys of ships at great expense to gather up t " !ge 'at the South Pole the droppings of petrels and penguins, and the incalculable element of wealth which we have under our hand we send to the sea. All the human and animal manure... | |
| Joseph Miller Wilson - 1880 - 84 pages
...twenty fold. There is no guano comparable in fertilizing power to the detritus of a capital " We fit out convoys of ships at great expense to gather up at...droppings of petrels and penguins, and the incalculable element of wealth which we have under our hand we send to the sea. All the human and all the animal... | |
| 1883 - 710 pages
...the most powerful of stercoraries To employ the city to enrich the plains would be a sure success. If our gold is filth, on the other hand our filth is...convoys of ships at great expense to gather up at th> south pole the droppings of petrels and penguins and the incalculable elements of wealth which... | |
| Michigan. Department of Health - 1888 - 954 pages
...million golden francs by the wretched vomiting of its sewers." " We fit out convoys of ships," he says, "at great expense to gather up at the south pole the droppings of petrels and penguins and the incalcuable element of wealth which we have under onr own hand we send to the sea" — "from this two... | |
| Kansas State Board of Health - 1889 - 374 pages
...to human fertilization, the earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. We fit out convoys of ships, at great expense, to gather up at...droppings of petrels and penguins, and the incalculable element of wealth we have under our own hand we send to the sea. All the human and animal manure which... | |
| 1892 - 860 pages
...yields one hundred and fifty fold. To employ the city to enrich the plain would be a sure success. If our gold is filth, on the other hand our filth is gold. What is done with this filth which is gold I It is swept into the abyss." The agriculture of the United States is an industry great... | |
| Victor Hugo - 1895 - 404 pages
...stercoraries. To employ the town in manuring the plain, that would be certain success. If our gold be filth, on the other hand, our filth is gold. What is done with this filth ? It is swept into the gulf. We send at a great expense fleets of ships to collect at the southern... | |
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