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'i Jose; U e Liu’ i-iii \ll J' t. 1 .ill, S< CO 1 \ ' U’l, 1 Is "* J J,s I ' M ' ; io. nit : ■> ~i nor- biaiU' HYBRIDS i a ” oh’:i 'r' 'l. , with a bare four-acre plot that had been in timber. They mixed gar bage and sludge from a secondary sewage treatment plant and worked it into the soil at the rale of 100 tons per acre. Pine seedlings were planted in the fall. By the next spring, it was ob vious that the seedlings were doing better in the garbage plots. They survived the winter better, and were much taller and healthier in appearance. Some trees reached a height of five feel in only eight months, in addition, a dense un dergrowth developed on the garbage plots, protecting the soil from erosion and providing lood and cover tor wildlife. Since trees aren’t food, there’s no danger of human con tamination, and the long growing period tor pines 20 to 30 years allows tor large amounts of gar bage and sewage to decompose slowly. 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But looking at the other side tor a moment, suppose this garbage thing catches on and the ecologists accept it? Where would a city like Wilmington find a woods big enough to take its output? Or tor that matter, a farmer or forester willing to take it? The Florida researchers say a tew hundred acres could handle the waste from a city ol 100,000 people. But there are a lot ot cities and if this idea works they will all want forest land for dumps. As the population and garbage output increase, available space will run TP WiOTKY SEES: A.v'Ai’L ABLEt: Mount Joy, PA Ph: (717)653-4121 STORAGE SYSTEMS \C. CONCRETE WORK, INC. out and the same fanner who is being told not to spread cow manure on land may be required to spread urban waste a few years hence. 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