Hearings of the International Joint Commission in re remedies for the pollution of boundary waters between the United States and Canada

by International Joint Commission

Mr. Paterson. The labor cost is about 2 shillings per ton.

Mr. Dallyn. Does the fertilizer possess a solid residue devoid of organic life; do the seeds germinate at all?

Mr. Paterson. That is not our experience; of course, there is bound to be organic life.

Mr. Dallyn. I mean, as you deliver it from your plant?

Mr. Paterson. Not so far as we have found.

Mr. Dallyn. I speak of disease germs.

Mr. Paterson. We have not found it so. That dry piece of sewage which you see there has been in my bag for five months.

Mr. Magrath. This process deals entirely with the solids?

Mr. Paterson. Yes; it deals entirely with the solids.

Mr. Magrath. And it does not include any treatment of the liquid sewage.