Lawrence, Mass.—Sold for $1.25 a load. Ready and increasing demand. Two loads used daily at Poor Farm piggery. Cost of collection, $10,000 a year. Estimated receipts, $6,000 a year.
New Haven, Conn.—Cost of collection, $18,000 a year. Fed to hogs on farm owned by city (description below).
Fall River, Mass.—City pays contractor $7,800 a year for the removal of garbage. He feeds it to pigs on farm owned by him.
Worcester, Mass.—Municipal piggery (description below).
Corning, N. Y.—Contractor pays city $122 a year for privilege of collecting at 10¢. a can. Garbage taken by him to his hog farm.
The city of Brockton, Massachusetts, owns the land and buildings necessary for feeding swine, also the horses and teams necessary for collection. The Mayor’s office reports that the city has not been able to make any profit on this method of disposal. In fact, for the last ten years the average cost to the city has been about $5,000 annually.
Taunton, Massachusetts, collects garbage only in the center of the city. The remainder is taken by private parties. The city has only two teams and two men at work. The Secretary of the Board of Overseers says that “in consequence of doing things in this way it is of little or no expense and gives quite good satisfaction.”
The expense and receipts during one year for the piggery were as follows:
| Wages of employees | $1,299.90 |
| Expenses, not including board of two horses belonging to department | 375.92 |
| $1,675.82 | |
| Receipts from swine | 3,260.91 |
New Haven, Connecticut, pays $18,000 a year for the collection of its garbage, which is hauled to a farm rented by the city and fed to hogs owned by the city. The Board of Health reports: “Outside of some complaints from the piggeries we have got along. Our Board has repeatedly recommended the destruction of the same, but as yet nothing has materialized.”