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Night Soil
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Night Soil 

human urine and feces used as an organic fertilizer. Fertilizers derived from night soil contain approximately 7 percent dry matter, including 1.1 percent N, 0.26 percent P205, and 0.22 percent K20. They make up part of the content of domestic sewage. Night soil in the form of poudrette, obtained by processing with chlorine and subsequent drying, is a principal fertilizer for fodder crops, hemp, and potatoes; its use is prohibited for berry and vegetable crops. It is also used in the preparation of composts.
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The "Purple People", unsung heroes of the night-soil community, have worked wonders this year.
The passion of 'purple people' by Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Just pop it by the kerbside every two weeks, three if it's a Bank Holiday, to be collected by the night-soil staff.
Letter: Your Say - Fortnightly idea a danger by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Just the names alone read now like some kind of exotic zoological catalogue: bone pickers, rag-gatherers, pure-finders, dredgermen, mud-larks, sewer-hunters, dustmen, night-soil men, bunters, toshers and shoremen.
The Ghost Map by Frerichs, Ralph R. / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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