XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:22:22 -0000, Mike Dworetsky   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.science,rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > Robert Bannister wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   >> But at the height of horse-drawn traffic, there was far   
   >> more than could be cleared up, and in 19th century   
   >> London, there wasn't much room for growing rhubarb or   
   >> roses.   
      
   > Actually, it was picked up each night and the carts took   
   > it to fields and farms outside London where it was   
   > composted   
      
   I initially misread that as ‘crossposted’; clearly I’ve been   
   doing this for much too long.   
      
   > and used to fertilize farms, grain fields, grazing land,   
   > and orchards.   
      
   Brian   
      
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