Excerpt from The Sanitarian, Vol. 34: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Preservation of Health, Mental and Physical Culture; January to June, 1895

The swill accumulation of New York City collected in a fresh state daily, and given to animals, either alone or mixed with gram, contains sufficient nutriment to feed and fatten thousands of them.

Two rather formidable difficulties lie in the way of this con summation.

The first lies in the difficulty of introducing the system, of convincing the masses of householders that it is particularly to their advantage and in their interests to separate and so store the table refuse, that it may be daily collected by the public scavenger. Let the people be once assured that this will be daily collected, without any expense to them, rather, possibly, with some profit, and the system will be adopted with alacrity and good will; though for the shiftless and careless penalties must be introduced and rigorously enforced.

But assuming that householders will store their refuse of this character, does it possess sufficient value to warrant any man or number of men to contract to remove this out of the city's limits without expense to the municipality and with substantial profit to themselves?
To this question we may answer with reasonable certainty, yes.

Never in our country's history have draught-horses been cheaper or compulsory idleness among the laboring masses been more general, than at the present time.

This scheme provides a new and vast industry, which though not perhaps highly remunerative yet, would provide steady employment throughout the whole year to a large number of hands.

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