| Show correspondence WAVES WATER CLOSETS ON THE FARM the iowa register ister treats thus sensibly upon an unattractive but necessary subject the most important institution on on very every farm is either totally neglected to D the discomfort and injurious to the health of the f family amily or it is an intolerable nuisance disgraceful to civilization it is not a very pleasant subject to be discussed before our readers but out there is so BO much inconvenience suffering sickness and even death caused by the neglect of having such a convenience that we api approach roach it bold ly the oid old fashioned practice of digging a vault five or six teet feet deep and building a closet over it in a way that is almost possible impossible in to clean out the vault but which is generally left to fill up with the voiding and the drainage and keepings see pings from it saturate the soil oil for a long distance frequently frequents y reaching the well and reader rendering ing the water poisonous engendering typhoid typhoid fevers and other epidemics which scientific researches have frequently traced to these causes the best way probably on a farm is to build a water closet as near to the house and as much out out of sight as possible os sible but bat so the rear part of it can t be e reached by a team of horses build the closet up high enough from t the he ground to admit a box two by five feet and two feet deep set on narrow runners made maae of two by four scantling ing tapered up in f rout front and fixed axed so that when filled a horse can be hitched to it and haul it out to the field or to the compost heap and emptied there should always be kept in the water closet a barrel or box of road dust with which to sprinkle tile the void ings whenever they are likely to become offensive in smell by strictly attending to this precaution the vault can be kept f from roin being offensive ive i even if the vault is at the end of the back porch besides when mixed with dust the contents of the box will not be disagreeable to the person hauling it out nor will it pollute tile the atmosphere in the field this plan is not as expensive as the old fashioned pit the cleaning of which is usually such a disagreeable task that it is never attended to besides when the old vault plan is used it is generally put so BO far from the house that weak or delicate persons frequently frequents yavlle avoid d bisin using it greatly greatly to the injury of their health an and the shortens shortening ot of their lives this is no scalf miriah matter but one ot of the first importance to the welfare and comfort of the family and no good man neglect his duty and his pleasure in changing his present disgusting and disease breed breeding ing nuisance for an arrangement which is healthful and not offensive the above is worth the attention of all householders in salt lake city in fact of the whole territory another simple plan to get rid of this worst of all domes domestic fic nuisances is in addition to abolishing the vault or hole in the ground build a small upen apen enclosure of brick against the back of the closet inkawhich inA in which to deposit ashes and every day throw some of the ashes under the closet seat the ashes besides being more ore rea readily ily obtain obtainable ab e than dry ea earth rt 2 are quite as good aoda a disinfectant or absorbent an and are much uch lighter than dry earth the mixture therefore can be e more ore easily re removed ove no box is requisite in this plan consequently no horse is required to haul it away it can be shoveled into a wheelbarrow or wagon without offending the tortes tories such is my experience M salt lake city may |
