| Show FILTH IN FARMING DISTRICTS the semiweekly semi weekly news of dinst contains an interesting letter from Cro denda of enterprise mor gan county but his hie comments concern ing remarks made at our late stake conference held in farmington are not no mo strictly correct as they should be I 1 took notes notee of a sermon referred to and am better prepared to report what was said than your correspondent who I 1 am positive tive gut got his hie information in what may be termed a second or third hand band manner and conse conee fluently the beeaker le remarks anti anu meaning wo would uld be very apt to be changed and distorted he did not say fay that morgan was wa a dirty little town ana that some of the residents did not know enough to keep cl clean ean 11 he talked rather on general principles and in referring to the jack of wisdom in farmers by allowing filthy corrals stables pigpens etc to remain near their dwellings ings he rather incidentally mentioned morgan a city as being very filthy in this thin respect as he had lately visited that locality his remarks about their out outhouse houses were similar and no doubt correct the mistake was in mentioning one oae of I 1 presume e all a the cities and towns in the country similarly situated in regard to the condition of outhouses out houses the immense area of mountain and other range for stock in morgan county will account forthe for the farming community being compelled to have yard and stable room for such stuck stock but a remedy tor lor the outhouse unnecessary nuisance is the moral I 1 wish to again IM impress props on the minds of your readers in the clean and costly raged city of salt lake about steps southwest of the NEWS office in an AD open lot is an Out bous tat 1114 4 is 16 al most as strong a nuisance as a putrid dead ox could create and do zone zens perhaps hundred smore emore exist in salt bait lake city As aa the unwelcome news of the gradual approach of cholera will cause your readers to better appreciate an offee effective and simple remedy for the out house bouee nuisance I 1 will enclose a clipping from the NEWS of june last on the subject ot of keeping wells secured against worms and other reptiles reptile falling in also on ventilating houses and the dry earth system I 1 think it would woud be a good plan to again publish the cheap and easily manipulated dry earth system therein described SOME BOMB TIMELY suggestions search was recently made lor for a lost bucket in a well which had been cleaned out only a few months before and I 1 assisted by flashing the sunlight from a looking glasa to the bottom of the well and a discovery I 1 then made has prompted me to write the present article the bottom of the weil was quite thickly covered with dead angle worms and a fruit can was drawn up containing about three dozen A neighbor whose well is shallow and easily cleaned out informed me that he empties his well every few weeks on purpose to td clean out the dead angle worms an important question here arises for consideration it is a difficult matter to clean out a deep well weil with a heavy flow of water and yet worms mice and other vermin also alao vast quantities of filth are more apt to be found in such wells the trouble is that they are not often sought after and the mischief done to is unaccounted for except in injured health some wells are not cleaned out for years in succession and when they are so treated such things are brought to sight as make one shudder to think what the family has been taking down for torso so long a time bill nye possibly has written one truth when he stated that a schoolhouse well cleaned out during his bis school days accounted for the mysterious disappearance of the ahe teacher two years before his body having been found at the bottom of the well with a full supply of dinner buckets and other oiher etceteras t the only remedy I 1 suppose is in replacing rot ret dry rock walls with stone 01 or brick walls walis laid in good lime mortar or cement lor for a few feet below the surface and fitting the frame work with the same material then with a handily arranged trapdoor trap door in the curb where buckets bucket a are used water can be kept in a reasonably pure condition if some of your readers who have had experience will tell us through the columns ol of the NEWS how far below the surface the wall laid in mortar should extend and furnish any other useful on the subject it will be greatly appreciated every town ought ht to be compelled either by legal statutes or taxation to own a force pump with suitable hose specially for this bui business siness it would be another step in the right dire direction cdon to have it fitted on wheels and supplied with hose suitable for use in case of fire where a better organization is in not in existence to extinguish fires it might be proper here to mention n as a precautionary measure that unless a very heavy ints insurance urance policy is carried it is in a good plan to have water ditches and ditch gates always in good repair also aliso a few barrels of water secured against the accidental drowning of children by boards being nailed on the barrels A kindred subject to the above is ventilation ti in p private rivele and public houses houseal poor ventilation causes the digestive organs to be impaired and in other ways seriously affects the human organization our newspapers and preachers ought to call the attention of the public to these things oftener than they do A presiding officer who does not know that an adult person breathes cubic feet of air in an hour ought to study some work on the laws of health I 1 have seen meeting houses packed with suffering humanity for nearly two hours at a time and only supplied with fresh air from occasionally opened doors or through holes in the windows the latter caused no doubt by thoughtless boys who did not realize that they were thus abing baving the lives or health of their zealous but also thoughtless parents A great evil that ought to be remedied and the strong arm of the law should be invoked to protect innocent people from suffering thereby is the unnecessary and yet almost universal and disgraceful practice of not adopting some proper method of attending to our outhouses out houses A brief description of an effective and simple mode of doing away with the nuisance is as follows have in the a box of dry earth and a small shovel behind the building there should be a quantity of loose earth on which the ati lipan should be emptied if a roof la is over this pile of earth it ft will be more effective As often as aa it is round found necessary dig a hole in the large pile of earth and shovel in the same the contents of the outhouse place two stakes in the corners of the hole thus filled and repeat the same all over the surface of the earth mound afterwards the plan can be repeated with but little if any unpleasant swell smell as the dry earth banh will wilf soon cause all offensive matter to decompose and mix with the earth the same earth can be used for several years it appears without any particular necessity for changing it As aa nothing but butr labor Jabor la is involved irk in carrying out this system there can be no excuse given by any person for not adopting it C CT T farmington june 3 1892 |
