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Show How About Your WellT The following, taken from a docu ment Issued by the Michigan State Board of Health, should receive the thoughtful attention of every one: "The most scrupulous care should be taken to keep the present sources of drinking water pure, and to procure pro-cure future supplies only from clean sources. The general water supply of cities and villages is a matter ol great concern; it should be procured from places where there can be no probability of immediate or remote contamination. The well-known outbreak out-break of typhoid fever at Plymouth, Pa., where over a thousand cases and one hundred and fourteen (114) deaths occurred, is apparently an Illustration Il-lustration of how great a calamity may follow the fouling of a general water supply by the discharges of a person sick with typhoid fever. When there is no general water supply, nor good sewers, much may be done to protect wells by the abolition of cesspits cess-pits and privy vaults, by the use of dry earth in privies, and by the frequent fre-quent removal therefrom of all their drain into wells unsuspected by those who use the water. Should typhoid fever discharges pass into such a privy an outbreak of typhoid fever among those using the water from a neighboring well would be likely to occur. If. such a well were the source of the general water supply of a city, typhoid fever might soon be epidemic there. There is good reason to suspect the water ol a well whenever a vault is situated within a hundred feet of it, particularly particu-larly if the soil be porous. In numerous nu-merous instances fluids from excreta excre-ta have leached into wells from much greater distances; and it has been proved that a well thirty rods from a cemetery received water which had filtered through the soil of the cemetery. ceme-tery. Dangerously contaminated water may be and often is found to be clear and colorless and to have no bad taste." The noted instance at Lausanne, Switzerland, where the discharges from typhoid fever pa- tients were thrown into a small stream, which disappeared by sinking sink-ing into the earth and gravel and reappeared about half a mile distant as a mountain spring, the clear water of which caused typhoid fever in one hundred and forty-four (144) persona, per-sona, is instructive, and is worthy of note as illustrating how the disease may be spread. - - - - A Handy Wagon Box. From the Farmers' Review: We are using on our farm a form of wagon box that is handy and substantial as well. It takes the following material to make it, all dressed and painted. Two sills 2x6x12 feet. Four pieces 2x4x3 feet for cross sleepers. Thirty-six Thirty-six feet unmatched inch boards for floor. Eight clips made from 7-16 iron rod with threads cut and nuts fitted. These clips 9 inches long and used to fasten cross sleepers to underside under-side of sills. Eight socket clips purchased pur-chased from hardware store or may be made from wagon tire Iron. These clips are lx3 inches on inside, and are bolted to outside of sills to receive re-ceive the 2x3 standards on side boards. Eight standards 2x3x18 inches. Two sideboards 1x12x12 feet. Above standards are bolted to these boards, and boards are cleated at each' end to receive endgates, which completes the bottom bed 18 inches high and 12 feet long and will hold twenty-two bushels of ear corn. By adding a ten-inch sideboard 35 bushels of corn can . be hauled. It will take a box of fifty carriage bolts x3 inches and three pounds of 8 penny nails to complete the box. Material for same costs $7.00 dressed ready to make up including hardware hard-ware and extra sideboard, and $10.50 made up 'and painted. We call this box the "knockdown box" because it can be taken apart to remove from the wagon and be stored away In the dry handily when not in use. Geo. W. Brown, Hancock County, Ohio. Feeding Grain to Milk Cows on Pasture. Pas-ture. From Farmers' Review: This is not a dairy section, in fact, there is not a cheese factory or creamery in the county, yet I have been, for many years, though on a limited scale, a dairyman, and have made it an unvarying un-varying practice to feed grain at all times when cows were giving milk, and my opinion is that a reasonable grain ration never pays better than when the cows are on pasture, even the best of pasture, and in the lata summer when grass usually becomes short the milk flow can be, in great measure, kept up and the cows will remain re-main in good condition, always ready for business. Hugh GTeig, Knox uounty, Illinois. |