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Show CLEANING CISTERNS ' Charcoal Is the great standby in , cleaning els'crns or sweetening them whore the pollution Is only of comparatively com-paratively harmless character. Take about a biiBhcl of charcoal, cruBh It, and place It In n bng, which Is suspended sus-pended In the well near the bottom. All odors, taBtcs and smells arc soon absorbed by tho charcoal. J Hut charcoal will not cleanse a dirty dir-ty cistern There Is only ono way to get nt them; drain them dry and scrape them clenn To quote a case in point: A farmer complained that his cistern cis-tern water seemed Infected with some unknown Impurity nnd hnvlng Just'"cleaned the cistern, be did not knolv what could bo the matter He tried tho chnrcoal cure, but in n few-days few-days the water waB as bad us ever. So( he cleaned tho cistern once more nnd discovered a dend rat. This goes, to Bhow that while charcoal will (Bwecten a well, it will not by any means make a dirty cistern safe Successful Farming. |