Show I Agricultural Helps I ILET LET THE MACHINE ACHIN DO IT Furnished by the Utah Agricultural College Farmers are said to be slow in takIng taking tak talc ing lag up anything new now The nature of ot their work makes kes them conservative By playing entirely safe they sometimes some some- times Imps overlook advantages that would result by being a little more venture venture- omo We have had occasion slon recently to visit a number of ot manufacturing pl plants where improved Improve machinery was being used Every process In the factory Is carefully studied and If It a machine can bo be Installed that lint will make a ro sating SATIng SAT SAT- Ing In hand work no expense Is spared to put In lu tho the machine As a result manufacturing has made wonderful progress during the last generation Agriculture has likewise made somo some y very ry notable changes such as from the Sickle to the combined harvester ester and f from m the ilie small pony to the modern mod ern tra tractor tor As noteworthy as th those these se advances have been we believe that our farmers could make Improvements In their methods by being on the constant con con- constant stant lookout for machinery to take the place of hand labor TYPHOID FEVER AND THE FARM WELL By y Dr J J. J B. B Greaves Utah Agricultural College Tho farm well Is often oCten the most i dangerous part of ot the farm Instead I of ot giving pure life saving water It often ofton olton of ol- ton ten furnishes Infected death spreading fluid There Is no o way for the eye to detect between the pure and tho the Imp Impure e water wrIter But it Is true that In Inthe Inthe inthe the average a farm well unprotected from Infection as It Jt is there thero are present pres pros ent numerous kIn kinds s of ot disease causing organisms Not ot only the dreaded t typhoid but many Intestinal diseases on the farm may be traced trace to Impure well ell water Yet It is not necessary for the farm to have any Infected source of or r water supply Proper care to guard the well against contamination will keep the supply pure Why Is Is' Is It that In 8 sa so many rural districts arI various us Intestinal intestinal nal diseases are more mOTe prevalent than they are In large cities dUes when the reverse reverse re reo re- re verse erso should be true we find at least a partial answer to this this' question In tho the difference rence In water supplies s of ot tho the two districts In tho cities clUes the water supplies are usually carefully guarded against contamination while In the country countr districts the supply of water Is usually obtained from wells and these In many places are sha shallow v 1 and what Is la worse than that not protected pro pro- protected from the filth which may bo be carried In from flom the top Eminent authorities authorities au au- au on this subject have found that where one death from typhoid could be bc prevented by Improving the water supply two or three deaths from other caus causes s could be prevented by the Improvement An improved water supply not only reduces the number of deaths from typhoid fever but d decreases de der creases infant mortality and the death rate from gastro intestinal o-intestinal disturb dIsturb- ances ancos This Is due not only to the tho removal of producing disease-producing organIsms organisms organisms organisms' organ organ- isms Isms' f from om the water but there are many other substances and organisms In Impure water which greatly reduce the bO bodily ily vigor of the Individual using using us us- ing it And anything or condition which In any way reduces the bodily vitality mn makes es the Individual an easy mark for disease Many Man we wells lIs are only loosely covered with planks between en which grasshoppers pers toads or leaves make their way It Is easy to tn see how the filth from the boots of working men or from children playing on the tho planks or from poultry walking abo about t carrying Infection ton tion on their feet may get Into the water wa ter tel and pollution pollution may easily casIly take place One need not go go far far Into tho country countr to fin find places where the outhouses outhouses out out- houses ore are freely open at the tho back BO so that tint fowls can walk un under er and from there unto onto the planks covering cring the tho well All the filth loft left by them on the cover coyer of the well Is later washed Into the well yell This could do lo little harm If f tile the disease germs germ were we-re not present But one never knows when tho they may be present It Is not enough b to know that no case of ot typhoid has been upon the premises for It Is often otten the case that apparently healthy Individuals In are aro carrying within or excreting from their bodies the tho dIsease disease disease di dI- sease germs For these reasons the 01 old 1 planks which cover so 80 many wells ells should be replaced by a n tight fitting cement platform covering not only the surface sur sur- fries face of but several feet surrounding the well and passing passIn Into the ground roun or four tour feet teet so BO that all nil the wa war warter water water ter which finds Its way Into the Ule well vell must pass through several feet of firm soil Under these thee conditions the tho well ell ellIt If It fairly sleep deep can be depended upon for or water Vh Where re water Is known tobe to tobe tobe be or strongly suspected of ot being contaminated con the tho only remedy Is to boll boil the water before use The Tho ninny many filters fil te rs which are being beng offered to the public cannot be depended upon unless un un- I le less IS s the they hey are so BO constructed that they theyan an be taken apart every day and cleaned by heating to lo a aed ed red h heat t |