The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1849-10-11
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Keen the Premises Clean.


misses as clean as possible, for the impor-
tant purposes of saving manure and pro-
noting health. Some discerning persons
getation is in flourishing condition, it is
more healthy in the country than in the
city, but the reverse is the case in Septem-
ber, and October, as al this season many
vegetable productions have come to matu-
rity and are decaying, filling the air with
noxious gases and odors; hence arise fe-
vers, dysentary, and other complaints,
which are more common in the country
early in fall. We give this view of the
subject, which some have presented, and
we will make few remarks on subjects
that claim the particular attention of every
cultivator. whether this view be correct or
not.
Keep the premises, particularly around
the dwelling, perfectly free from every
substance that will faint the air. Every
decaying vegetable Of animal substance
should be removed a good distance, and
then covered in earth, for the purpose of
manure.
The pig-pen, though at a respectable
distance, should be supplied with loam to
absorb all liquid matter. ALI manure i'll
the barn-yard should be covered with
and to keep the air pure, as, in changes so
common to the wind, the air is likely to
be waited from the barn to the house.
Cellars should be made as clean as pos
sible, particularly as they communicate
directly with the dwelling above, and any
foul air produced in them is very liable to
pass into the house. All vegetables in the
cellar that are tending to decay should be
removed Immediately. 1t is best to ven
tilate cellars thoroughly by opening doors
and windows, and to keep the door open
as little as possible that communicates with
the rooms.
Ground plaster, and freshly burnt char
coal, set IN vessels or strewed around in
cellars, or other places where foul air ex-
lists, or is liable to be produced, has a very
healthy effect by absorbing gases.
Necessaries often produce foul atmos.
phere around them; and as the dwelling is
near, the offensive air is often waited to it,
operating injuriously. Some prepare these
er substances all nigh. soil, SO as to dc
away entirely Will dill uupledSdIlt dlu ulf
wholesome effects. When this is not the
case, charcoal, plaster. chloride of lime, o1
other dlsinfectants, should be thrown into
the vault, to absorb all noxious odors.
Water from the sink should be absorbed
in loan &C., for manure, instead of rising
in foul gases and being blown into tht
: house. There are some cases OF mallg
nant and fatal disorder going through ;
family, while all the rest of the neighbor
hood are in good health. This is Otter
owing to some local cause, some foul pud
die, pool, or stagnant pond, near the dwell
, ling, or general negligence as to keepln!
the premises clean.
Decaying weeds, grass, potatoes affect
ed with the rot, potato tops, pumpkin AM
5 other vines, and various productions, ar
undergoing decomposition in the fall; ant
) in the aggregate the amount is large, AM
2 filing the air with pestilential gases. Far
f mers may do much good to themselve
: and the community by burying all sue
substances, and converting them into ma
nure. Make them into compost heaI
5 well covered with loam, to absorb the ga
ses.-Neac England Farmer.