Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1873-06-28
HEALTH AND FARMING.

ing. And af the same time there II no
elias. OF persons more regardless of the
rules OF health and the means of its
preservationf than farmers and their
wives Exccreise, fresh air, abundance
OF fruit, pure milk and its prnducts. on
opportunity to have variety of food
early hours, the sleep that comes after
honest toll, all these are within the
reach of the farmers. and vet il is
fact tha. great numbers who enjoy all
these advantages are subjects of decease
DySreI Sia, aud fevers, and consumption,
and many other diseases very
frequently mike their home upon the
farm AID insanity numbers my especial
| " of farmers wives anon. It's victims 1t
Ia easy to account for this apparent
anomaly. Farmers are very often
lnattentive TO the simplest requisites
towards The preservation OF health.
Their exercise becomes to" frequently
an ooertask!ng OF the system, Far
mer's wives, as general thing, are
overworkcd. worn down with lal or
We do not mean that it is involuntary
service They are equally ambitious
Wi tho men To get ahead they are
too ambitious, and hours that should be
devoted to sleep or rest are given to
toll. The saying that "a womons's
work is never done, Is literally true on
the larm, where she rises with the lark.
and continues her WORK late :nto the
night
Blu; We intended rather to speak Of
sanitary matters more general in their
character Sicki cSs is often brought
INTO household hy fhc neglect Of very
SINGLE precautions. \ cellar that
contains decayine Vegetable or animal
latter may breed pesrilcn,o O,e +
Of the Ar,t things 10 be done in The t
spring is to thoroughly cleanse The cellar
to remove everything that is offensive
or that may become so. If a cellar IS
damp, OWN. TO a want of drainage /
this should be attended to- Fever /
have been generated. and have gone
through whole family, originating
from no other causo. The exhala.ion> /
of damp though clean cellar may be
deadly
Sufficient attention is not paid to the t
removal OF everything in the shape al |
Standing water or hidden cess poo in /
the vicinity Of The dwelling. We have
often seen such pcstllcnce breeders
within a few Yards Of the farm bouse
vhen they have been removed by u |
little grading of the surface of The /
ground, or by draining. a regard to
appearances should he enough to lead /
any farmer to abate such Duisauces,
but the health Of the whole family may
be involved.
The effect of surface aud under
drainage upon the water of wells is
discussed very forcltly, in connection
with other kindred topics, 10 volume
on health recently published in@Mnssa-
chusetts. judge French, in paper
op "Drainage for Heath,' shows how
wells become impure, and cause of
disease. i
"Common soil is one of the best de, |
odorizers It will abs orb and retain
great amount of corrupt and decompos-
lug matter, depending much on The
character Of the soil. Ii may, there
foro. be long time before the deposits
in the soil. however foul, will extend
even twenty or thirty feet. Bearing
in mind, however, that the clouds give
US three and u half feet in depth of
water annually on every fnot OF our
land that, in addition to this, all that
falls on our buildings is poured down
upon the soil near then, and that oil
that is used 10 kitchens aud wash,
rooms is added thereto, and we see
that there is flood Of water which
goes somewhere. The water in the
well stands ten to thirty feet below the
surface. We know that drains in our
fields, four feet deeep and fifty feet
apart, carry off all the water of the