The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-07-30
gonre, farm and garden
pp Earth as a DeodohIer.

DRY Earth as Deodohzef.
Several closets at the Agricultural Coi-
Ieee are built on ground slightly s'opmg'
with the back side toward the FOOT o. '"e
slope. No pits or holes are dug. Aiohg
the back Size are doors, turned nO"n
horizontally and hung on hinges by the
upper edge. The doors usually hAng
down to the ground, but may be easily
raised to remove night-soil when neces-
sarv small room in the same build
ing is filed. in dry time, With dry muck,
loam. or dust from the road. Clay Is
better than sand. Every day, or every
other day, or twice a day, small guam
titv Is shoveIed into each closet. Cop
neras-water, lime, plaster, or other oe-
odorizers are also used in addition 10 ory
earth Every few weeks, or even once
or twice a year for small family, the
nioht.soiI is carted away 70 the compost
heap.
If cared for as above there is almostno
unpleasant odor, nor is it more disagree
able to cart away than so much manure
from a barnyard The advantages OF
some such mode are: The closets may
be cheaply made and kept nearly Tree
from unpleasant odor; they may conse-
ouentIy be placed much nearer the
house, or even connected with it; there
is no pestilential filth filtering into ad-
iaeent wells. or otherwise causing "mys-
terious epidemics" in the family; the
compost heap is increased in value. Some
thing like this, or better than this, must
some day become the universal custom
ia all the best private houses, schools,
railway depots and hotels
Slons from the kitchen can be run up
on a heap of dirt, which may be occa-
sionalIy shoveIed over and changed after
il has absorbed good deal of filth. 1t
is then well worth removing as fertll-
izer IL is better than running under
ground into pit, where the odors gen.
eraIly find some way to escape, often into
the kitchen, on account of some defect
or stoppage of the pipes.
The use of dry earth is vastly better
than to wash the filth into a sewer, thence
into a river, TO contaminate the air and
water. A little mouse, dead frog or
squirrel. or a few dead dead worms will
spoil the water of a well SO every one will
smell it and refuse to drink it. The same
subjects are completely deodorized by
small shovelful of dry earth. h.-PTof. Bedt,
IF Michigan Agricultural College.
SEED CLEANING ExPERINiENTs.-We
have before us the result of the cleansing
of barley and wheat by the aid Of one
of the most perfect grain separators we
have ever seen-which we believe have
never before been published. The first
was bushel of barley, weighing forty
six pounds, which was separated witt
the following results, viz: From the
bushel twenty-eight pounds of PLUMP
seed barley was obtained, thirteeI
pounds of light barley and oats, thret
pounds of buckwheat and one pound o.
seeds of weeds. The second was bush
el of wheat weighing iiftY-eight pounds,
cIeansed with the following results
From this bushel thirty-four pounds o.
Mol, or heavy seed wheat were obtained
twelve pounds of No. 2, or middlint
Qight) wheat, six pounds of No. wheat
(very small, pipched kernels) and pint
or cookie, five pounds of oats and bar
ley, and one pound of tangle-weed anc
other foul seeds.
As both the above samples of grail
were taken from the ordinary crop
grown on a first-class farm, it will b
seen how large a proportion of poor
light grain, as well as seeds Of foul an
noxious plants, were being raised an
propagated by the use as seed OF the baI
ley and wheat raised. Even if the oat
and barley and wheat were in every Ii
stance cleaned or washed before beinl
sown-which, however, is not the cas-
the seeds of weeds are propagatet
through Ine uidnuro hAuiou Ou" NP
the land, and our fields are by this mean
overrun with useless plants and weeds
So, If the farmer would not only rais'
profitable crops of heavy grain, but keeI
his farm clean and free from weeds, he
must be careful to SOW only good grain
thoroughly cleansed, free from worth
less and foul lseed.-MdiHe Farmer.
KILLING WEEDs.-It is a great mis-
take TO cut of the tops of thistles, quack