The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-08
TOPICS FOR FARMERS.
Sanitary Precautions.-Amone

Sanitary Among the
sanitary precautions which should be
observed in summer time, especially by
those resident in country places, the
Rural Neao Yorker thinks that perhaps
none is more important than that they
should breakfast before going out to
work in the morning. Compliance with
this rule is particularly beneficial in
newly-settled districts, on hat-lying
lands, on all river bottoms, and wherever
vegetation is rank and of rapid growth.
In early morning science and exper-
fence alike prove that the mischievous
ingredients of the air are part cularly
active, while the human system is un-
usually lax and debilitated and proper
tionately liable to be injuriously af-
fected by noxious atmospheric infu-
ences, liability greatly lessened by the
bracing up of the system produced by
an early breakfast.
In all places subject to miasma some
of the settlers die yearly of it, while
others live to ripe old age, and an ex-
animation of the causes leading to these
very different results. will, in almost ev-
cry case, show that an early break fast
holds probably the most prominent
place. The Creoles of Louisiana, like
the old settlers in Florida, rarely VEN
ture out of doors in the morning, in
summer time, before taking at least a
cup of strong coffee with biscuit or
crackers; the traveller foolish enough to
venture before breakfast across the
| miasmatic Pontine marshes near Rome,
| is pretty certain to die in few days
thereafter, whereas if fortified with
| breakfast, he may make the journey in
safety.
A few other brief hints on what ones
conduct should be in warm weather may
not be out of place. Keep the head
cool in the sun, by placing in the hat a
cabbage leaf or wet cloth; after work
change the sweat-moistened clothing
and invigorate the system with daily
bath. Avoid all carbonaceous, or heat
producing food, such as fat meats, but
ter, sugar, ETC., and eat lib-rally of veg
etables, such as spinach, melons, etc, al
we'll as of ripe fruit, while eschewins
carefully that which is unripe. In bath
ing be careful to put cotton or some
other substance into the ears, for FIRE
quent injury to. the hearing and some
times permanent deafness result from
diving without such precaution. Keel
the bowels open by mild aperient, sucl
as Turkey rhubarb. EPSON salts, etc.
and it would also be we'll to keep OF
hand some diarrhea mixture. Kee1
cool in body, and especially keep cool il
temper.
A friend seeing these lines, remarke
that he thought ninety-nine out of ey
! erg hundred readers never acted on sue
advice. In that caSe," was the reply
"the article was written for the sensibl
one"
Poultry ON Large Scale.-Like e,
, erything else, poultry requires to hav
, common sense used in its management
, There is common sense in a few her
: being kept by any man living in cit
, and having small yard at the back {
his house where he perhaps has stab
with pair of horses, but there would
folly in his having great number
There is good common sense in having
fine lot of fowls running around ever
0 farm homestead, but none in keeping s
e many as to bring on disease. Thel
i; would be common sense in placing OF
n thousand hens in families of fifty ovt
n two hundred acres, giving them full Iii
a erty to range where they pleased, an
e having their roosts so constructed that
:. yoke of oxen or pair of horses could
r hitched to them and haul them to ne
e site when crops growing near require
t the absence of the poultry, or when
e coop had been e ood while in one plac
b and the surroundings were becomi1
> saturated too much with the manur
d On large farm with springs and ru
l. ming streams of water, ten thousa1
q might be kept, by persevering attentit
in moving when necessary, and by plo'
II ing some ground all the while, near tt
a fowls, and also by planting patches
e rye in September to give them green fo'
is through the winter, which would
is available whenever the snow is not lyil
a thereon. But it would he folly for t,
% thousand or only one thousand to
5, kept confined on few acres, and expe
/, anything but disaster. With amp
d range fowls will be healthy in sms
e families and require little besides VIII
l. they will find by foraging, at the sar
d time they will lay eggs enough to ma
2 two dollars per hen; but confne the
]. on few acres and they will eat dout
e of purch 4sed food and lay not more tn
7, seventy-fve cents worth of eggs P
e head in proportion to the close confr
# ment.