The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-11-14
AGRICULTURAL.
THE HOUSE. FARM AND GARDEN.

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Prom the Burlington Haxkeye
THE MODERN FARMER.
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ana Al gay long the snout ana song
oA 'He ieAfV's 81 A~' away
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The ns;.e ~ ~. rcan;nc r,.b;ne.
anu Ca ever aga. ~ .ns ~ y. p~.n
O'e' ''e' '''e
f;ts i ''' '-
AID s;ncx .s i, s,.,s and 3;xes.
whsr. ,hs s,sn,, >. s;,. and vsi,s As h. c;ts
His fingers among the knives.
No longer We hear on the hillside sere,
The scythe-stones ciinkety clink;
But the reaping machine cuts M, leg on 1 ~een'
ne'ofe ever '"e niAn can ''i'n>
With foreboding and tears his good wife hears
The man of the house say good-by.
To return, in sooth. with . horse-rake tooth
Sticking four inches out OF his eye.
u.o a.. ,t-..t anna :; ;,, halle, and
din
How burdeped with sorrow the hour,
When they pause To scan what is left Of the
man
Chawed up IN an eight-horse power.
n r.,;. ,,. h;u.
WI, vo;cs Gov ,h.. doctor becss
It's the stoker who fell. and. awful to tell.
The steam harrow ran over his legs.
Thus all day long; with mirth ana song
Ihey laugh AT tne d,ead alarms;
i1 %t sna .ne .nd lac. ~e nd arms
Then pity the sorrows of the poor old granger
Whose mansled limbs have borne him To the
fence;
Who braSed' Win reckless eouiAse' uh''iu
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SANITARY vs: OF TREES.
oor,...s,,orla nt of tho l,,er;r,, 1r-
.L:,eet III a,,ent;o, IN a phenomenon
,,h;cb bs has observed in the overflow Of
,rasta from, b;s Sovp house He has a
closa-Lu;Jt br;ck cassnool eioht feet in
diameter and eight feet deep. with an
overflow Thence ior iiquiEs inuo Pcfoo
latlng stone cesspooi ten ieet ny zen rect
both are domed over at the Top, eac,
closed with IA nat stone ana covered with
SOL; Unlike MS nsigoors, whose cess
pools are constructed IN the same manner,
and IN the same KIND OF sou; put VINO are
subjected TO the necessity OF cleaning OUT
ooth cesspoois at irelaeh. IhtcrNais' us
owp nave oeeh IN use iol ioul !els VIII
OUT peih2 oiehe", anu nave S'eh mn, ho
inconvenience: Few hioh'ns ago ueep
excavation IN 'he stree, near MS pereoial.
ing or overflow cessPoot Ie''ic4 ,he lac,
that the moistnre rom IL was an aosorpeu
by the roots OF thTee large anu nourishihg
trees-ii tuilp anu TWO iiap '.,,s us I'M
mediate helgnoorioco. imete can oe
no accumulation Oh wafer, ne says,
where tIeie were suIh ch"iii'eis 10 nav
1t mp. ms certainty Is AN important
point 10 be eonsideren III ioca'ihg .he ara WI
Oh absorption ior huuseho'u VASE. we
90 not reinehhoer 10 ilaTe seen eise"heie
noticed this very propd',ie SANITARY Iun.
non Oh ,rees; ou. IL .ne .ileols rs, - ooiIec''
u goes lar 10 soi'e ,ic ser,ons uiiloui'' III
the prooieh OIL uraiii'ge WITHOUT common
sewers
BOTTLES OF DEATH. To THINK OVER.
Twan,v-6ve hotties of varous sizes stood
ON jrryo;st's hack shelf Yesterday
There NAV he thirty today. for daily addi-
irons arr. made Most of Them contains a
nL;sb-coJored l;ouid more or less bright
g., orr, ,olorlcs, Tbev arr, saunIes of
yrat.r from, the wells and cisterns of our
,-;Jla,,e and Of other VILLAGES 4 few drops
,>.,,.,,,,,,,an,t. AZ no,,,ssa o;ve H., n;nl
Color IL The water i Imnure il bleacbes
on, th. .oior and any or,,,p;,. matter !,
U,",. hoIJ i nrac;n;ia,ed 10 the bot,om
H. l. .. 10th. of wafer from a well in
| Seneca Falls. II is colorless, and there is
thick deposit at the bottom. The family
using this well has been sick all summer.
| Here Is water from aweli used 10y a family
where the wife and mother has Just died
| from typhoid fever. |: has some color,
but there Is q large deposit at the bottom.
Here Is water from well that supplied a
family whose little children lie dead.
There are many bottles sent in by those
alarmed III the sickness and death among
their neighbors A very few are bright
in color and free from sediment, but the
most are more or less changed and with
more or less deposit. People are waking
up To the fact that village wells are as a rule
unsafe and impure. and now tnat long
continued drought has reduced the water
and concentrated the poison this fact Is
brought sharply into light. IL Is now the
fashion TO boil your water before using II:
10 drink weak cold tea, and, We are sorry
to say, the users OF strong drink now have
new argument. against the use Of cold
water. Gold water Is scarce article just
now. with a two months drought and
thermometer at eighty degrees Tin mid
October. but the use of water in any form
unless boiled Is decidedly unpopUlar.-
TIE Christian at Work.
vrrntxc APPLE TRIES.
We sho ~ 'ti'". :" 49, ~. "a
-, ., ,la;r l,,Iias Instead of uniting the
fodder before their heads THIS Is. how