Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1878-11-07
AGRICULTURAL.
THE HOUSE, FARM AND GARDEN

ihE hi'bEhN fhhNlhhs
The pipe of the quail in the stubble field,
The scent of the new-mOwn hay,
And all day long the shout and song
Of the rcapers so far away.
The restless racket amid the grain,
The noise of the reapng machine;
And ever again the howl Of pain
Comes over the meadow green.
o. sweet is the field where the meadOw-lark
fits
And sings, as it scars and dives;
Where the granger sits and yels as he gifts
His fingers among the knives.
No longer we hear on the hillside sere,
The scythe-stOnGs clinkety clink;
But the reaping machine cuts his leg off, | ween
Before ever the man can think.
With forcboding and tears his good wife hears
The man of the house say gOOd-by,
To return, in sOOth, with horse-rakc tooth
Sticking four inches out of his eye.
When the threshcrs come in with halloo and
din,
How burdeucd with sorrow the hour,
When they pause to sean what is left of the
man
Chawed mp in an eight-horse power.
o, lie and listen! From over the hills,
What voice for the doctor begs:
Iis the stOkcr who fell and, awful to tell,
The steam harrow ran over his legs.
Thus all day long, with mirth and song,
They laugh at the dread alarms;
Though the waving field shall its harvest yield
Of fingers and legs, and arms.
Then pity the sorrows Of the poor old granger
Whose mangled limbs have borne him to the
fence;
Who bravcd, with reckless courage, untold
danger,
And ran his farm with modern implements.
SANITARY USE OF TREES.
\ correspondent of the Ime,icm ii'-
rhit'd calls attention to Il phenomenon,
which he has observed in the overflow OF
waste from his own house. He has Il
closc-hult brick ccSspOOl. eight feet in
diameter and eight tcet deep, with an
overflow thence for liquids into Il pcrco-
ating stone ccSSpOo ten feet by ten feet;
both are dOmcd over at the top, each
closed with a fiat stone and covered with
soil. Unlike his ncgbors, whose cess
pools are constructed in the same manner,
and in the same kind of soil, but who are
subjected to the necessity of cleaning out
both ccsSpOOls at frequent intervals, his
owU have been in use for four years with
out being opened, and have given him no
Inconvenience. \ few months ago deep
cXcIvat on in the street near his percolat-
ing or overflow ccsspool revealed the fact
that the moisture from it was all absorbed
by the roots of three large and ilouriShing
t,crs-a tulip and two maplcs-in its inn
mediate ncighborhCJd. There can be-
no accumulation Of water he says,
where there were such channels TO draw
it mp This certainly is an important
point To br considered in locating the area
of absorption for household waste. We
do not remember to have seen elsewhere
noticed this very probable sanitary func-
tion of trees; but if the theory is correct,
it goes far TO solve the serious difficulty in
the problem Of drainage without common
sewers
BOTTLES OF DEATH. To THINK OVER.
Twenty-Five bottles ofvanous sizes stood
ON Il druggists back shelf yesterday.
There may be thirty to-day, for daily addi-
tons are made. Most of them contains a
pinki-h-colored liquid, more or less bright.
Some are cOlorcss. They are samples o.
water from the wells and cistems of our
village and of other villages. A few drops
pcrmmgnate of pottasSa give the pink
color. II the water is impure it hleachcs
out the color, and any organic matter it
may hold is prrcipitated to the bottom.
Here i, bottle of water from well in
Seneca Falls. II is colorlcss, and there is
a thick deposit at the bottom, The family
using this well has been sick all summer.
Here is water from awcll used 10y a family
where the wife and mother has Just died
from typhoid fever. 1t has some color,
but there Is a large deposit at the bottom.
Here is water from Il well that supplied Il
family whose little children lie dead.
There are many bottles sent in by those
alarmed at 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 rule
unsafe and impure, and now that Il long
continued drought has reduced the water
and concentrated the poison this fact is
brought sharply into light 1t is now the
fashion to boil your water before using it;
to drink weak cold tea, and, We are sorry
to say, the users of strong drink now have
a new argument against the use of cold
water. COH water is scarce article Just
now, with Il two months drought anG
at eighty degrees lin mid
OctObcr), but the use of water in any form
unless boiled is decidedly unpopular
The Christian at Work.
FEEDING APPLE TREES.
We should think man wild to feed
row of cattle in stanchions, on the side
next to their bodies instead of putting the
fodder before their heads. This is, how
ever, substantially what ! saw u man do
ing the other day. He was feeding a lot
Of apple trees with barn-yard refuse, and
piled it carefully up by the body of the
trees, instead of placing it where the
mouths of his subjects could readily get
at it. The fact of the business is, we do
not know much about roots. Square and
cubic roots we learned by heart in the
but these cylindrical roots
that feed our crops and trees are pretty |
nearly a sealed book to us. An idea in
sinuatcd itself into my Uranium last sum-
mcr, while digging in the orchard, to see
if the apple worm did not hide beneath |
the sod. | noticed the sod was tougher
next to the body of the tree, while at q
distance of eight and ten feet it was quite
meager. ! scratched my head great
deaf over the matter, but little scratch
ing of the ground did me better service.
| found the mouths of the apple tree were
+ 1t there several iect from the trunk of
he tree, and sucked in so much of the
moisture and nutriment that the grass had
but little to live on, and gave up lhe fight.
know now where to feed my apple trees.
The CbriStidn at Work.
THE DISEASE OF SWINE.
DR.. Alfred Dunlap, one of the Govern
ment Commission to investigate the dis
ease Of swine, has been making tour Of
in Iowa, having been through |
Adair, Dallas, Guthrie, and Madison
He says that large portion
of the reported hog cholera is not that
disease at all; in fact, there is but very
little cholera among hogs, The disease
which is decimating the hogs so rapidly
is the result of bad treatment, care and
keep, and is simply malarial, or a fever Of
the typhoid type and comes from filth.
The doctor says that it is no wonder hogs
die, wherever he found hogs in pens, the
pens were nasty, never cleaned; and if
they were not pens, the hogs were kept in
nasty fields, and in all cases fed on sour
grass or clover, sour slops, and allowed to
roll in stagnant, dead, filthy pools, and
many of them are fed in these filthy cess