The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-07-21

ton, yet DIR. Loring's address to tn,
National Agricultural Association allow
that the wheat crop of France -olt
France-"not larger than the bigges
State in the Union, equals our own.
Our wheat, it may be remembered, il
largely grown by depicting virgin soil
while the wheat of France is necessarily
taken by culture from land used for ages
to agricultural processes. The one i
like butchering droves of bisons for meat
compared with the slow and kindly pro
cess of herdsmen and shepherds. W.
need not thank the orators who misrep-
resent the quality of our prosperity. The
same bogus craftsmanship which ran us
into a debt that only a war could settle,
will blind us, if it can, to what we owe
the soil we waste.
BREAKING CoLTs.-After being prop
erly halter-broken in all kindness and
strength, your colt needs TO chew the bit
and learn the curb of the peoples will,
as a rising politician needs to. This
lesson must be learned so thoroughly as
never to be forgotten. Not of an indig-
nifty, mind you, but in connection with
joyful oats and tid-bits of grass, apples,
berries and any sweet thing the
animal may be fond of, with liberties and
the society of faithful and just men. A
colt requires months, and a statesman
may well have years of this sort of thing
before much but good behavior is ex
pected of him. Let the colt be led at
the tail of a cart behind his mother, and
among friends, as business occasions
offer. There is good in hitching him
once in a while to a springy birch longer
than he wants to stand. Patience comes
by a tustle with the impossible and a
reasonable hope of dinner time. Lead
ing In harness, by an accustomed hand,
is a good primary road lesson for a colt,
teaching him how to stop and back or
turn and start handsomely. One master
OF horse that 1 know would always ac-
custom his colts to a loose whifle-tree,
wrapped in rags at their breeching,
before ever trying a regular hitch to
shafts or pole. Some day the colt must
be harnessed and driven till he is tired
preferable beside his mother or a trusty
companion, where his chief business is
his exercise, and a daily lesson of a short
duration should be continued for a fort
night at q stretch. In old times, the
old-style farmer would pillow, harrow and
bush his rye and buckwheat ground un-
der the head of breaking colts, and no
time produced more trusty horses for all
work. Some course of this kind, with
variations, may do in places now.
SOURCES OF DISEASE ON THE FARM
Since the time the song of "The Old
Oaken Bucket" was written, and per-
haps for centuries before-peeple have
believed that the open well as found in
the vicinity of most farm-houses sup
piled water "the purest and sweetest
that nature car yield" 1t is true that
nearly all natures springs and many
wells afford excellent water for drinking
and culinary purposes. But it is also
true that q very large proportion of the
water consumed in this country is very
bad. 1t would not be tolerated for u D
plying the inhabitants of a large city,
In some cases it is taken from streams
that contain all sorts of vegetable and
animal impurities. In very many in
stances the water that falls from the
roofs of buildings is conveyed through
dirty troughs into wooden cisterns.
where it is stored for the use of the fam
lily. 1t contains all the impurities of the
air a well as those on the roof. in the
troughs, and in the cistern itself. What
is worse, it is constantly accommodating
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1t becomes worse the longer it is kept.
No filter, however good, can remove all
the foreign substances it contains. 1t
has q disagreeable color, flavor, and
smell. One long accustomed to the use
of the water may not notice them, but
they are apparent to persons who have
been In the habit of using water that is
comparatively pure. Most wells that
afford excellent drinking water are so
carelessly managed that they become
reservoirs of all kinds of filth. Vegeta-
BILE matter of various sorts flows into
them and becomes decomposed. Small
animals and various sorts of vermin fall
In the wells and die, and as their decom-
position is slow, their presence is not
noticed for many months. When a farm
well Is cleaned out, the beholder is gen.
orally nauseated at the masses of corrup-
ton he sees taken from it. Many wells
are SO situated that the filth of the barn
yard, the pig-sty, and even the privy
finds its way to them. The liquid from
these places must flow somewhere, and
as the well is the nearest outlet for drain
age, it passes into it through the porous
soil. Sometimes surface water, after
heavy rains, flows into wells.
DRAINAGE.-SOme surface
OF open and underground drains are
usually constructed on farms for the
purpose of rendering soil more suitable
for the production of crops. But it is ex-
tremely rare to find any drainage system
undertaken with a view of sanitary adj
vantages. The water that flows from
fields improved for cultivation is often
allowed to accumulate in pools within a
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nothing resembling q sewer in connec-
ticn with the house or the lot on which
it stands. The water from the sink as
that in which the family washing is
done, and all hat employed in culinary
operations, generally find its way to the
soil about the house. This soil becomes
saturated with filth. IT. becomes, full
of the seeds of disease, which are ready
to terminate as soon as the conditions
are favorable. During the heat of sum-
mer. deadly vapors arise from it which
are likely to pervade every room in the
dwelling occupied by the family. In
every direction are pools from which
water only passes by the process of evap-
Grafton. There are also sluggish streams
that have no perceptible current, except
when the water is high ALI these are
nurseries of malaria.
The PURITY OF COUNTRY AIR.-The
purity of the air in the country. like that
Of the water, is generally greatly over
estimated. Many of the bad odors
are disguised by the perfumes of apple
and clover blossoms and numerous
wild flowers. The vilest odors are con-
stantly arising from heaps, from
the yards of barns and stables, and the
Enclosures were swine and poultry are
kept. Animals and fowls chat die on
farms, in the highways, or n land that is
not inclosed frequently remain for weeks
without being buried, for the reason that
there is noperson employed to look after
and dispose of them. Many vegetables
like cabbages, potatoes, and fruits are
left to decompose on the ground. The
cellars under most farm-houses are man
u~facturers of poisonous vapors which as