The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-07

does not require but little more labor
70 keen an earth floor in good
condition, than is required to keep the
nIank door in repair. The filth which
IF necessity is bound to accumulate I'M
der the plank floors cannot but prove a
nrolific breeding of disease. While, en-
rhe other hand. the earth floor, if pro-
nerly attended to, does not afford such
= barbinger for the secretion of filth
the very idea of its being secreted is the
only reason the glaring objection is so
often overlooked. AS an evidence of the
suneriority of the earth floor over that
of the plank floor, the reader is cited to
the fact that at many of the stock ex-
changes and livery stables where horses
are kept for sale or trade, a part of the
floors are nicely and purposely pre-
pared for the improvement of the con-
dirion of horses that have been badly
Injured in the feet, limbs and shoulders.
What is the remedy these men employ
and RELY onP The earth floor that has
sto the test OF all ages.-EE.
Farmers, read this carefully and ar
range to drain the wet places on your
land. Experiment has shown that for
the best welfare of crops soil should
not be more than from one-tenth to one
third full of water; that is to say, most
of the larger spaces between the solid
particles are empty OF any thing except
air. This healthy condition sometimes
comes about of itself, when an open
subsoil lets the surplus water run away
frrelv from the surface; but usually
artificial drainage is necessary to secure
it One of the most marked good
effect of this under drainage, whether
natural or ar ificial, is the improve
ment of the temperature of the
soil. If this surplus water can
not pass off below in due time, it must
be evaporated into the air, at the newt
able cost of great quantity of heat
which would otherwise have served to
warm the soil; wet soil, like wet per-
son coming out of bath, is cold. Inc
less heat a soil must lose in this way
the greater will be its reserve stock.
USEFUL not only for the production of
crops, but also for their protection
against cold. The suns rays do not
warm the soil and the rocks; these then
throw out or radiate this absorbed heat
into the air and warm 1t. The lateness
of a frost in any locality depends,
therefore, not q little on the
reserve supply of heat in
the SOIL and this again depends
largely on the freedom of the soil from
su o us water during the heated season /;
a well-dIained and properly dry soil will
not only give larger and better crop
than an undrained and wet soil, but its
crops will not suffer the harm from
early frosts that may ruin the harvest
Of undrained fields. Prof. Carpenter, of
the Michigan Agricultural College, says,
if three inch tile be used, the total cost
OF laying tile drains would be about so
cents per rod. All fiat level clay land
needs drainage, and even rolling land
if the subsoil is a tenacious clay. The
criterion for ascertaining whether any
lands need tile drainage is to see
what kind of vegetation grows on it,
and if you find aquatic plants grow
ing you need LOOK no further, but
take it as fact that that land needs
tile draining All land where water will
stand on the ground longer than twelve
hours after the heaviest rains needs
drainage, And when the draining costs
no more than estimated by Prof. Car
penter there is no excuse for allowing
cesspools, swamps and other wet places
to go unGrailed. There are both Pc
cuniary and sanitary reasons for drain
ing. and In counting the cost it viii not
do to overlook either. The sanitary
should have as strong 4 bearing in de-
terminiEg the advisabi ity of the under
taking as the pecuniaTy. but neither
must be overlooked En-.