Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-25
SOME GOOD ADVICE.
Perley Goddard Drops Timely
Hints on Sanitary Plans.
Interesting Grange Meeting at Grafton
Brings Out Some Good ldeas-Other
News Notes.

Grafton, March 24.-At the meeting of
the Grafton Grange, last evening, Cat
tie Commissioner Perley Goddard read
a paper in answer to "Are the sanitary
conditions of our farms what they
should be? If not, how can they be inn
proved?" a part of which was as fol-
lows The farm is for man and not man
for the farm, and whatever is detrimen-
tai to his health or the health of his
family should be eliminated. Much de-
pends upon the sanitary conditions Of
the farm not only to those who occupy
them, but also to those VINO live in the
cities for all depend upon the products
of the soil, whether that product Is sup
piled in the form Of milk, cereal. Yeget-
able, or animal flesh,
If in the form of milk, Eluch depends
upon the conditions and surroundings
where the milk is produced. It the sta
BILE is dark i'll ventilated, the excre-
ments allowed to remain on the stable
floor for "a hours, the milking utensils
rinsed out in the same trough where the
cattle drink and allowed 20 drain on a
bench behind the COWS till used again,
it would not be strange if milk from
such a dairy contained the germs of
typhoid fever. A certain dairyman
supplied 145 families, and of this num-
ber 70 contracted the disease, and it
was traced to using impure water in
washing the milk pals.
Too much care cannot be exercised in
regard to the water supply, either for
the family or for the animals that fur
nish milk. The source Of supply should
be well or spring that is on an eleva-
ton above any of the farm buildings I
can point to a case where the well is
in the barn cellar, the COWS are kept in
this cellar and watered from this well.
Hogs were there also, and 1 was not
surprised when the owner told me that
he had lost 10 hogs by cholera.
The thousands Of city people who
flock every summer to our country
homes and bring with them large
amounts of money, should be protected
against the dangers of polluted water
and infected milk. The atmosphere
about the house should not be contain
mated by the foul air arising from the
sink drain, the piggery or the cess
pool
Sunlight is a great disinfectant. Barns
where animals are kept should be well
lighted. Very few are provided with
sufficient windows. Owners of cattle do
not seem to realize that sunlight is just
as essential to the health of animal life
as it is to plant life. Ventilation is an
other condition too often neglected.
Barns should have a cupola without
windows, that the foul air may escape
and fresh air take its place. 1t is rec
commended by some that the cattle be
kept in barn separate from the hay
and other fodder, and when it is remen-
bered that full grown animal breathes
one thousand cubic feet of air each hour,
the feasibility of this plan is readily
seen.
Drainage is another condition far too
often neglected. Buildings should be
sufficiently elevated so that no water
can find it's way into the cellar. All
buildings should be supplied with eve
troughs and conductors, so that the rain
water may be carried off and not al
lowed to penetrate the soil and find it's
way into the well or cellar.
A general discussion was in order af-
ter the reading of the paper Vocal Sc
lections were rendered by Miss Flora
Frost
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