The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-07-19


use ia made of the manure from the
horse stable iG makes good absorbing
material in the COW stable drops. 1t
would seem that nothing more need be
said concerning this waste, but so long
as one cannot drive half dozen miles
through a farming section without
seeing farms where it is constantly 60
ing on, I suppose LINE upon line" will
be in order.
| sKWAGE WASTE UPON THE FARM HOW
TO PREVENT IT.
presume not one farm in fifty has
facilities for properly saving and Util
| iEing the sewage from the farm build
ings. The waste waters are either con.
Quoted into some nearby stream or
| some rRvine where the fer tiIizjng eIe-
ments are entirely wasted, and often
the poisonous gases arising therefrom
are fruitful sources OF sickness in the
family. We had long years of expert
ence In this line attempting TO conduct
waste water from the house in drairs.
These were constTu3 ted of stone, plank,
&c, but there was endless trouble with
their filing and necessitating their be
ing dug up and replaced.
We resolved when we built a new
house we would have drainage if moth
ing else. The house eits on an eIeva
ton of some fifteen feet above the
meadow land below. Iron pipes were
put in to carry all waste from water
closets, sinks, dairy room, s. ,. in fact,
every particle Of waste water, includ
ing overflow, is conducted through
these waste pipes to a main glazed
sewer pipe outside, and this is laid
deep and joints cemented a distance
of $50 feet from the house, frC m whence
it ls conducted by small irrigating
bitches over several acres Of meadow.
TIE eff CT in growth Of grass is mar
velous. The meadow is too fl 1t co ob
tain best results, but tons Of hay are
cut yearly, produced by this sewage
alone. There are hundreds of farm
houses situated on high land with slop-
ing fields below, that could be made
like the valley of the Nile, by simply
adopting thorough system of sewer
drainage, where now nearly every.
thing is lost.
No doubt some one will say the ex
pense is greater. than they can afford
Let US see. once knew a family
where such system could have been
put in, and the sewage conducted over
a large sloping field, and from my own
experience am positive the increase
in the hay crop would have paid the
cost every year. But what did they
do9 During the winter the slop waters
from the house were carried few feet
from the back door, and thrown upon
the chipyard. OF course they disap
peared from sight at once, but when
warm days came next GUNNER, one
member of the family after another
came down with typhoid fever. The
attending physician gave his opinion
that the poison germs came directly
from that polluted c1ipyard. Some
years ago I attended the funeral of a
bright little boy of some six summers,
stricken down with dread diphtheria
The officiating clergyman, as is his
custom, referred to the strange and
mysterious dispensRtiOn Of Prov vidence
ia removing the innocent little one.
Driving around the barn to find shel
ter for my team. what do you suppose
/ saw9 In the centre Of the barnysrd
was a pool Of stagaant, filthy water,
and scattered about the yard were ten
or dozen putrefying carcasses of
young calves, in all stages of decom-
position.
Talk about dispensation of Provi-
dence. Clearly Providence had no
the little boy took into his system the
deadly goisons that caused his death,
as it could be made. A most elegant
opport unity was here to conduct these
waters over large sloping meadow,
but instead they were not only allowed
to waste, but become dire city inatru-
mental in causing death in the family.
These are true life pictures, aud while
as dire results do not always follow,
the same waste is going on, on far too
many farms.-J D. Smith, Delaware
Co., N. Y.
Should farmers save garden seeds9
There are meny who do this from old
habit, or from the idea that it is al
ways economy not to pay out money
for what they can themselves produce.