The Holbrook news., 1911-11-24

Many have been deterred from hay ing bathrooms, etc. because of lack of a way to dispose of the sewage. A few have water systems installed, and the waste has been run into streams or old-fashioned cesspools, which are dangerous things unless very far re- moved from the water supply. A proper cesspool is the best and cheap est method of disposing of the sewage from the farm home. Do not be scared out because some scientific fellow has called what you want an anaerobic tank or a septic tank. It is really nothing nut a plain, ordinary cesspool that does not "cess," writes Dr. B. M. Santee of New York In the New England Homestead. Anyone who is able to pile one stone above another can make one. It is a tank made tight, so the liquids are held un- til the fecal matter Is converted into liquids or gases by the growth of bacteria that all fecal matter contains.
 It should be large enough to hold all of the sewage that accumulates in a day from the home. It should be made longer than wide. One should never be made less than six feet long by three feet deep and three feet wide. This is large enough for fam fly of six grown people. Add one foot to the length for each additional person. The secret of success lies in the way that the sewage goes in and how the clear water comes out. The oR kHa eA@ Ao a level of the point where the sewer pipe leaves the cellar. AS the inlet pipe enters one end of the tank, 1t should have an elbow that turns down to within IS inches of the bottom. This pipe should be four inches in diameter and have tight joints. The fall in 1t should be not less than one fourth inch to the foot.
 The outlet pipe should dip down, so that the inner end is 12 inches below the top of the tank, and the outer end should be only about one inch below the top of the tank. This tank may be located anywhere outside of the cellar wall where the fall may be had. The water from it has to be run into a ose-jointed pipe about eight feet long for each person in the family, unless the soil be heavy clay, when the length should be doubled. It should be laid in ditch 12 inches deep. This pipe should at least be three inches in diameter, and larger is better; 1t should have a fall of about 1-32 of an inch to the foot, and may be located anywhere the soil is loose. A vegetable garden or lawn is ideal for it. It should be connect ed with the overflow pipe by tight jointed sewer pipe that has fall of not less than 1-16 inch to the foot.
 The tank, when finished. should be tightly covered, without ventilation When it Is working right there will be a green scum on the surface of the Iuuids. It does not freeze in winter because heat is generated in the de composition, and the water that is constantly being emptied into 1t Is far above the freezing point. This sys- tenn is not an experiment.; 1t has been successfully used for many years.
 Provide a load of field stone, not too large, a load of gravel, not too coarse, five sacks of cement and a box the right length for the family three feet wide and three feet long. with no bottom, and tile according to the distance away from the house. Dig a pit at least four feet deep, four feet four inches wide and 16 inches longer than the box. The depth should vary according to length of fall be- tween the house and the disposal