The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-12
Making the Farm Surroundings
More Sanitary Not a Hard Task

sanitation as vigorously as the health
officers in the cities do.
On the farm the fly must be swat
ted with the same determination as it
is swatted in the city. and the war
waged against this carrier of filthy and
loathsome disease germs should not be
confined solely to the summer season.
1t is at this time of year that We are
more apt to throw out refuse from
the kitchen than we are during the
summer months. And refuse, which
we throw out now because we don't
like to get any farther away from the
house than really necessary. will.
when the warm weather comes pro-
vide a Matching place for the larva Of
the dreaded fly.
When we swat fly We put an end
to that particular fly and, no doubt,
prevent the production of many more;
but when we destroy the Matching
places we accomplish more.
1t is we'll to keep in mind that all
decaying animal and vegetable mat
ter furnishes the best kind of breed
ing places for the fly that takes pleas
ure in washing its feet and wipins
them around food that goes into our
stomachs.
There is the little mosquito too. who
needs attention.
OF course, he Is not very annoying
at this time of year, but his day will
be here soon enough. We can take a
little precaution now, however, toward
making the mosquito family less num-
erous next summer.
This can be done by taking advan-
take of tho nice days during the win
ter to destroy the breeding places.
Go over every square foot of the
ground within a radius of hundred
, >erds of the dwelling house and pick
u all of the tin cans, old shoes, ct
60 era. Any of these that will hold
~ ter for ten consecutive days affords
> Matching place for the pesky buzzers.
The mosquito, so 1t is claimed is
~ .dom found except near human habi-
.ations. From this fact we can draw
! the conclusion that there must be
! something around the surroundings of
human beings which is conducive to
luC CAAoSCASC u SAlS AAISoANC.
Mosquitoes spread disease only by
carrying the disease germs from some.
one who has the dreaded disease to
the person where the mosquito takes
his claim and begins drilling. The mos
quito does not have the disease germs
in its systems as is often imagined j;
it must get the germs from the dis.
ease infected victim.
This fact, however, should not check
our war on this annOyer.
| The water supply for drinking pur'
poses should be given attention, be-
cause typhoid fever is generally due to
impure water. The water is usually
rendered impure by reason OF an open
privy. 1t is by surface wash and by
seepage underground that the impuri
ties from the privies enter the wells
Flies also often carry the germs OF
the disease.
! What we have mentioned here is
well worth considering. and there is
much more that could be said on this
subject of lettering the sanitary con
ditions of the farm home; however, we
believe that we have said enough fol
this time. 1t is our purpose to say
something a little later about othel
things that can be done to make the
farm home the most healthful place
there is in which to live.
Some of us has said that we cannot
afford the loss suffered by the farm
folks by reason of the lack of santa
ton in the farm home. The farm
must grow it's own labor, and that o.
tai and moral.
Seattle is grading it's steep hills