Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-09-11

About 100 feet from the back door
was the toilet, equipped with an ordi-
nary earth pit He had always thought
it fairly well kept Now it didn't
100 feet and filled up the old vault
after covering its contents with so1u-
ton of one pound of the lime chloride
dissolved in 5 gallons of water. He
turned the pr1vy on one side and put in
a floor under the seat with groove and
tongue boards so flies could not enter.
He went to town and bought an gal
Ion galvanized-iron garbage can with
lid and handle, at a cost of $1.0O. He
fixed a door at the back of the privy
so that, after setting up, the can would
set on the floor under the seat, the top
of the can with lid removed, of course)
coming within three or four inches of
the top of the seat, thus allowing free
ventilation Also at each end of the
seat he made apertures of ox8 inches
and screened them with 16-mesh screen.
Then he put lid on the opening in
the seat with block behind it so that
the lid would not go back to a per-
pendicu1ar, and would always fall shut.
When he completed this, he had a re-
ceptacle which was fly proof He pro-
vided in one corner of the privy a keg
of finely powdered ashes, and with
it pint can, so that after each use of
the toilet, the ashes might be used to
cover any excreta. This kept down OBJ
noxious odor and rendered contents
unobjectionab1e when the can had to be
emptied. Through the opening in the
back the bucket was removed once
zVceky, covered with lid carried to
nearby field and contents buried. All
this cost him 500 and a little labor.
And his wife said the getting rid of
the flies at the kitchen door was worth
it and more.
1t has been year or more since he
did these things He met the doctor
again the other day, and here is his
story to the medical man:
Doctor, for the life of me, can't
year ago. You've practically ruined
your business as far as my family is
concerned. We haven't been so we'll
in years And, too, your advice has
made me money otherwise. My wife
tells me she has mighty little trouble
now with her milk and cream souring
and the butter never gets strong. We
get better prices for milk products than
any of the farmers out my way. And
since I've studied flies and their ways
l can't stand one in the house. What's
more we aren't bothered with them.
All the improving l did cost me whole
lot less than it did to put lightning rods
on the house fifteen years ago, and |
don't know why | put them on then.
Nobody was ever killed by lightning
in this community but think of those
who have died from typhoid fever, and
how easily they could have been pre-
vented
Now, what we need is a man like
you, paid by this county, enough that
you don't have to put in your time
curing disease, but to make it your bust
ness to go around and tell people, as
you did me, how they can keep from
getting sick Will you take the job if
1 persuade the commissioners to make
it worth while to you?"
Perhaps" said the doctor, but there
are enough left who will not do as you
did, to make it worth more to keep up
practice than your county will pay me-"
And the thinking farmer hasn't been
able to get enough of his brother farm