Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1915-09-09

ana the uuueT OF the COW, uTylnR DOtn
with clean cloth before milking.
About 100 feet from the back door
was the toilet, equipped with an ordi-
nary earth pit. He had always thought
it was fairly well kept. Now it didn't
satisfy him. He moved it back another
100 feet and filled up the old vault
after covering its contents with solu-
ton of one pound OF the lime chloride
dissolved in 5 gallons of water. He
turned the privy 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 $l.00. 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 6x8 inches
and screened them with l6-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-
pendicular, and would always fall shut.
When he completed this, he had re-
ceptacle which was fly proof He pro-
vided in one corner of the privy keg
of finely powdered ashes, and with
ii a pint can, so that after each use of
the toilet, the ashes might be used to
cover any excreta. This kept down OBJ
noxous odor and rendered contents
unobjectionable when the can had to be
emptied Through the opening in the
back the bucket was removed once
aVcekb, covered with lid, carried to
nearby field and contents buried. All
this cost him $500 and little labor
And his wife said the getting rid of
the flies at the kitchen door was worth
it and more.
1t has been a 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
zee why you told me all you did 2
,ear ago. You've practically ruined
your business as far as my family is
We haven't been so well
n years. And, too your advice has
made me money otherwise My wife
ellis me she has mighty little trouble
low with her milk and cream souring
md the butter never gets strong. We
ret better prices for milk products than
my of the farmers out my way. And
ince I've studied flies and their ways
can't stand one in the house. What's
more we aren't bothered with them.
III the improving | did cost me whole
ot less than it did to put lightning rods
n the house fifteen years ago, and |
ont know why | put them on then.
Jobody was ever killed by lightning
I this community, but think of those
Tho have died from typhoid fever, and
ow easily they could have been pre-
ented.
"Now, what we need is a man like
on, paid by this county, enough that
on don't have to put in your time
uring disease, but to make it your bust
ess to go around and tell people, as
Oh did me, how they can keep from
citing sick. Will you take the job if
persuade the commissioners to make
worth while to your"
Perhaps" said the doctor, "but there
re enough left who will not do as you
id, to make it worth more to keep up
ractice than your county will pay me-"
And the thinking farmer hasn't been
bic to get enough of his brother farm