Williston graphic., 1918-12-26

GRAPHIC farm BUREAU
GOOD WATER SYSTEM
A good water supply, complete
sewage-disposal plant, and effective
heating and lighting systems consti-
tute the four prime utilities of the
farm home, the foundations Of safe,
comfortable living. To secure these
ends in greatest measure, thought
! and planning are necessary. If the
procedure is haphazard, if the parts
are not correlated, there is neither
economy in the construction nor sat-
isfaction in the operation of the plant
When locating the we'll, the direc-
ton Of surface and underground
drainage should be considered, to the
end that the water supply may not
be contaminated by the sink drain,
cesspool, or other sources of filth. The
unused water from a spring or flow
ing we'll may be made valuable If
brot to a watering trough, cooling
tank, fish pond, or swimming pool, or
harvested as ice. A saving may be
effected bya laying two lines of pipe
in one trench. The engine which
drives the pump may orc"cct2 c'he"
useful appliances, such as dynamo
saw, washing machine, cream sep
notable. eSaInple -ef home-plan-
med Utilities IS found upon farm in
iiNorthern Utah. BY personal planning
Eand hard work, the owner of this
farm gradually has equipped his
house with pressure water system,
Ia laundry containing "a Hpwer wash.
ing. machine, wringer, naamgfe,~ and
drying machine, heating plant, cleo
tric lights, electric, range, electric
| heaters for emergency use in cham
bers, and q vacuum cleaning system.
Sanitary Farm Water Supply
Observation indicates that on the
average three out of four farm wells
are locator within IS: feet of tie hack
door of the house and in the direc-
ton of the barn. That convenience
and first cost-not safety-have been
the deciding factors in thousands of
such locations is fact made evident
BY the proximity Of barnyards, pig
Epines, pastures, fertilized fields, sink
drains, privies, cesspools, and house
yards rendered insanitary by chick
ems, slops, garbage. and other filth.
Too frequently the leach from these
or other sources of filth, after join
ing the ground water, moves with
greater or less directness to wells
and springs, seriously impairing the
water supply by organic impurity or
grossly poisoning it with human
sewage. .@ @
Among other ways by which sur
face waters and open or poorly COW
cred wells and springs are contain
mated or receive noxious substances
are: Surface wash from roads,
ranges, or the other sources of filth
above mentioned; bodily entry Of
stock and poultry or their droppings;
filth from the shoes of careless farm
hands and children; drippings from
the dipper or bucket handled by car
riers Of disease; dust and leaves from
the air; and entry of worms, bugs,
spiders toads, frogs, mice, snakes,
cats, or other animal life, which thru
death and decomposition may impart
to the water disagreeable odor and
taste and perhaps more serious char
Eacteristics. ~,@%
E Deterioration Of water may be due
to still other causes that make 1t un-
wholesome but not. so far as known,
destructive of heath. Among such are
unusual dissolviiig of mineral salts
from the earth, washings from clay
that produce a milky appearance, dis
coloration from mineral or vegetable
matter, admixture of mineral OF vege-
table oils, absorption of offensixe
gases, low forms Of animal life, min
ute plant growths often productive OF
!. right-colored, fibrous masses and
scums, and especially when water is
of peaty or swampy origin, impreg-
nation with iron. In short, investi-
cations indicate that only small
minority of farm water supplies can
be classed as unqualifedly safe and
desirable.
Diseases From Poor Water
Among the ailments caused or in
Auenced by contaminated water, are
typhoid fever, tuberculosis, hook
worm disease, cholera, dysentery and
diarrhea, and certain obscure mall
aides that may be traced eventually
to the poisonous effects of drainage
from human wastes. Frequently
home or village supplied with water
from q mountain spring or canyon is
center of goiter, although the pos
sible relationship of such water to
this disease has not been proved con-
clusively. :.zf5. s.s ss..5. as,,.. -. :
Among ailments Of live stock, hog
cholera, anthrax, and foot-and-mouth
disease are spread by moving water:
Hence sick animals should not have
access to streams, and dead animals
should not be left exposed in fields OF
buried where drainage may carry in-
fection to streamsfand water supplies.
Ones duty to himself and neighbors
should obligate him to confine all sick