The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1919-01-10
FOUR UTILITIES
NEEDED ON farm
Good Water Is One of Prime
Essentials for Safe and
Comfortable Living.
LIGHTING ALSO NECESSARY
Surface and Underground Drainage
Should Be Considered in Locating
Wells to Avoid Contamination
Mood Lot Desirable.

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 proce-
dure is haphazard, if the parts are not
correlated there is neither economy
In the construction nor satisfaction in
the operation of the plant.
When locating the well, the direc-
ton of surface and underground drain
age should be considered, to the end
that the water supply may not be con-
taminated by the sink drain, cesspool,
or other sources of filth. The unused
water from a spring or flowing we'll
may be made valuable if brought to q
watering trough, cooling tank, fish
pond, or swimming pool, or harvested
as ice. A saving may be effected by
laying two lines of pipe in one trench.
The engine which drives the pump
may operate other useful appliances,
such as dynamo, saw, washing ma
chine, cream separator, or churn.
A notable example of home-planned
utilities is found upon farm in north
ern Utah. By personal planning and
hard work, the owner of this farm
gradually has equipped his house with
a pressure water system, laundry
containing a power washing machine,
wringer, mangle, and drying machine,
a heating plant, electric lights, electric
range, electric heaters for emergency
use in chambers, and a vacuum clean
ing system.
Sanitary Farm Water Supply.
Observation indicates that on the
average three out OF four farm wells
are located within rs feet of the back
door of the house and in the direction
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
of barnyards, pig pens, pas
lures, fortified fields, sink drains, |
privies, cesspools and house yards rem
dered insanitary by chickens, Stops,
garbage, and other filth. Too fire.
1uently the leach from these or other
ground water moves with greater or
less directness to wells and springs,
seriously fmpairing the water supply
~ organic impurity or grossly poison
ng II with human sewage
Among other ways by which surface
waters and open or poorly covered
wells and springs are contaminated or
ecatve noxious substances are: Sur
acc wash from roads, ranges, or the
'ther sources of filth above mentioned
oddly entry of stock and poultry or
heir droppings; filth from the shoes
f careless farm hands and children I; J
lrippings from the dipper or bucket !
landed by carriers of disease; dust
nd leaves from the air; and entry Of I
vorms, bugs, spiders, toads, frogs.
nice, snakes, cats, or other animal
fe, which through death and decom-
osition may impart to the water dis
greeable odor and taste and perhaps
lore serious characteristics.
Deterioration of water may be due. I
> still other causes that make 1t I'M
'holesome but not, SO far as known, I
estructive of health. Among such are !
nusual dissolving of mineral salts !
rom the earth, washings from clay =
nat produce milky appearances dis
Dlaration from mineral or vegetable
latter, admixture Of mineral or vege- Z
.hIe oils. ABSORPTION Of Offensive