330 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ware sewer-pipe, to be conveyed to the place for its final 

 disposal. 



That all excreta and kitchen-water should be promptly 

 removed from the vicinity of the house in such a manner as 

 to prevent contamination of earth, air, and water, is apparent 

 to every one. 



How this can best be accomplished without creating a 

 dangerous nuisance depends on such varied local considera- 

 tions, that it is evident that no one method can be applied to 

 all places. 



The safest and most efficient system is that of water-car- 

 riage, when carefully arranged and thoroughly constructed, 

 discharging through impervious pipes into a well-built public 

 sewer. 



In rural neighborhoods, and for isolated houses, this is 

 impossible ; and some other means for the disposal of the 

 sewage must be devised. Some resort to the dangerous cess- 

 pool, or filth-storehouse : others pour it into the nearest 

 brook or water course, or else allow it to flow over the sur- 

 face of a side-hill at some distance from the house. All 

 these methods are disagreeable, objectionable, and often dan- 

 gerous. 



The most perfect device yet invented is that of intermit- 

 tent subsoil filtration with Field's Patent Flush Tank, as 

 improved by Col. E. G. Waring, jun., of Newport, a distin- 

 guished sanitary engineer, and described in his work on the 

 " Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns," and applied by 

 him to dispose of the sewage of the town of Lenox, that of 

 the prison for women at Sherborn, and that of many private 

 houses. 



Another excellent method of disposing of the excreta is 

 by the liberal use of dry earth, and its frequent removal. 

 The modern earth-closet, the invention of the Rev. William 

 Moule, is one form of this system. 



The sanitary essentials discussed in this essay apply to 

 both barn and house. No farmer can neglect them, and 

 secure the highest attainable degree of health and comfort 

 to, and profit from, his stock. 



Pure air, pure water, cleanliness, with good food and 

 gentle, kind care, are essential to the success of the dairy 

 farmer who would secure the largest possible product of rich, 



