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ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE 



SANITATION 



Healthfulness of the Home. — The first thing to be con- 

 sidered about a home is its healthfulness. No matter how 

 beautiful, attractive and comfortable a house may be, if 

 it is not a healthful place, no one would desire to live in it. 

 One who is building a new house may select a site which 

 will give drainage, ventilation and plenty of sunshine. One 



Figure 134. — A farm home so situated as to afford good drainage. Shade trees 

 are an excellent addition to a home, but should not be so close or so thick as 

 to prevent a good circulation of air and the entrance of sunshine to the rooms. 



who is bujdng a farm, expecting to live in the house already 

 upon it, would do well to consider the healthfulness of 

 the situation as well as the fertility of the soil. Many who 

 find themselves in unhealthful homes, may often, with but 

 little labor and expense, make the place quite as healthful 

 as any they might have selected. 



Drainage about the Home. — The healthfulness of a farm 

 home depends first of all upon drainage. The ground should 

 slope from the house, so that the cellar and yard may be 

 dry. The well should be so situated that no surface water, 

 or seepage from house, barn or any other building, can 

 possibly get into it. It is of the greatest importance to the 

 health of all in the home that the drinking water be kept 



