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farmers and truckers, if you will not be warned for humanity's 

 sake, take heed and notice the conversation had between myself 

 and the groceryman. The price of the healthy berries was twice 

 that of the poor ones. If the good of mankind will not move you 

 to pity and a change of method, let your pockets plead with you. 

 Try the experiment, as tried at the ' Home on the Hillside," and 

 see if your wallets will not be considerably distended, and the lives 

 and health of yourselves and families preserved and lengthened. 



Yours Truly, C. E. EAKLEY. 



Such cities as Philadelphia, Pa., Syracuse, Elmira, and Bingham- 

 ton, in N. Y., Paterson, N. J., Wilmington, Del., and others we might 

 mention are situated on what are called river bottoms, and yet, so 

 far above high water mark, as to make drainage into rivers not 

 only easy, but perfect. "Whether, for the systems of sewerage al- 

 ready arranged, our methods could be substituted we cannot at 

 present decide, but have no doubt of its practicability. That the 

 municipal authorities of towns and cities thus located, could be in- 

 duced to make the change, is doubtful. In all portions of Europe, 

 beneath the dwellings in cities, towns and villages, on the grounds 

 of kings and nobility, and those of the peasant and the pauper, 

 the damps and decays generative of disease, bringing death be- 

 fore its time, are found. The same is relatively true of the older 

 cities of our own country. But younger cities and towns are in- 

 creasing in population, and new ones continually developing, and 

 with these at least, an effort should be made to obtain a pure water 

 supply. The fact is distressing and astonishing that such cities 

 as St. Paul, Detroit and thousands of others, developed and devel- 

 oping in different portions of our country, should have no provi- 

 sion made for conserving the rains and snows falling upon the 

 roofs of dwellings, barns, stables and other structures, or running 

 off from the lawns, gardens and grounds of the people. 



