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HANDY-BOOK OP HUSBANDRY. 



MOULE S PATENT EARTH CLOSET- 

 CLOSETS. 



-EARTH VS. WATER FOR 



" Our readers having read the article on Earth Closets, pub- 

 "lished on page 313, vol. xx., of the Scientific American^ will be 

 " prepared to duly appreciate the value of the invention we this 

 " week present to their consideration. 



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*' In that article we called attention to the enormous waste 

 " attendant upon the present general system of sewerage in large 

 " cities, to the contamination of waters by the discharge of sewage 

 *' into them, to the danger to the public, arising from the saturation 

 "of soil with fecal matter in the immediate ^icinity of dwellings, 

 " to the intolerable nuisance arising from water closets on shipboard, 

 " and to the complete remedy for all these evils afforded in the 

 " earth closet, if properly constructed. 



