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a water system is the supposed difficulty of disposing of 

 the drainage water. This is usually not a difficult problem. 

 The bathroom fixtures' and plumbing should ordinarily 





Fia. 197. Well-planted farm-yard. Trees at the sides, flowers in the corners 

 and about the house, open lawn. Contrast with Fig. 196 



be installed by a plumber. All the outside work may be 

 done with farm labor. The drain-pipe should extend 

 twenty to one hundred feet from the house, and should 

 be made of four-inch tile with all joints closed by cement. 

 This pipe may discharge into a cesspool that is merely a 

 hole in the ground and that is walled with stone laid without 

 mortar. Such an arrangement is satisfactory if the ground 

 is very porous, and if no wells are within any possible 

 range of contamination. The sewage should not be 

 emptied directly into streams or ponds, 



