CHAPTER XXXXI. 
WATER AND ICE SUPPLY. 
WATER SUPPLY 
Importance of Pure Water. A great deal of disease 
in farm homes is directly traceable to infected water. 
Typhoid fever especially is so frequently caused by pol- 
luted well water that physicians at once look to this as 
the probable cause wherever this disease is found to ex- 
ist. 
Where wells infected with disease germs happen to ex- 
ist on dairy farms that supply milk to neighboring cities, 
disease is not limited to the dairyman’s own family, but 
may be spread along the entire milk route. Many typhoid 
fever epidemics have been positively traced to milk which 
has become infected through water containing the disease 
germs. Nowhere is pure water so important, therefore, 
as upon dairy farms. 
The disease germs usually find their way into the milk 
through milk vessels which have been washed with in- 
fected water. The use of such water for washing cows’ 
udders previous to milking may also be the means of in- 
fecting the milk supply. 
Location of Well. The most satisfactory location for 
the well is at the dairy house where the coldest water is 
required and where it will be most convenient. Here the 
water for both the dairy, the home, and the stock can be 
pumped with the dairy engine. Further, the well, like 
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