1910 . 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
977 
SEWAGE DISPOSAL. 
Noting what you say in Hope Farm 
Notes about sewage disposal, I will de¬ 
scribe how I have disposed of mine, and 
the plant has been in operation five years, 
requiring no cleaning out or attention 
whatever, and I believe it will run 50 
years. If you have fall enough in any 
direction from your house for say 75 
feet, it is “dead easy” and comparatively 
inexpensive. My house is watered by a 
hydraulic ram, and I have “water to 
burn,” besides supplying all needs of 
house, barn and garden. I run my sew¬ 
age off as follows: First an excavation 
12x5xG feet (deep) with two cross por¬ 
tions, walls and partitions of concrete, 
also floor. Sewage enters at top, and is 
sent out at bottom into 6 -inch pipe, see 
diagram. The disposal field is of horse- 
SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLAN. Fig. 423. 
shoe pipe, three feet underground. Com¬ 
partment A receives the sewage; what 
you call solids float on top and are prac¬ 
tically liquefied by bacteria. A scum 
forms on top and the water and reduced 
solids go from under this through the 
opening to compartment B; here the pro¬ 
cess is completed and what goes through 
the pipe into C is apparently clear water. 
In the lowest point of this compartment 
is placed a siphon that empties it as fast 
as filled into the six-inch pipe, from 
whence it is distributed through the 
smaller pines. Connected with this 
siphon is a safety pipe (six-inch) rising- 
six inches above the top of siphon to 
carry off water in case siphon does not 
work. I think the onlj'- possible occasion 
for cleaning would be in first compart¬ 
ment, where sand, or small objects of too 
much weight to go out with the water 
will in time accumulate. To provide for 
this in covering I used a slate slab two 
inches thick, 3x3, that can be lifted by 
taking off soil on it. The rest is all 
covered solid with six-inch reinforced 
concrete and then with a mound of soil. 
In compartment B I put a two-inch vent 
pipe that the place would not be air 
bound. At first this gave off a slight 
odor, but none since. I think the scum 
on top of water holds all odors. A New 
York sewage disposal company wanted to 
put this in for me for $350. Doing the 
work with my own men it cost me about 
$150. I estimated this outfit was large 
enough for 50 people. We can trace our 
lines of pipe by the luxuriant growth of 
grass above them. frank hyde. 
New York. 
Summer Itch. 
I have a horse which in Summer has 
lumps on its hide; soon a spot will be 
without hair. I got one pint of Fowler’s 
solution of arsenic and gave it, kept all 
spots greased daily with lard and sulphur, 
all to no purpose. In the Winter all was 
smooth, but each Summer the trouble re¬ 
turns. This Summer it was again affected, 
and hair came off. Having some louse ex¬ 
terminator I bought a fly sprayer and used 
the louse exterminator to keep off flies. 
There are not so many of the lumps and 
bare spots as in former years, it does not 
rub the tail and does not rub trees when 
out as it did. Was that Summer eczema 
caused by a parasite 2 c. 
This is a form of Summer eczema not 
due to a parasite. The animal should be 
< lipped in Spring and then fed lightly and 
without corn. Some horses will take the 
itch if fed green grass. Others have it if 
fed corn in Summer. Mixing an ounce or 
so of glauber salts in the drinking water 
once or twice daily and giving a couple of 
teaspoonfuls of flowers of sulphur in the 
feed at night often tends to stop the irri¬ 
tation. Lathe affected, itching parts as re¬ 
quired with a mixture of one dram each of 
carbolic acid and dilute sulphuric acid in a 
pint of water, or sometimes a creamy mix¬ 
ture of flowers of sulphur and raw linseed 
oil proves effective. a . s . a. 
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