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Sewage Disposal for the Country Home 
(Continued from page 36) 
What you need in this case are two 
dry wells about 3' in diameter and 5' 
deep, built of the local stone and 
laid without mortar. There should 
be no bottom, and the top can be 
roofed with logs covered by T of 
sod or earth. Locate these dry wells 
20' apart, the second a little down 
hill from the first, and connect 
them by a blind drain 2' below the sur¬ 
face of the ground. Both wells should 
be at least 100' from the camp, the 
nearest one connecting to your plumb¬ 
ing fixtures by a tight, carefully laid 
sewer line. This system, although not 
nearly as efficient as a well designed 
septic tank and disposal field, will give 
excellent service for a number of 
years, with an occasional cleaning of 
the well through which the sewage 
first passes. When eventually the sur¬ 
rounding soil is entirely clogged and 
no longer able to absorb the effluent, 
the old wells should be filled in with 
earth and two new ones constructed. 
These tanks, with the sewer and 
drain, should cost about $140. 
The Case of the Seashore Cottage 
The last case to consider is a cot¬ 
tage by the seashore. You, the owner, 
do not want a leaching cesspool, ow¬ 
ing to the proximity of your neigh¬ 
bors' houses and the danger to near¬ 
by wells. You have not land enough, 
however, to accommodate a regular 
tile disposal field. Besides that, your 
household averages only four or five 
persons. Consequently, the expense 
seems unreasonable. And you are 
perfectly right. If you have a heavy 
clay soil to contend with, a complete 
system might be the only sanitary al¬ 
ternative, but with the sandy gravel 
soil of the seashore there is a very 
efficient combination much less ex¬ 
pensive to construct. 
First comes the tank built of con¬ 
crete and located underground 50' or 
more from the house. It should be 
7 deep and about 6' long and 5' 
square. The manhole cover should 
be absolutely tight and the concrete 
walls of a rich mixture to insure the 
tanks being waterproof. As in the 
case of the larger septic tanks, both 
inlet and outlet pipes must be fitted 
with tees to avoid disturbing the sur¬ 
face of the sewage. 
From the tank toward the downhill 
side dig a trench 2' deep and 2' wide 
for a distance of 45'. If the property 
line interferes, the trench need not be 
straight, as long as it has a slight, 
even grade away from the tank. In 
the trench upon a gravel bed 9" deep 
lay 40' of 4" land tile connecting into 
the tank with 5' of sewer pipe. The 
land tile must be laid with open joints 
as described above, and the trench 
filled with gravel and sand. This 
tank, with the connecting sewer and 
drain, should not cost, under average 
conditons, more than $190. 
Although easy to construct and 
practical, even upon small pieces of 
property where the soil is porous, 
this arrangement combines the two 
essential factors of a disposal sys¬ 
tem. That is, the warm and dark 
tank provides an ideal place for the 
action of the anaerobic bacteria, 
which are active agents in the de- 
compositon of the organic matter in 
the sewage, and the tile drain which 
distributes the effluent near the sur¬ 
face of the ground makes possible the 
absorption and oxidation of the more 
liquid substances by the vegetation 
and action of the anaerobic bacteria. 
In this way Nature’s scavengers are 
turned to use, and the dangerous or¬ 
ganic compounds, broken up into 
their constituent parts, largely cease 
to be a menace to human health, a 
vital necessity in any home. 
Considering the Lilies 
(Continued from page 19) 
Note that it is early spraying, how¬ 
ever, as well as constant, that should 
be the practice; and the spraying of 
plants that are so healthy that it 
“seems foolish to do it.” When they 
are in less perfect condition than this 
at the time of applying the spray, 
the mischief is already done beyond 
repair. 
Some Other Good Kinds 
One of the most picturesque of all 
the lilies that we can have in the 
garden came out of China not so 
very many years ago, and is named 
for its discoverer, Dr. Henry. And 
though Lilium Henryi is still expen¬ 
sive enough to seem an extravagance, 
because there are not as many bulbs 
for sale as the market demands, it 
is so hardy and easily grown, and it 
multiplies so rapidly, that it is not 
really such. Of amazing strength 
and vigor, it grows as high as one’s 
head, and a single bulb not infre¬ 
quently bears fifteen to twenty flow¬ 
ers. In color it is a deep yellow, a 
little different from most yellows. 
That is, it is the warm and yet soft 
shade of an apricot, and it has brown¬ 
ish spots inside, similar to the deep 
crimson spots of the speciosum 
strain. If you cannot buy more than 
one bulb of this, get that one bulb, 
by all means. In three or four years 
you will have enough offsets to re¬ 
plant and make a splendid clump. 
The Siberian coral lily is a low 
growing and beautiful scarlet that 
everyone can grow, and that propa¬ 
gates very easily, too. Either from 
its seeds or its lnilb scales it may be 
multiplied, so there is no reason for 
not having a colony of it. It is called 
Lilium tenuifolium. 
The old Nankeen lily—the one sus¬ 
pected of being a hybrid—is L. tes- 
taceum, and nothing is more fra¬ 
grant and creamy and stately than 
this lovely species. It and the two 
above are Turk’s caps. L. Jafoni- 
cum is a pink outside and white 
within that should not be omitted. 
It is the trumpet form, of course. 
I am almost tempted to omit the 
“gold handed lily of Japan”—the 
splendid Lilium auratum —not be¬ 
cause it is difficult to grow, but be¬ 
cause it is not permanent and needs 
constant renewing. Of course, there 
is no question about its being one of 
the most gorgeous things in all the 
floral kingdom, with its great white, 
gold banded flowers, studded within 
with purple spots. These flowers are 
normally as much as 6" to 8" across, 
and sometimes they measure quite 1'; 
a cluster of them towering above 
one’s head is truly a regal sight. 
The season of its bloom is long, too, 
provided there are several of the 
bulbs planted, for in a group some 
will come into flower at one time 
and some at another. 
The tiger lily we must not by any 
means leave out, although it is 
rather coarse and stiff and common. 
So is blue sky common, for that 
matter; that is nothing against it. 
Do not get the ordinary L. tigrinum, 
however, but choose the better form, 
which is L. tigrinum var. splendens. 
This has larger clusters of orange 
colored blossoms, spotted with ma¬ 
roon, and is altogether a finer and 
better plant in every way. 
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