I January, 
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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
should be placed a tank or chamber for 
the express purpose of converting the 
regular How of the sewage into an inter¬ 
mittent flow, so essential for the well-being 
of the beds. The size of this tank as indi¬ 
cated above depends on the size of the par¬ 
ticles in the beds, ranging from a capacity 
c.f one-third the daily flow to one-two- 
hundreth of the daily flow. The inter- 
mittency is secured by means of a flushing 
siphon, to be bought from one of the sev¬ 
eral makers of such apparatus. The 
siphon operates only when the flow line 
in the chamber has reached a certain 
height. Then in a few seconds the entire 
contents are discharged, to be repeated 
when the tank has again filled. By prop¬ 
erly choosing the size of this chamber and 
selecting the proper flushing for that size, 
the dose may be made anything desired. 
In order to make clear the application of 
what has been written and exemplify by a 
definite installation, the following descrip¬ 
tion of the drawings shown in figures i to 
5 may now be given: 
The illustration shows the ordinary con¬ 
struction of a septic tank, the cover, how¬ 
ever, being omitted. The inlet pipe shown 
on the left is provided with an elbow, so 
that the entering sewage passes into the 
tank about half way between the water 
level and the bottom. Similarly, the out¬ 
let pipe has an elbow, so that the sewage 
going out is freed as much as possible 
both from the bottom sediment and from 
the floating matter on the surface. Care 
must be taken to place the horizontal part 
of the outlet pipe at the proper elevation, 
since this determines the level of the 
water within. The bottom and sides 
should be of concrete about six inches 
thick and the sewer pipes four inches in 
diameter. In order to vary the capacity 
the tank, the length and width may be 
changed, although it is better not to ex¬ 
ceed six feet in width. 
The automatic chamber for the purpose 
of providing the intermittent flow, as wdll 
be seen from the drawing, consists ordi¬ 
narily of a circular well, at the bottom of 
which is installed the cast iron mechanism 
for discharging the sewage which enters 
the chamber. The inlet pipe coming from 
the sedimentation tank is usually above 
the level which the sewage reaches in the 
chamber. The automatic siphon should 
be placed before the bottom of the cham¬ 
ber is laid and it is best to set it in con¬ 
crete before any construction on the cham¬ 
ber is started. The outlet pipe should ex¬ 
tend to the filter beds and to the irrigation 
fields. The siphon apparatus may be pur¬ 
chased from several manufacturers of 
plumbing supplies. 
The figure show's a sand filter bed, the 
inlet half removed being the excavation 
filled with three feet of sand. In the cen¬ 
ter of the bed is a six-inch sewer pipe to 
carry away the filtered sewage. On the 
surface are two row's of wooden troughs' 
with holes two feet apart in order to allow 
the entering sew'age to be distributed over 
the surface of the sand. It would be de¬ 
sirable to surround the outlet drain under 
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