January, 1912 
HOUSE AND GARDEN 
65 
necting with the agricultural tile should be 
sewer pipe with cemented joints, and it is 
very desirable that the grades should be so 
arranged that equal amounts of sewage 
may pass into each one of the connecting 
lines. 
Which of the methods of purification 
suggested shall be adopted in any particu¬ 
lar case will depend upon local conditions 
to such an extent that it is impossible to 
say which of the three given here should 
preferably be adopted. If it is found that 
below the surface soil sand has been de¬ 
posited by nature, a sand filter would nat¬ 
urally be adopted. If sand or gravel has 
to be hauled, then fine broken stone is less 
expensive because of the high rate which 
can be used with such a filtering medium. 
If the ground level is horizontal and suf¬ 
ficiently convenient to the house, particu¬ 
larly if the soil is a sandy loam, then the 
method of subsurface irrigation would 
naturally be suggested. In all cases it 
must be remembered that the process is a 
delicate adjustment between conditions fa¬ 
voring the growth and development of cer¬ 
tain bacteria and other conditions which 
lend themselves to their destruction. The 
sewage disposal plant when constructed is 
therefore not to be neglected, but must be 
carefully inspected to make sure that the 
automatic siphon is working properly, that 
there is no surface clogging on the beds 
and that the appearance of the filtered ef¬ 
fluent is satisfactory. With a reasonable 
amount of intelligence used in the con¬ 
struction and in the maintenance of the 
plant, there is no reason why the matter of 
sewage disposal, after the original installa¬ 
tion, should ever be a cause of worry, but 
it may be expected that the household 
wastes will be taken care of in such a way 
as to be out of sight if not out of mind. 
The Naturalization of a City Man 
{Continued from page 45) 
organized as follows: 
General Manager, Henry E. Mantell. 
Farm Department, Henry E. Mantell. 
Garden Department, Raffles. 
Poultry Department, Robert and Helen. 
Bookkeeping, Mrs. Mantell and Helen. 
Raffles also made the suggestion that 
one of the unbusiness-like things he would 
be in favor of was that each should have 
only a “drawing account” and leave as 
much as possible of his wages in the busi¬ 
ness for the first year, interest on the 
same to be paid at 5 per cent. He ad¬ 
mitted frankly that as far as leaving his 
wages in was concerned, it was not a mat¬ 
ter of charity, because he knew that the 
business would need the money, and he 
needed the business in order to have his 
job. Also, that as the business owed him 
money, there would be less chance of his 
being dropped for another man. He said 
this jokingly, but as things developed 
afterward there were real reasons for it. 
Not an inch from zero 
but growing finely 
Between the two layers of glass in 
the Sunlight Double Glass Sash is an 
air space 5/^ of an inch in thickness 
This is the secret of the complete success of 
that sash everywhere for hot-beds and cold- 
frames. 
the Sunlight Sash is complete in itself. It needs 
no mats or boards. The only cover is the air 
sealed between the layers of glass and this does 
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