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NOW FM BUILDING A SEPTIC TANK
- Or, One of Those Built-in Fenn CAanvePiences•
I went over to Will Jordan's the up at the college and sI
eri themte you
other day to borrow his wiresstreteher, at cost. I erdered mine from this fel-
and fiend Will out in the orchard dig- low from the college last week and he '
ging a hole that he could have used, shipped it right down to rne1 got i
as a grave for a horse. It lineedaY.. I suppose I could have;
"What the -dickens are ayou• doing rAlad 4 it, but 1 thought they couldi
down there?" I called. "I looks as make it exactly right up there, and it •
• though you niight be putting down% didn't east any more, so I let them 1
•foundation for one of those German maks it."
siege guns, What's all the sand and "Well, what becomes of this water
cement forie whet.' the siphon dumps it all out?"
"Hello' there, , J " erry said W, ill"I'm going to' ay.la few hundred
feet of common drain tile in several
.._ "Come on down in the hole and take
'
a shovel. We're going to build directions from the tank and that
tic tank." a sop -
water will flow from the tank onto
"You're going to build what kind those tiles and filter away •into the
of a tank?" said Isoil. That's what they call an absorp-
,
-'
"A septic tank: A concrete septition system," said Will,
tank," said he. "Don't you have to add any chem -
"Going to use it for dipping hogs icsils to kill the germs?" 1 asked„
or sheep?" 1 asked.
"No, you don't add a thing. The.
bacteria within the sewage convert
"Neither one," said Will. "Going the solids to liquid and this liquid is
to' use it to hold the sewage and waste
water from the bathroom and kitchen abeerbed by the soil,"
at
"Well, does this .tank kill the
the, house."
"That's •a new one on me," I ad - germs?"
"Now that's something I asked this
mitted. "Go ahead and telleme about engineering fellow and he explained
it. I'm• always looking for new ideas.
it in this way: He said that if disease
Maybe I can understand this one if
germs' entered the tank, they would
you'll explain it a bit."
not be destroyed at all inside the tank;
"Well, it's just this way," Will said, they'd pass right through. But he
• as he came up the ladder and sat down said that there are certain bacteria in
on a bag of cement. "I've been hear- the upper layers of the soil which
ing about these new-fangled ,septic
would destroy these disease germs as
tanks for some time. One day last
soon as the water gets into the soil.
week there was a fellow here selling
These bacteria are only in the upper
subscriptions to a farm paper, andlayers. That's -why you lay the tile
while he was showing me some of the pretty shallow."
stories they run in that paper, he
"How much is this thing going to
came across a story about a septic cost you?" I asked next.
tank. He told me about the work that "Oh, I can't say exactly what it will
the agricultural representative over
cost. They figure on the cost of the
in the next county was doing along
tank they built over there the other
the lines of farm sanitation. They've
day. • That one cost less than $50
been holding a lot of septic tank de- when they figured in the labor for
monstrations over there5 this year and digging the hole and mixing the con-
• I guess they've got a lot of folks all crete. I'm not figuring that in. The
stirred up about it. Anyway, they're
stuff alone cost me about. $80 all told.
falling all over thems?ves to get their
You've got a gravel bank over on
septic tanks built." your farm and it wouldn't cost you
"This representative went on to
as much as it did me, because I had
say that they'd been having a lot of
to buy sand and gravel.
typhoid fever over there and that
"There's just this about it. That
• they'd traced it to a farm where
peck of sickness and trouble cost me
there'd been a bad case of the fever,
over $150 in doctor bills. I had to
and as near as they could find, the
pay that trained nurse $45 a week for
disease had been carried all over the
three weeks all told, and I don't know
township.
how much the medicine cost me. Will,
"Now that set me to`thinising. You
Jr., was laid up just when I needed
know, my wife had a pretty bad case
him on the farm, and I had to hire an
of typhoid fever last year. We always
extra man, and if my sister hadn't
thought that she picked it up over at
come out to do the cooking and house -
the fair. Well, you recall how we just
work I don't know what that would
about gave her up for lost several
have cost me. I figure that I had bet -
days, and then how, just about the
ter spend $80 on this tank and take
time she began to mend a little, Will,
no more chances. I'll feel a lot safer."
Jr., came down with the same thing,
"By golly, I wouldn't wonder but
and almost died. I began to think
what you're about right," I said. "You
• about that, so I asked this.representa-
let me take that bulletin when you're
• -live 'What they had learned over in
through with it, or, else tell where
the next county ,about the way the'
I can write to get one like it. I be -
fever spread over a township. lieve I'll look into it myself."
"He told me that they traced the
With that I started for home, and
first case of the fever and then they
went all over that farm and found
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darned if.I didn't clean forget to ask
Will for that wire-stretche,r. But 1 FROCKS. THAT HAVE MADE
that the folks had a sewer that drain -
went back the next day for it and Will THEMSELVES VERY POPULAR
ed into an open drain in a pasture.
was pouring his concrete and setting Simple enough for, street wear—
. They noticed that there were always
the siphon. I got seine good pointers and charming enough for bridge or
a lot of flies and instas hanging
on how to build a tank, and I guess
• around the outlet of that sewer. The I'll start digging a hole in the morn -
crows and blackbirds used to hang
ing.—J. D. Z.
• around there, too, and wade around
in the sewer outlet, and'darnedif he
didn't figure out that the flies and Make Your -Bees Safe for
hugs and chickens and other critters Winter.
that did their loafing around that
sewer outlet had carried some of these
typhoid germs over to the neighbor's.
e They were the neat ones to have the
fever, and it passed along the line
until haIf the farmers over in that
section had it.
"I put two and two together and
figured that maybe, after my wife'
came•.e down with it last year, some
flies probably brought the germs up
to the hoese and scattered them on a
milk pail, or maybe on some of the
food on the table and that's how Will,
representative told me that
Jr. gat it. possibility ofa poor clop in 1926, if
they were going to have another de -
"This
weather ,is at all favorable, by prac-
ticing the following management this
dance! Fashion still smiles• upon
these simple frocks, both of which to make the meat tender. A rich, fine
were fashioned from one pattern. The flavor can be added to a roast of veal,
little frock of flowered material has lamb or pork by basting it with the
two side panels trimmed with narrow syrup from spiced peaches.
lace, and then shirred onto the one- • Add paprika and narrow strips of
fresh green pepper to your Dutch
cheese. Mix lemon and almond flavor-
ing for your cake, being careful to
use but a few drops of each, or add
currants or seedless raisins or change
the frosting occasionally. Add a drop
of peppermint extract to the choco-
late pudding. Other variations will
suggest -themselves, especially to a re-
sourceful cook.
BREADS FOR THE SCHOOL LUKII
• 13Y 1\11;141413. NICIIOLS,
used to depew entirely on diffeta
lent fillings to vary the egedveiches
made in my home. That was before
I appreeiated how many kinds of
breed could be maeufactured in the
kitchen. Now the staff of life on our
table maybe light or dark in color.
•Sometimes I add raisins, dates, nuts
•or figs to the dough to provide
chaege.
After many experiments, cm -eluded
as a pupil in a country school and
carried on later when 1 was a rural
school teacher, I have decided,that the
foundation for the ideal lunch -box
meal is the sandwich. This may be
accompanied by a hot beverage •or
soup, fruit and cookies. I. have a
small vacuum bottle which I use to
hold the soup or drink when packing
lunches.
Oatmeal, graham, bran, rye, Boston
brown and, breakfast cereal breads
are some of the favorites with my
family. Then there is a steamed
bread 'which 1 make from stale bread
Change the Flavor.
• When cooking the same dishes over
and over again try for variety by
-adding something different for the
flavor. Add a little candied ginger or
candied orange peel (finely chopped)
to a dish, of plain boiled rice. Add
some fine shavings of citron or can-
died- grape -fruit peel to your fruit
salad. Pour a tablespoonful of boil-
ing water over half the amount of
mixed spices you usually use for a
spice -cake and note the difference in
flavor. Add three tablespoonfuls ef
vinegar and ane clove of garlic to the
pot -roast for a change in flavor and
piece foundation at the raised waist -
Do you know that your 1926 honey line. The round neck , and short
kimono sleeves are finished with the
crop is largely dependent on what you
do with the bees :this fall?narrow
, If your
colonies are too weak in bees or have - lace, and a ribbon of pastel
color ties in long ends at the back. A
-old failing queene, you cannot pos-
sibly secure a profitable crop next bordered material was- used with
charming effect for the plain frock,
summer. If you have good queens s' to go into winter which opens at the neck with fiat re -
and strong colonie.
quarters, -you may still lose many col-
onies this winter and fail to secure a
maxineum surplus of honey next sea-
son•so says Prof. Eric Millen, of the
CSALG
You can almost entirely avoid the
monstration over near Podunk in two
days. That was last Thursday, so
just took a clay off and drove over
there.
• "They had quite a crowd of folks
• out at this farm where they put in
• the tank. There was an engineer from
the agricultural cellege, and a doctor.
They both gave talks on sanitation
and expIained- a:11 about this epidemic
that had made the rounds. Their
stories were about the same as what
that representative had told me.
• "The fellow who owned the fares'
had dug the hole according to the
plans-ise a bulletin. Here it is. They
handed in l to everybody at the meet-
• ieg. I'm fallowing the same plans
right now. They had some lumber
there and a couple of fel:ows sawed it
-up and hammered a wooden form to-
gether. You' see, this wooden .form
' that I've buit here 'goes inside the
bole ie the ground and you pour the
concrete betwe.en the form an the
wall, When it sets, you've got a tank." next sPrIng.
"What's' that little offset part of theqr.__
Tight Stove-Pipe 'Joints.
hole for?" 1 asked him. • The hole was •
iri one ,place and then at one end it If joints fit too tight when putting
was mare shallow, It looked as though up sheet -iron stove or heater pipe,.
Will figured on making two tanks. and You find a length will not readily
"Why, that's the sacand chamber. sip ever ceother, beat the too -small
The aosieg chamber, they call it at piece. The heat wiel expand it sufli-
the meeting," said Will. "You see, ciesitly„ so that it an then be slipped
the sewage comes through this tile onto 'the end of an unheated length,
• from the house arid into this big Do not make the mistake of heating
chamber. It stays there until it is both pieces, as this would .enlarge
• all changed to liquid and this- liquid both and nothieg would be gained.
gredually overflows Into this second The pipe can :be heated by putting ie
1;ce.. ire up .to a' a veal or nd a hot
fall;
Unite all colonies which, when ex-
amined on a cool morning, do not
cover more than two frames on both
sides. The simplest and beet plan to.
unite is to place one brood chamber
directly on another, with a single
sheet of newspaper between. Leave
•this way for one sveel. and then shake
all bees into one brood chamber. The
tavo queens will fight and the stronger
one invariably survive, se no notice
need be taken of the queen •when
uniting.
Colonies must not be united if Am-
erican foulbrood is present, otherwise
the disease. will be spread.
13osidos strong, colonies and goad
queens, an abundance of food is nec-
essary for winter ands spring breed- .
rearing. It is in this connection that
• many beekeepers fail to' put their
colenies• away for Winter and so a.Vold
heavy loss and secure maximum crop
vers and has long s_eeves' gathered
into a narrow band. No. 1166 is in
milk or buttermilk, Melt two and
one-half tablespoons butter and add
to one-half cup molasses. Stir all le-
eredients together and add oneehelf
cake yeast which hes been dissolved
in cnesfourth cup lukewarm water.
Beat he batter, It should be very
stiff: if it hie% add more fieure Place
In greased pans, kneading eiightly.
Let rjse, When light, bake in =a-
erate oven.
FRUIT BREAD.
Sealcl two cups Milk and pour into
mixing bowl centainieg two cape roll-
ked oa, two teaspoons salt and four
tablespoons sugar. Stir in two table-
spoons ehortening. When lukewarm
,stir in one cake yeast which ha e been,
diesolved in one-fourth cup tepid
water. Add sufficient flour to make
a dough that may be kneaded. Usual-
ly four cups are requited, but the
amount varies with different flours.
Knead until the dough is smooth and
elastic. Divide in two loayes, place
crumbs. We think it is delicious. in greased pans and let rise. When
Some .of the recipe,s for these choice doubled in bulk, bake from forty-five
loaves are as follows:
WHEAT CEREAL BREAD.
Mix two cups hot cooked wheat
cereal with one-half cup light brown
sugar, one teaspoon salt and one and
one-fourth cups each of stoned and
chopped dates and broken pecan -nut
meats. Stir in two tablespoons melt-
ed butter. When this mixture is lukee
warm, stir in one cake yeast which
has been dissolved in one-half cup
lukewarm water. Add sufficient flour
to make a dough that may be kneaded.
Knead as with white bread. Shape in
two loaves and lea rise again. Bake
from forty-five minutes to an hour in
a moderate oven.
STEAMED", BROWN BREAD.
Use one cup each of rye flour, corn-
meal and graham flour. Mix with one
teaspoon salt and add three-fourths
cup dark molasses, two cups clabbered
sour milk and one teaspoon soda dis-
solved first in one tablespoon hot
water, Beat thoroughly. Let stand
fifteen or twenty minutes. Stir in'
one-half pound raisins, pour into
greased molds or cans, filling three-
fourths full, and •steam for three and
one-half or four hours. Set in the
oven to dry a few minutes when the
steaming is completed.
• BRAN BREAD.
minutes to an hour in a moderate
oven. • If fruit bread is desired, add
one and one-fourth cups chopped
raisins, dates or figs with the flour:
NUT BREAD.
• Substitute nuts for the raisins or
other fruit in the recipe for Fruit
Bread. Use one cup nuts.
RAISIN BREAD WITH CORN SYRUP.
Put one-half cep dark corn. syrup
into e mixing bowl and add one table-
spoon melted shortening and one tea-
spoon salt. Add three-fourths cup
boiling water, and stir. When luke-
warm, stir in one- cake yeast first dis-
solved in one-fourth cup tepid water.
Add two cups graham flour, one cup
white flour and three-fourths cup
chopped raisins. Let double in bulk.
Beat thoroughly. Turn into a greas-
ed pan, cover and let rise again. When
light, bake in a moderate oven one
hour.
BREAD -CRUMB LOAF.
Break up very hard and stale bread
in small pieces. To two and one-half
quarts of crumbs add ane quart of
boiling water. Let stand, stirring oc-
casionally, until the bread is soft.
Mash until smooth and stir in two
cups cornmeal, one-half cup flour and
two teaspoons soda dissolved in two
tablespoons hot water. Stir in from
Mix three cups graham flour with one-half to three-fourths cup molasses,
one cup bran. Sift in one and ane- or enough to make a thick batter. Add
half Cups whole-wheat flour and one-
half teaspoon salt. Dissolve one-
fourth teaspoon soda in one tablespoon
one teaspoon salt. Beat thoroUghlya
pour into greased molds, filling three-.
fourths full, and steam from four to
hot water and add to two claps sour five and one-II:B.7.f hours.
BEGINNING STORE IN A WATER PML
• BY EDWARD A. RAND.
"And what have you here, Fred?" Squire Emery leaned over his coun-
ter one day, set back his old felt hat
on his head, and gave Fred a friendly
look through his specs.
"Fred, I have heard about your
store, and haw it started in a water -
pail. Let me -encourage you. I will
let you have a thousand dollars' worth
of goods and set you up. You can
pay me by-and-by."
"Thank you, squire, but I guess not.
Too risky!"
"All right—all right, Fred. Glad
to see your spirit. What will you
equal to the ruling of a nation, but his have, ma'am?"
And the squire stood up to wait
ambition far exceeded his industry;
on an old woman, just arrived.
and his place in the nation was very '
likely to be a mean one.
"Frecil" said Joe, patronizingly,
"swing out. Get trusted for a big
stock of goods, and go it."
Fred's only answer was a flourish
of the water -pail, and then he passed
on.
"If it is small," he thought, "my
stock is paid for."
He had earned three dollars hilling
the parson's potatoes, and then smas.ha
ing his Colorado bugs.
Fred held up his mother's yellow
water -pail, filled with brown _pack-
ages. --
"Goods for my store, Granny!"
"So you begin store in a water -
pail?"
"That is what it amounts to."
Fred had stopped at old Mrs. Ack-
erman'.s gate for a little chat. Every-
body called her "Granny," but Joe
Akerman, who was lolling aver the
gate, was really her grandson. He
was a smart young man, that felt
"Look here, squire!" said Fred, the
next day, "you made a kind offer yes-
terday, and I will tell you what I
would like. I evill go round and get
orders, buy my goods of you es I need
them, and you can favor me all you
can."
"Agreed!" said the squire.
Each day, then, Fred made two trips
to various houses. The first time, he
went with an order book. The second
time, he went with a wheelbarrow of
Fred was seventeen. It occurred to goods.
him that he might pick up a few perai So the snowball kept turning over
nice by trading. So he borrowed his and over, growing every day. At last,
mother's small kitchen table, paraded there was a new store in town, small
his goods on it, and cleave quite a and unpretending, but its goods were
thrifty trade with the small, but all paid for. Over the door, was the
ready buyers of candy and molasses sign of a waterpail.
gingerbread. He found that his „three I 'That Fred Barker," said Mrs. Ads -
dollars had brought him four in re- erman, "is bound to make money."
turn. . 1 "Yes," said Squire Emery, "for he
"Mother, lend me another water- goea eure, and he is willing to be small
pail?" he •asked, the next day. 1 that he may become big."
-"What far, Fred?" ' 1 Another store was opened'about
his that time, You would have thought
"Oh, something!" snapping
bright eyes till they twinkled like fire- that the. circus had come to town.
, Yellow circulars went flying into
flies on a July night. •
He wet to Squire Emery's store every house as if a. swarm a butter -
and filled his pate with more sabstan- flies were out on a raid. All day, a
tial goods, adding a few articles for fkncY wagon went flashing, about
the toilet from the. squire's showcase. town. It was as gay with bold and
He 'did not forget that some of his red as the last nesv China tea store,
buyers. had e perverse appetite. for sm'alVrthazet'de lively?"thatrsaatitdlisn'qui'rreotsErimdersye.
swat things, and he made a modest
inroad upon tlyeesquire's stock of red "Grotery!" he read an the side of
peppermints and white sugar hearts. the wagon. "Pooh! that ninny, Jos
"Mothers lona Me that shelf in the Ackerman, is eettin' ep in business.
' .‘,.. slre4! What next,
ala pantry which you don't user' P:1 give him throe months to 4"0; down
leee,es Yes, again. He borrowed a thousand, I
give me Tay pails. and nen saes he" hear, and has starta Far better if
Fred nailed it up outside the kit- he had borrowed Fred Barker's water-
ehen Window, arranged his goods Pail."
there, and when farm work was over, It would have boon much better,
would trade with his neighbors. in the In three months there ryas a failure.
• 0 -ening. a • , The wagon was 86d. to a fish peddler,
• • Se he went on.. One eltel increased He put out the red and gold lightsand
to three shelves, and the "store" was PaTilltejecloi!das is;leat-hgerestani.,e wera .auctin_
transferred 'to the inside and kept
open ail day, his mother managing ed off to satisfy ereditors.
• -sold a a
I • whie he was at work hi the cern field. v g - el) ..
Fred's money greav as a $nowball damaged waterpail. It was Ice e en.y
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nein raffle when it is siphoned out stove, Do not apply a flame directiv
w.0 severlti emnrartmonts, reprez,onting an office, garage end a S.elean storey
apartment tpae, and Is etticetly "catproot," en thaw to
j th I to end in a svaterpeil
automalle sinhon: 'they make tient roughen the isietal.• .•
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