  In the foregoing pages it has been the aim of the writer to give a few facts and supply a certain number of ideas which, in the mind of any person who has thoroughly understood them and who thinks for himself, may be safely left to ripen into schemes adapted to his own wants and surroundings. How many resources a man armed with correct views may find in the simplest appliances the reader may judge for himself by consulting Chapters IX, X, and XI of Dr. Vivian Poore's very interesting volume on rural hygiene. Whether the means for utilizing household wastes there described and adopted by him would be adequate outside of a limited territory of our own country, I am not prepared to state. For the same reason no definite suggestions can be made in these pages, owing to the wide diversity in the climatic and other conditions obtaining over the vast territory of our country. The writer has, furthermore, omitted all statements of detail which properly belong to the sanitary engineer. The works referred to will, however, supply those more directly interested with the facts and figures desired. The principles to be kept in the foreground are the disposal of sewage in the superficial layers of the soil in not too great quantity, the disinfection of the stools of the sick with lime before such disposition is made, the digging of wells in places kept permanently in grass and at some distance from barnyards, and, above all, their thorough protection from contamination from the surface and from the soil immediately below the surface. In every community there are public-spirited citizens who could do much good by taking hold of the simplest and safest methods of disposing of sewage and refuse, putting them into practice, and showing the rest of the community just what good can be accomplished and what harm avoided by a little continuous attention to sanitary matters. In this way many may be led to undertake improvements who, with no definite knowledge of the expense involved and with misgivings as to the final success of the undertaking, would otherwise hesitate to make a beginning. FARMERS' BULLETINS. These bulletins fire sent free of charge to any address upon application to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. [Only the bulletins named below are available for distribution.] No. 15. Some Destructive Potato Diseases: What They Are and How to Prevent Them. Pp. 8. No. 16. Leguminous Plants for Green Manuring and for Feeding. Pp. 24. No. 18. Forage Plants for the South. Pp. 30. No. 19. Important Insecticides: Directions for Their Preparation and Use. Pp. 20. No. 20. Washed Soils: How to Prevent and Reclaim Them. Pp. 22. No. 21. Barnyard Manure. Pp. 32. No. 22. Feeding Farm Animals. Pp. 32. No. 23. Foods: Nutritive Value and Cost. Pp. 32. No. 24. Hog Cholera and Swine Plague. Pp. 16. No. 26. Sweet Potatoes: Culture and Uses. Pp. 30. No. 27. Flax for Seed and Fiber. Pp. 10. No. 28. Weeds; and How to Kill Them. Pp. 30. No. 29. Souring of Milk and Other Changes in Milk Products. Pp. 23. No. 30. Grape Diseases on the Pacific Coast. Pp. 16. No. 31. Alfalfa, or Lucern. Pp. 23. No. 32. Silos and Silage. Pp. 31. No. 33. Peach Growing for Market. Pp. 24. No. 34. Meats: Composition and Cooking. Pp. 29. No. 35. Potato Culture. Pp. 23. No. 36. Cotton Seed and Its Products. Pp. 16. No. 37. Kafir Corn: Characteristics, Culture, and Uses. Pp. 12. No. 38. Spraying for Fruit Diseases. Pp. 12. No. 39. Onion Culture. Pp. 31. No. 40. Farm Drainage. Pp. 24. No. 41. Fowls: Care and Feeding. Pp. 24. No. 42. Facts about Milk. Pp. 29. No. 43. Sewage Disposal on the Farm. Pp. 22. No. 44. Commercial Fertilizers. Pp. 24. No. 45. Some Insects Injurious to Stored Grain. Pp. 32. No. 46. Irrigation in Humid Climates. Pp. 27. No. 47. Insects Affecting the Cotton Plant. Pp. 32. No. 48. The Manuring of Cotton. Pp. 16. No. 49. Sheep Feeding. Pp. 24. No. 50. Sorghum as a Forage Crop. Pp. 24. No. 51. Standard Varieties of Chickens. Pp. 48. No. 52. The Sugar Beet. Pp. 48. No. 53. How to Grow Mushrooms. Pp. 20. No. 51. Some Common Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture. Pp. 40. No. 55. The Dairy Herd: Its Formation and Management. Pp. 21. No. 56. Experiment Station Work—I. Pp. 30. No. 57. Butter Making on the Farm. Pp. 15. No. 58. The Soy Bean as a Forage Crop. Pg. 24. No. 59. Bee Keeping. Pp. 32. No. 60. Methods of Curing Tobacco. Pp. 16. No. 61. Asparagus Culture. Pp. 40. No. 62. Marketing Farm Produce. Pp. 28. No. 63. Care of Milk on the Farm. Pp. 40. No. 64. Ducks and Geese. Pp. 48. No. 65. Experiment Station Work—II. Pp. 32. No. 66. Meadows and Pastures. Pp. 24. No. 67. Forestry for Farmers. Pp. 48. No. 68. The Black Rot of the Cabbage. Pp. 22. ? Transcriber Note Illustrations were moved to prevent splitting paragraphs. |
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