Three short courses in home making

If one looks after the daily disposal of waste, there will be no offend- ing accumulation of trash. Scraps of food that can be no longer utilized for the table can be fed to the pigs or chickens, but. they should not be allowed to stand around and gather flies. A covered pail or pan should be used for holding the garbage until final disposal is made of it. Those portions of waste that are badly spoiled ami will be of no value in feeding the stock should be burned up at once. Piles of waste vegetable substances, if suitable, should be fed to the ^tock, and if not, should be buried in a thin Layer on the ground at BOme distance from the bouse so that they may enrich the soil and not at tract flics. Utensils that have held food should be thoroughly washed and rinsed with hot water or steam in order to prevent particles of food from adhering ami becoming spoiled. Milk bottles ami pans should always be thoroughly Bterilized with boiling water or steam after they have been washed. The garbage can should be boiled with water and soda each day and rinsed Willi hot water in order to keep it BWeel and clean. Old papers thai are badly -oiled should be burned, but all others should be kept for use in cleaning the -t<>ve, starting Ores, etc. Empty can- should be well washed and buried, BO that they will not prove a breeding place lor flies, It is well to pierce them through the bottom immediately after opening them so thai they will not hohl water. If not convenient to bury the cans, they should be burned up. Dishwater should be emptied some distance from the house unless there is a drain near the house. All receptacles that hold water should be carefully emptied and all depressions in the soil should be tilled up to prevent mosquitoes. All waste water can be used on the garden. 16 THEEE SHORT COURSES IN HOME MAKING. Protection of water supply. — Only water from deep wells should be used for drinking purposes, because all surface water and water in shallow wells becomes dangerous through seepage from compost, pigpens, privies, and other places where decayed organic matter is accumulated. In order that the water be kept clean, the well must be supplied with a tight-fitting top, which need not be opened, and a metal pump to bring up the water. A well platform that allows water spilled on it to run back into the well is unsafe, for any filth carried on to the platform in any way will be washed directly into the well. Rats, mice, and other animals get into the well if the top is not tight, and these, in addition to being unpleasant, are liable to carry germs.