COUNTRY LIFE
TALK in the neighbouring village was of sanitation and septic tanks. The scheme for bringing water to rural areas has made some of the local people more familiar with word bacteria, and the old man who was doing most of the talking spoke of them with the assurance of one who had lived among them all his life. The quickest way of getting bacteria active in a septic tank, he said, was to go out and shoot a rabbit, bring it to the tank at once and put it in while it was still warm. In no time they would be "working." Everyone in this little place is interested in the subject, whereas, before the scheme was brought out, they were content if the piggery drain was below the level of the pump. With the advent of piped water and plumbing, the village pump will become more of an ancient monument. The daily trudge along the street will be thankfully forgotten. Some of the pumps were notoriously unreliable, and the journey for water had to be taken, across several fields to an old well or spring.
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