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Updated: June 14, 2025
Waring says: "I have in constant use in a room in my house an earth-closet commode; and even when the pan is entirely full, with the accumulation of a week's use, visitors examining it invariably say, with some surprise, 'You don't mean that this particular one has been used!"
I have recently concluded an experiment of six years' duration, the result of which seems to show that this objection to the adoption of the earth-closet system may be set aside, or at least reduced to such proportions as to make it unimportant. In the autumn of 1870 I had brought to my house, where only earth-closets are used, two small cart-loads of garden earth, dried and sifted.
As was the case with the other paths, it will be greatly to his advantage to stake it out and remove about four inches of the surface-soil, piling it near the stable to be used for composting purposes or in the earth-closet. The excavation thus made should be filled with small stones or cinders, and then covered with fine gravel.
The expense of its construction and use is no greater than that of the common water-closet; indeed, when the outlays for plumber's work, the almost inevitable troubles and disorders of water-pipes in a house, and the constant stream of petty repairs consequent upon careless construction or use of water-works are considered, the earth-closet is in itself much cheaper, besides being an accumulator of valuable matter.
He is now consulting director of "The Earth-Closet Company," Hartford, Ct., which manufactures the apparatus and all things appertaining to it any part which might be needed to complete a home-built structure.
Deodorization and preservation of excrementitious matter The earth-closet Waring's pamphlet The agricultural argument Necessity of returning to the soil the elements taken from it Earth-closet based on power of clay and inorganic matter to absorb and retain odors and fertilizing matter Its construction Mode of use The ordinary privy The commode or portable house-privy Especial directions: things to be observed Repeated use of earth Other advantages Sick-rooms House-labor Cleanliness Economy.
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