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With Clay or Loam

Dry earths, strong loams and clay, reduced to powder, are cheap and perfect deodorizers of fetid substances, when the latter are covered with the earth. These are valuable in all cases when the substance does not nearly saturate the earth used.

Copperas. For privy-vaults, cesspools, etc., especially those giving off the smell of sulphurated hydrogen (rotten-egg smell), use copperas in powder. It is cheap, and one or two pounds will destroy the smell of an ordinary privy-vault or cesspool. It is also the best cheap disinfectant for sinks, drains and all that class of fixtures giving off bad smells.

Carbolic acid or chloride of lime may be used in all cases when the smell of these agents does not reach the rooms of a building.