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After the war, there was an effort to get some rurals to dig and construct proper, sanitary outhouses -- apparently the knowledge of sanitation was taking hold. A story, related by a relative of one of the commissioners delecgated to the task of persuading action by the landholder is paraphrased thusly:
Having run across a particularly stubborn farmer who vehemently refused to construct an outhouse, I asked to purchase a small bag of flour. Having been given the quantity requested, he asked what it was for. I said I proposed to pour it into his latrine so that when flies with white legs showed up on his dinner, he'd kinow where they came from. The flour wasn't necessary.
Ole
