The incinerator, to be sure, is one of the last comers to domestic economy. To most homekeepers it has not occurred as either a necessity or a convenience; and for that reason this chapter aims to introduce the householder to the garbage incinerators. Once upon a time the incinerator was made to connect with the kitchen flue and fitted into the stove pipe. The hot air was thought to be sufficient to evaporate the moisture of the garbage after the housewife had evaporated and dried it out as much as possible. This had to be done because moisture in waste is the deterring factor in its combustion. Then after this stove-like incinerator had done its work, the dried garbage itself would act as fuel. But ... there was one terrible flaw in this method and that was the fact that the odors and gases that were given off were not only unpleasant, but often dangerous and so for this reason this method has pretty well passed out of existence. To do away with the odor and the gases released from the combustion of household waste, the developing incinerator has been created and flourishes deservedly among us. The enthusiast cannot say about the incinerator, as he can say about substitutes for his favorite drinks and foods: “If you don’t have one, you will suffer torture and go down to your death in agonies of discontent.” No, he cannot. But he can say this, “Although you can and do prosper without the incinerator, and although consciously you do need one in most cases, yet when you once own and use one, you find that it brings up the sanitary condition of your dwelling at least 50%.” In brief, it means doing without the garbage can which breeds odors, gases and vermin. It means doing without the garbage carts which are æsthetically, alone, a torture to say nothing of the menace they hold in common with their aide the garbage can. FLY COSTS The fly costs the United States of America, it is estimated, about 350 million dollars a year because of its contaminating influence on the health and the weal of the population. It is alone responsible for nearly 90% of the intestinal and typhoid fever cases. The answer to this must be: Every one must fight the fly; and the moral of that is: the incinerator is one way of getting rid of garbage and at the same time starving out the fly.