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Pozvcr pumps. — Perhaps the simplest kind of a pump worked 

 mechanically is the Rider-Ericsson hot air engine, which is made to go by 

 the expansive force of hot air. The fuel used may be wood, coal, kerosene 

 oil or gas. Such a pump needs almost no attention after starting and 

 occupies very little floor space, so that it may be placed in the corner of 

 the cellar. 



If electric current is available, either by purchase or by employment 

 of the force in a water fall somewhere on the place, it is a convenient and 

 satisfactory method to buy a pump and motor and run the combination 

 by the current. It is not possible to give any estimate of the cost by this 

 method since the conditions would all have to be assumed, and the value 

 of the estimate would be almost useless for any particular installation. 



Finally, the most elaborate method of pumping is to install in con- 

 nection with a steam boiler, presumably used for other purposes on the 

 farm, a regular steam pump, a small Worthington Duplex, for instance, 

 which can be operated as needed whenever the boiler is fired up. 



4. PliiJiibiiig 

 (See, also, Farmers' Reading-Course Bulletin No. 28.) 



Supplying water to a house inevitably brings with it added desires 

 for conveniences before impossible. Once running water is established 

 in the kitchen, the old-fashioned privy seems sadly out of date and a 

 modern bath-room is found to be almost a necessity. It must be frankly 

 understood, however, that such an innovation requires a better source of 

 heat through the winter than stoves; in fact, it almost presupposes a 

 furnace. A kitchen in winter may be kept warm all night so that the_ 

 water pipes do not freeze, and few cellars are so built that the water 

 pipes may not safely be carried through them; but in an ordinary farm 

 house, an attempt to have running water in any room but the kitchen, 

 and often there also, would mean frozen pipes the first cold night ot 

 winter. A bath-room may be arranged in a room off the kitchen and 

 kept warm thereby, or it may be in a room over the kitchen or sitting- 

 room and kept warm by a register or a drum around the smoke-pipe, 

 but such an arrangement will require constant care and vigilance in cold 

 weather. It is far better to defer the bath-room until the furnace is in- 

 stalled. Then the full list of fixtures and piping will be as follows : 



I. A tank in the attic to store water from a small pipe, providing 

 tb.e pipe flow or pump capacity is small ; not needed, of course, if the 

 direct supply from the source is adequate. 



