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Re^vding-Course for Farmers. 



George Allen, Ithaca. 



Mr. Allen secures water from the roof. He has a tank in the 

 second story of his house made of 2 x 4s laid up and spiked together. 

 This is lined with sheet lead. The lead is much better than copper be- 

 cause it will stretch somewhat if the walls of the tank spring. The copper 

 is likely to split or seam, resulting in leakage. On the other hand, the lead 

 lining is not safe when the water is to be used for drinking purposes. 

 Water from the roof is caught in troughs and stored in this tank (See O, 

 Fig. 321), which is about five feet deep and five feet square, inside 

 measurement. The water from the parts of the roof too low to run into 

 the tank is conducted into a cistern in the cellar of the house (B B, 

 Fig. 21). A pump in the kitchen is so arranged that it may be used 

 to pump water from the cistern below or from the well in front of the 



Fig. 321. — .4 roof water supply. The coiiditctor supplying the 

 tank enters at O. Tlie ivcl'sr supplying the celler tank follows 

 the course B B. George Allen, R. F. D., Ithaca. 



house into the tank above. ]\Ir. Allen has seldom needed to use the pump 

 for this purpose, but the pump is in constant use to pump the drinking 

 water from tlic well to the kitchen. The tank on the second floor sup- 

 plies water to a hot water tank attached to the kitchen stove, to a sink in 

 the kitchen, and to a water-closet and bath, all on the first floor. The 

 pipes have never bothered about freezing because the house is heated with 

 a furnace. The waste water is conducted into a cesspool at the rear of the 

 house about eight feet deep and four feet across. While the cesspool is 

 not more than twenty feet from the house, the ground slopes abruptly 

 from the house on this side so that the top of it is below the level of the 

 cellar bottom. It is covered so that no odors escape. It is on the opposite 



