150 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



that of his family would be better for it. I am sure it would 

 not cost half so much as it would to dig out and stone up a 

 cellar. 



Mr. B. L. Johnson of Newtown. I understood the doctor 

 to say that he thought people living in cities and villages had 

 an advantage over the farmer's family in conveniences for 

 cleanliness, in the way of bath-rooms, hot and cold water, 

 and the like. I should beg to disagree with him there. I 

 think there is not a farmer in Connecticut who cannot obtain 

 all those conveniences in his own home about as well as they 

 are had in the cities, either by bringing water into his house 

 from a spring that he may find properly located, or, if he can- 

 not find that, by taking the water from the roof of his house 

 into a tank on the second floor, or in the attic, and by 

 means of pipes convey the water to different parts of his 

 house — I speak from experience. A few years ago, I over- 

 hauled my house, and I asked my wife which she would 

 rather have, a parlor well-furnished or conveniences for bath- 

 ing, etc., for I had not the money to spare to furnish both. 

 She said she would rather have the water. 



Dr. BowEN. A very sensible woman, sir. (Applause.) 

 Mr. Johnson. I think she is, I thought so before I mar- 

 ried her. (Laughter and applause.) I looked about in the 

 vicinity, and on a neighboring farm I found a spring that was 

 so located that I could take the water into the second story of 

 my house. The spring was sixty rods away from me. I 

 bought the spring of the farmer, paying him thirty dollars for 

 it, and he gave me a deed of it, the same as he would of any 

 piece of property, f laid my pipe and brought the water to 

 the house. We started the water running on Thanksgiving 

 Day, 1874, and there has not been a moment, from that hour 

 to this, when that half-inch pipe has not run full of water, 

 and we have a tank on the second floor that is always full. 

 Pipes from that tank run to the kitchen stove, where we have 

 a boiler, and the hot water goes to the sink. We have a bath- 

 room, so that when I come in from hoeing corn, plowing for 

 rye, or any other dirty work, instead of going to a pond, a 



