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coming from a spring at some distance, a cesspool would be perfectly 

 sanitary if the soil be suitable, that is porous enough to carry oflf the 

 seepage. The only danger would be the possibility of contaminating the 

 spring, apparently not likely. I cannot reconcile the two statements that 

 the house is at the lowest point with the presence of the spring some 

 distance away, on a level with the floors. The ground is either very 

 flat, not likely with a spring, or else the level question is not accurate. 

 One cannot say how a pump would act because your questioner does not 

 give the distance from the house to the spring. I am inclined to think 

 that the pump in use must be a worn-out pump if it is more work to pump 

 than to carry. If the spring is at a distance of over 500 feet, it would 

 probably be cheaper and easier to run a pipe from the spring into the 

 cellar of the house into a cistern of brick or concrete or even of wood, ana 

 pump with an ordinary pitcher pump vertically from this cistern into the 

 kitchen sink. But if your questioner has been trying to pump through 

 a long line of pipe with the ordinary pitcher pump, it is not surprising 

 that she found it hard work. In such a case, the friction in the pipe 

 would increase the resistance so that the pump might not work at all. 

 A better make of pump might solve the difficulty, and I will be glad to 

 make suggestions of that kind if you so desire, when I know more of the 

 conditions. As to the kind of pipe to use in bringing the water to the 

 house, I would suggest galvanized iron pipe. If the water runs into a 

 cistern, one-half inch pipe would be large enough, but if a pump is to 

 work directly on the pipe I should use three-fourth inch as the smallest 

 size, and one inch would be better." 



WITH THE FARMERS' WIVES' CLUBS. 



" In reply to your letter, we should like to report our Farmers' Wives' 

 Reading Club in connection with Yorktown Grange No. 862. Our meet- 

 ings are held during the Grange meetings and it is our aim to make the 

 Grange more interesting and helpful. We hope this winter to do the 

 work as laid out in the program you sent and feel that a good many more 

 of our Grange members will take it up then. As yet only about one 

 quarter of our sisters have become interested enough to join the club. 

 Do we use the same programs next fall and the same bulletins? We do 

 not hold any meeting in the Grange from the middle of June till about 

 the first of September, so our club will have to rest over too. If there 

 is any reading matter to be sent out during the summer months, I think 

 all the members of our club would be glad to receive it. We thank you 

 very much for your kind offer of help and doubtless you will hear from 

 us often, as it is an entirely new undertaking to all of us. 



" Yorktown Heights, New York. Mrs. Charles A. Bushell." 



