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dram. This shaft turns on a pivot 

 at both ends, and the rope that 

 raises and lowers the buckets is 

 wound on the drum. The rope 

 passes over pullies fixed in the 

 frame immediately over the well, 

 and there is a pole and whiffile- 

 tree attached to the shaft, for the 

 purpose of applying horse power. 

 But among all the better in- 

 formed and more enterprizing 

 cultivators, a pump, such as that 

 represented by the annexed figure, 

 has taken the place of the buck- 

 ets, and is now in very general 

 use. The cut explains its me- 

 chanism. It has three pistons, a 

 vertical and a horizontal shaft, 

 and is worked by a horse. Fig. 

 2 gives a side view of the horizon- 

 tal shaft terminated by a wheel, 

 a, which turns the wheels b, c. Each wheel has a spindle, to which is fixed a crank 



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fitted to the piston. Such a pump 

 as this raises from three to five 

 thousand gallons per hour, and 

 costs about $250 to $300, accord- 

 ing to the depth of the well. — 

 From the reservoir into which the 

 pump discharges, the water is car- 

 ried over the garden in lead or 

 cast iron pipes, and deposited in 

 barrels or tanks at different points 

 of the garden. These barrels are 

 all sunk in the ground to within 

 a foot or so of the top. Fig. 1 

 in the second plate represents this 

 arrangement. 



This is but an imperfect sketch 

 of what we regard as the best 

 system of supplying gardens with 

 water that we have yet seen prac- 

 ticed extensively and with com- 

 plete success. If our ingenious 



