MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, ETC. 165 
To show the influence this water has upon cattle, I am 
induced to insert the following from my note book :— 
“March 31st, 1851—Mr. Somers Tucker, the Government 
beef contractor, who has upwards of a hundred bullocks in 
his stalls, and has been out of tank-water for some weeks, 
tells me that he is compelled to make use of the water from 
the Corporation well, in front of Dean’s school, for watering 
his cattle ; that he drains the well for that purpose every 
day, and gives them as much as they please to drink. He 
finds the well water scour the cattle to an injurious degree, 
and has endeavoured to counteract the evil by lessening 
their allowance of Indian corn meal, and increasing that of 
upland hay. 
“June, 1851—Mr. Tichener Darrell, of Warwick Pond, 
tells me that he keeps three or four cows, the produce 
of which, in the shape of fresh butter, is sent to the Dock- 
yard for sale, were it is well known for its superior 
quality. He gives these cows tank water only, and assures 
me that if a cow be allowed to drink the common well or 
moat-water, as he termed it, the butter produced from the 
milk will absolutely ‘stink’ For this reason every care is 
taken to keep the cows from touching it.” 
During the scarcity of rain-water in the drought of 1849, 
many of the poorer inhabitants were reduced to the 
necessity of using well-water only, which had a most in- 
‘jurious effect on the health of those persons, and was 
rapidly causing the spread of diarrhcea and fever, when a 
fall of rain happily replenished the many exhausted tanks, 
and rapidly restored the sufferers to their usual state of 
health. 
