CHAPTER XX. 

 FARM WATER-WORKS. 



Convenience of Running Water. It is the belief of many 

 that one of the great evils of this country is the tendency of the 

 young people of both sexes to remove from the farms. It is not 

 simply that the glitter of the city calls, but partly that the dull 

 routine and endless drudgery of rural life drives them away. 

 Anything that serves to lessen the sordidness of the struggle, 

 lighten the day's labor, or make less heavy the burden of life is 

 of inestimable value. 



In very few ways, if any, may the drudgery be so readily 

 lessened or the pleasures and comforts of rural life so increased 

 as by the installation of running water in the houses and barns. 

 Everywhere this is beginning to be recognized, and the time 

 should not be far distant when water-works systems will be found 

 on every prosperous farm. That they are not there already is 

 due to the facts that their great convenience is often not fully 

 appreciated, that their nature is often not understood, and that 

 their relative cheapness is not realized. The time is past when 

 they are to be regarded as extravagances; to-day they are a 

 necessity for both comfort and health. There are very few of 

 the older or larger farms that cannot well afford the cost of their 

 installation. 



Time is money, and a water system furnishing a running supply 

 is a labor-saving device that will quickly pay for itself when stock 

 is to be watered, gardens are to be irrigated, or a house is to be 

 supplied. To the woman, upon whom frequently falls the endless 

 drudgery of pumping and carrying, in fair weather and foul, the 

 water from a well located perhaps a hundred feet away, the relief 

 afforded by the installation of such a system will be great. With 



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