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" I put my new well on the higher side of the 

 garden, with a large tub as a reservoir to get 

 sun-warmed. The pump is near a road, and 

 many people passed by daily. So I placed two 

 cups and a notice on a box seat, which read, ' If 

 you want a nice, cool drink, please pump a little 

 while.' We had many a laugh over the notice 

 at the well. Troops of ladies and gentlemen 

 passing would stop and read the notice, and 

 then start pumping. It takes over 200 lifts of 

 the handle to fill the tub, but it has been filled 

 five, six and seven times in a day, and during 

 the warm weather the pumping was all done for 

 us. 



" The overflow of the tub went into the gar- 

 den, and it saved me the expense of a windmill. 

 The pump was well patronized, except on wet 

 days. The bulk of this overflow went to the peas, 

 beans, rose trees, black currant and some 500 

 raspberry and blackberry bushes." 



Plenty of manure and then thorough cultiva- 

 tion make an almost complete protection against 

 ordinary droughts. It is clear that when the 

 " dry farmer " raises bumper crops on twelve 



