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THE FARMERY. 



[Chap. III. 



332. The lieu-Roost. — Every farmery iiiiist liave a lien-roost, if it does 

 not have a poultry -yard ; and this should not he an open shed, nor a cold 

 open room, but one so arranged that it will be well sheltered from cold winds 

 and storms, and lighted by a glass window upon the sunny side or in the 

 roof. It will also be funnel a most excellent provision to give hens access in 

 winter to a cellar, ■where they can scratch gravel and wallow in dust. The 

 hen-roost, too, should be arranged with special reference to saving all the 

 droppings of the fowls, because it is the most valuable manure that is made 

 about a farmery. 



SECTION XVII.-WATER FOR THE FARMERY. 



^BOUT half of the farms in the United States are 

 deficient in water — that is, the water is not con- 

 venient for stock ; and in many situations cattle 

 can only be watered by pumping, or by the still 

 more tedious process of drawing water in a bucket 

 from a well. This is a serious piece of labor, and a 

 useless one, because the wind can be made to do the 

 work a great deal better, cheaper, and more certain ; 

 and the whole expense of a wind-mill, pump, and 

 putting into operation, in a well twenty feet deej), 

 would not probably exceed $50. 



You may use any one of a dozen iron pumps, to be 

 found in almost every hardware store. Our own 

 /'75^~^ '^ ^ choice would be "West's Anti-Freezing Pump, which 

 X->.^ is made of iron, and is very durable. The wind-mill 



for the motive power is simplicity simplified. The wind-wheel is four feet 

 in diameter, divided into eight parts, curved from the center, just as we used 

 to whittle out wind-mills from a pine shingle forty years ago. The wheel 

 may be made of wood or iron. If of wood, fix the points of the sails in a 

 v.-ooden hub and secure the outer ends bj' a rim, just like that of a large 

 spinning-wlieel. Fix this wheel firmly upon an inch iron-bar, say two feet 

 long, with two bearings to run in iron or hard wood, and a crank in the 

 center suited to the stroke of your pump. If the valve works four inches, 

 make your crank short two inches. Now make a frame of three pieces, 

 three quarters of a square, with bearings for the wind-wheel shaft upon 

 two, and an inch and a quarter hole in the center of the other piece. 

 Upon this frame attach a vane of strong, thin wood, about three feet long 

 and one foot wide at the outer end. Now erect a sallows-frame seven feet 

 v;ide and fifteen feet high over the pump, fixed witli a pipe in the well. No 

 matter whether that pipe is straight or not. Now put a bolt, with a big 

 head and washer, through the hole in the frame that holds the shaft, and 



