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DEVOTED TO 

 AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, AND RURAL AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. 



Perfect Agriculture is the true foundation of all trade and industry.— Liebio. 



Vol. X — No. 10.] 



5th mo. (Way) 15th, 1846. 



[Whole No. 136. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY, 



BY JOSIAH TATUM, 



EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, 



No. 50 North Fourth Street, 

 PHILADELPHIA. 



Price one dollar per year. — For conditions see last page 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Montgollier's « Hydraulic Ram" for 

 Raising Water. 



This machine is mentioned by J. H. B. 

 Latrobe, in the second No., Vol. IX., of the 

 Cabinet, and the operation or effect of it is 

 somewhat obscurely described by Reeve & 

 Brothers in the No. for Second month, 1846. 

 My attention was first drawn to this very 

 valuable, simple and cheap method of raising 

 water, by reading the communication of J. 

 H. B. Latrobe, and during the last autumn 

 one of them was made and put into success- 

 ful operation on my premises; the result was 

 completely satisfactory. This machine is 

 now in operation on Lewis Thompson's 

 farm, in Millcreek Hundred, in this county, 

 giving an ample supply of good water for 

 house use and for stock in his barn-yard, 

 from so weak a spring that, at its distance, 

 no attempt would have been made to obtain 

 it by any other known power. Tliis ma- 

 chine forces about one-eighth of the stream 



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'seven times the height of the fall used, or 

 'in other words, with a fall of about eight 

 feet for the power, he gets one-eighth of the 

 water, which is forced a distance nearly two 

 hundred yards, rising about fifty-six feet in 

 that distance. It has been visited by a large 

 number of persons, being the first one known 

 in this part of the country; and the proba- 

 bility is, that hundreds of them will be put 

 into operation in this and adjoining counties 

 in a few months. One of my family has 

 just returned from putting one up for Ste- 

 phen Webb, in Chester county, which, hav- 

 ing a strong spring for the power, and seven 

 and a half feet fall, forces about thirteen 

 barrels in twenty-four hours, through lead 

 pipe nearly or quite one thousand feet, rising 

 seventy feet in that distance, giving a full 

 supply of water for family purposes, and to 

 I water from thirty to forty head of stock in 

 jhis barn-yard: — personal observation will 

 jsatisty the most incredulous. One of them is 

 jin operation on my premises at this time, 

 merely to exhibit to inquirers, but will 

 shortly be put to permanent use at a new 

 jhouse, to save the expense of a well and 

 pump, which it is competent to do in very 

 m.any situations. The Hydraulic Ram, when 

 properly constructed, is not liable to get out 

 of order, or to require repairs; lapse of tmie, 

 jor muddy water passing through them, may 

 give occasion for trifling repairs, and when 

 these become necessary the machine can be 

 easily detached from the pipes and carried 

 in one hand for convenient repairing. The 



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