1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



353 



COW MILKER'S ASSISTANT. 

 This little implement will prevent a good deal 

 o? swearing. So you see it has a moral beai-ing. 

 Notwithstanding the practice is wicked, vulgar, 

 and ungentlemanly, a good many persons whd 

 milk cows, swear worse than "our army did ir 

 Flanders," when provoked thereto, by a rousing 

 switch in the face with a vigorous cow's tail. It 

 does i*ather disturb one's equanimity, especially 

 if the animal has just risen from her bod, where 



the t;iil has beeti recumbent in what certainly icill 

 give color and fragrance to the rose ; but we should 

 not be willing to jeopardize our veracity by saying 

 chat it is cither of them in its present form. 



Letters a, a, show the part attached to the large 



ord on the leg, just at the point of the hock: 0, b, 



che jaw (now closed) into which the hair of the 



tail is inserted, and c, c, the springs by which the 



other parts are opened. 



We have used it, and find that it answers the 



purpose for which it was intended most admirably. 

 It is made of brass, is perfectly simple, and will 

 l)e wanted by all who have not razeed their cows' 

 t^iils. 



The Elon. John M. Ware, of Seabrook, N. II., 

 is the inventor of the implement, and, we under- 

 stand, haa secured a patent upon it. 



AN OHIO NOVELTY. 



Up in Bryan, Williams county, Ohio — in the 

 town — there is a novelty wliich is rarely to be ex- 

 ceeded in cui-iosity anywhere. All over the village 

 the people are I'avored with natural fountains. 

 The item thus describes the novelty : 



It is suppoaod that there is an underground 

 lake, at tin; dupth of some forty or fifty feet, of 

 considerable extent, as water has been found when 

 bored for, for several miles around. Tliis is also 

 apparent from the fact, that every new well tluvt 

 is l)ored uif 'cts the strength of others in its imme- 

 diate vi.:iuity, until its stream is elevated by means 

 ofastoktoan equal iieiglit. The amount of 

 water discharged by these fountains, however, is 

 not proportionate or equal — they vary considera- 

 bly in iliU'Tent parts of the town, the strongest 

 ones biitig geneniUy east of Main street. The wa- 

 ter cun be raised in proix)rtion to the stream 

 forced up. There are several that fill a two incli 

 augur hole at the height of eiglit fiKit above tlie 

 surfaci! of the earth, and the otiiers issue a some- 

 what smaller stream to tlio height of twelve or fif- 

 t'><?n feet. Some of the larger onf^fl frequcntlv 



throw up fisli, and we are told that there is a very 

 strong fountain about a mile east of this place, in 

 which fish of a blackish coh)r, of the length of 

 three inches, have been seen. 



The work of procuring water is simple and easy. 

 There are seldom any stones met with, to obstruct 

 the course of the auger, and but one or two days 

 are required usually to sink a well, of five or six 

 inches in circumferance, the necessary depth. 

 Water is found at an average depth of 42 ^wt. 

 The augur passes through a loose nand until it 

 strikes what is called "a hard pan," a bed of solid 

 blue clay, of from two to three feet in thickness, 

 and of such a natare that it requires a drill to 

 penetrate it. Immediately below this "hard pan" 

 lies the water embedded, it is supposed in quick- 

 sand, as for some days, in some instances weeks, 

 lurge qiuuitities of fine wliite sand are ejected by 

 the water, but the stream finally becomes pure 

 and clear and no nand is afterwards seen. 



No season or state of the water has any eflect 

 upon those living fountains — nor drouglit nor flood 

 can cliange their em-rents — tliey are ever the same 

 — their source is inexhaustible, and therefore they 

 cannot fail. 



Sri,K.\DiD Plant. — There is now in full bloom, 

 in tlie Liverpool Botanic garden, a beautiful 

 specimen of the Wistaria simnsis. This spkndid 

 jihint, which is considered the finest specimen in 

 Britain, covers a space of wall amounting to near- 

 ly nine hiindred square feet. At the present tiiui' 

 ther(! are about six tliousand racemes or bunclie*" 

 of flowers on it, each bunch Ix^aring on an avnr- 



