THE GENESEE FARMER. 



May 



THE HYDRAULIO RAM. 



Eds. Farmer : — I have heard of a machine to force 

 water above its fountain head. I am very anxious to 

 elevate my spring water forty-three feet, which will 

 bring it to my wood-house, a distance of seven rods. 

 Can you, through your excellent agricultural paper, 

 benefit me, as well as your readers generally, by 

 giving a description of the machine, together with 

 the probable expense of elevating my spring water as 

 above stated, and also where it can be had ? W. 

 B. Coryell.— Lorfi, JV. Y., Jan'y, 1850. 



We know of no better way to give information, 

 than by answering the communications we are con- 

 stantly receiving, especially when they seek infor- 

 mation of the highest importance to farmers generally. 

 And we prefer, as often as we can, to have them 

 answered by other correspondents, who have had the 

 teachings of experience, and who can testify of what 

 they really know. Of this character is the article 

 above, by W. B. Coryell, and the practicability and 

 utility of the operation is satisfactorily shown by the 

 folio .ving, recently received from Charles Hanford, 

 one of the first settlers in this vicinity, but now of 

 Alabama, Genesee county, in this State. 



" I cm recommend the Hydraulic Ram to farmers 

 who want their springs brought to their houses am! 

 barn-yards. I had a good spring on one corner of 

 my farm, with five feet fall, being 50 rods from my 

 house ; I now have it brought to my house and to 

 my barn-yard, and thenco to my fields. The pipe 

 used is one and a half inch for the fall to the ram, 

 and half-inch pipe for the conductor up to the house, 

 which is 60 feet rise, making it convenient for a fish 

 pond in my garden, and a fine privilege for a milk 

 house — cold spring water to run around the milk 

 pans and to keep butter cool in the summer — also 

 for a bathing room. It has worked well sinca it was 

 put down, which was last September. C. H. — 

 Alabama^ N. Y. 



We think the above, from Mr. H., sufficient to 

 satisfy all as to the practicability of the plan, and of 

 its immense advantage. We shall therefore confine 

 our remarks to a description of the machine and the 

 mode of operation. Lest, however, any of our read- 

 ers should think wc are recommending a plan on too 

 slight evidence, we would say that, were it necessary, 

 we could give abundance of such facts from men who 

 have these rams. 



To assist in illustrating the subject, we introduce 

 an engraving showing the Ram in operation. A is 

 the spring, the water of which it is desirable to 

 elevate to the barn, or house, or fountain. B, the 

 pipe conveying water from the spring to the Hy- 

 draulic Ram, and from the spring to the ram there 

 must of course be a fall. C is the ram. D, D, pipe 

 conveying water to a trough for cattle, which might 

 of course be carried in any other direction dceired. 

 E, pipe supplying water to a fountain. A fall of not 

 less than eighteen inches at the spring, and a quan- 

 tity of water not less than half a gallon per minute, 

 are necessary to operate the ram ; but the greater 

 the fall and the quantity of water furnislied, the 

 greater will be the quantity of water elevated by the 

 Ram, The ram and tlie pipes, when set up for use 

 in a cold climate, should be placed some two or three 

 feet below the surface of the ground, and so covered 

 as to be secure from frost. 



We think we could not better e.xplain the philos- 

 ophy of the Water Ram, than by cjuoting an article 

 written by W. B. Emerv, of the Albany Agricultural 

 Warehouse, in the last volume of the Farmer, with 

 the accompanying engraving. Mr. K. says : 



" Although the principle upon which it acts is one 

 of the most simple in nature, and notwithstanding 

 the fact that it has been applied to the raising of 

 water for more than 3000 years, a kind of mystery 

 has hung about it ; and the seeming absurdity of the 

 idea that water can be made to elevate itself above 



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