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ing to see how little fuel it consumed. It cost 
$215. 
I have now to confess to a small extravagance. 
I contracted with a carpenter to build an orna- 
mental tower, fifty-five feet high, twenty feet 
across at the base, and fifteen feet at the top, 
sheeted and shingled, with a series of small 
windows in spiral and a narrow stairway lead- 
ing to a balcony that surrounded the tower on a 
level with the top of the tank. This tower cost 
$425; but it was not all extravagance, because a 
third of the expense would have been incurred 
in protecting the engine and making the tank 
frost-proof. 
To distribute the water, I had three lines of 
four-inch pipe leading from the tank’s out-flow 
pipe. One of these went 250 feet to the house, 
with one-inch branches for the gardens and lawn ; 
another led east 375 feet, past the proposed sites 
of the cottage, the farm-house, the dairy, and 
other buildings in that direction; while the 
third, about 400 feet long, led to the horse barn 
and the other projected buildings. From near 
the end of this west pipe a 1}-inch pipe was 
carried due north through the centre of the 
five-acre lot set apart for the hennery, and into 
the fields beyond. This pipe was about 700 feet 
long. Altogether I used 1100 feet of four-inch, 
and about 2200 feet of smaller pipe, at a total 
cost of $803. All water pipes were placed 4} 
feet in the ground to be out of the reach of frost, 
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