The Canadian Horticulturist. 



A DEVICE FOR UTILISING RAIN WATER WITH 



MANURE. 



Y plan is to take three posts six feet long, six inches 

 square, sink them three feet in ground and place a ioo 

 gallon barrel on them, i is a false bottom with small 

 holes in it to allow the liquid to the tap. Nail this three 

 inches from the bottom of barrel. 2 is the manure and 

 water in barrel. 3 is a round floater two inches thick 

 and as wide across as the inside of barrel will permit it 

 to work up and down freely ; this floater cannot iise high enough to raise the fun- 

 nel end of pipe 5, so add the bridge 4 in centre of floater under funnel cross- 

 ways. 4 is made of a stiff wire (bridge shape) and fastened on centre of floater 

 by boring two holes one and one-half inches deep,the size of wire, and fasten the 

 two ends of bridge in them firmly ; make- this bridge about twelve inches long 

 and high enough to lift the funnel end of pipe 5, when the barrel will be full. 

 5 is a tin pipe the same length as the width of the top (head) of barrel, so 

 by fastening it with a hinge at centre it will about balance; if not, add anything 

 at either end to balance it. I solder one end of a hinge under the centre of pipe 

 5, and the other end of hinge I screw on end of barrel. The water falling in 

 funnel makes it sink if the barrel is empty, so the water falls in the barrel. When 

 the barrel is full the bridge on the floater will raise the funnel end of pipe 5, so 

 the water flows in the waste pipe 8, ' instead of washing the strength from the 

 manure and coloring the outside of barrel, etc. 6 6. are made of stiff wire to 

 keep the floater from turning around, for the bridge should be cross-ways, with 



