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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
May 26 
THE NOISY HOG. 
The following lines were read bv Mr. 
0 L. Mosher at a recent Swine Breeders 
meeting at the West: 
Oiheri) may sIdk of their paper heir, 
Mow rich in ltd ])Uf<Be8'i<lon they feel; 
They are yi elcome to j y In their paper thing, 
But give me the hug that can Bqueai. 
Olliers may claim, and believe what they «av 
That their paper line, ehowe never a runt, 
But I'd rather truet in this modern day, 
in a commoner heg that can grunt. 
Oihere may talk of their roytl crosa 
And liack tracing lines to boot. 
But there's larking a flavor my jialate sitil craves. 
That is found la the hog toat cun root. 
Others may prate of a pedigree long 
AS a Congressman’s speech on “ Ueiieal.” 
But It never can feed the poor hungry men, 
I Ue the pork from tne hog that can squeal. 
WINDMILL IRRIGATION. 
WllKN AM) WUKKK IT H I'llACTICAL. 
How They Built the Reservoir. 
Iq the summer of 1887, after the pro¬ 
longed drought had ruined our crops, we 
thought we vould try what we could do 
to ward off like disasters in the future. 
On the eastern edge of our garden of 13 
acres, about midway, Nature had built 
a knoll about 30 feet higher than the 
rest of the land, with a gentle elope to 
the south and west and a little sharper 
pitch to the north. Here we thought was 
the site for our reservoir ; so at it we 
went with pick and shovel, though the 
thermometer marked 100 degrees in the 
shade at noon for two weeks, and by dint 
of some back ache and much perspira¬ 
tion, dug out a hole with a capacity of 
1 000 barrels. Scattered abound over the 
garden were many bowlders of siz "s vary¬ 
ing from .500 pounds weight to three tons 
or over. We called to our aid a number 
of pounds of dynamite, with the result 
that we had a clear garden and a num¬ 
ber of loads of stone with which to line 
our tank. The stones were laid up nicely 
with stone lime, and over that was 
spread a good coat of water lime. After 
finishing the inside, we rounded off the 
bank we had thrown out and neatly 
sodded it over. After planking over the 
top, our tank was complete. In winter, 
we throw on a load of dry straw, and 
that is all the care that it has required 
for seven years. We take the water out 
in two ways, by an underground pipe 
that carries it to house, barns and green¬ 
houses, and by a portable siphon over 
the top which permits us to flow the 
water in any direction, and which will 
drain the cistern to the very bottom. 
Where the Water Came From. 
For a water supply, we put in a tubu¬ 
lar well cf three-inch galvanized pipe. 
We used a sand screen of four feet six 
inches by the advice of our pump man, 
who said that we would get no more 
water through our pump than would 
flow through the screen. We have no¬ 
ticed since that many pumps suck back 
through lack of water. We found water 
at 73 feet, and, with the exception of 
two valves, our pump has worked per¬ 
fectly without expense ever since it was 
put in. For a mill, we purchased a 12- 
foot I X L wheel that has cost $4 lor 
repairs, and that was for lack of oil. Oar 
entire plant cost about as follows : 
Tank, for labor and materials.'.. J2i.O 
I’uiuD, compleie. Hb 
Wlidmllt, includlrg fcOO feet of thiee-fonrtlis 
Inch pipe. hO 
Total cost. 
A steady breeze will fill the reservoir 
in five days, pumping during the day or, 
in a windy time of year, working 24 hours 
a day, in three days or less. One thou¬ 
sand barrels will flow an acre to the 
depth of inch. After building our 
water works and experimenting faith¬ 
fully for three years, we can only say 
that irrigation on sandy loam, in central 
Michigan for the Kalamazoo market, is a 
failure. We tried it on strawberries, 
raspberries, blackberries, cabbage, sweet 
corn, asparagus, etc., with mulch and 
without, by the trench system, anc the 
results never paid for the labor. To 
make it profitable, one must have a sure 
market for an expensive crop like cauli- ' 
flower. 
But this is not saying that our water 
works are not profitable, for they furnish 
a ceaseless supply of water always on 
hand for our 7,000 feet of glass, our 
washing and sorting house, barns and 
dwelling house, absolutely without cost, 
save for the interest on original invest¬ 
ment. While for this part of the country, 
we cannot advise windmills for irriga¬ 
tion, still many large farms and market 
gardens would find a smaU plant like 
ours a good investment. 
Reasons for the Failure. 
One reason was that we kept adding to 
our greenhouse plant till we dared not 
lo wer'our tank sufiieiently for out-of-door 
operations for fear of getting out of water 
and destroying our valuable greenhouse 
crops. Our failures were too numerous to 
mention, likewise too mortifying. From 
four years of careful, painstaking experi¬ 
ment and seven years’ study, I am sure 
the following rules will give success in 
our comparatively cold climate and cold 
soil: The soil must be thoroughly and 
quickly saturated. It must drain quickly. 
The wet surface must be covered at once 
with a mulch of straw or freshly turned 
soil to prevent baking; how to do it 
rightly is the next question. The crops 
must be planted far enough apart to per¬ 
mit a full furrow between the rows. This 
furrow should be gently filled with 
water and the latter allowed to soak 
away, after which the furrow should be 
turned back and the surface kept culti¬ 
vated or mulched to retain the moisture. 
A hose of not less than inches in 
diameter should be used. A discarded 
fire hose is all that is necessary, as no 
pressure is wanted, simply a gentle flow 
of a large body of water. In well culti¬ 
vated, clean crops in this climate, one 
application will usually be enough. 
Things To Keep in Mind. 
In some long bearing crops like rasp 
berries or blackberries, two or three 
applications might be profitably used. 
One thing should be constantly borne in 
mind, irrigation is gardening or in ten - 
ive farming, and to make a success of it, 
one must confine a large amount of help 
to a comparatively small area to get re¬ 
sults that will pay for the outlay. Irri¬ 
gation here must not be confounded with 
irrigation in the Far West where the 
volcanic soil warms from beneath and 
where Nature has been storing up agri¬ 
cultural riches for untold ages. These 
questions must be carefully studied by 
him who would irrigate here : How and 
when shall we get the water in sufficient 
quantity ? How shall we apply it, by 
free or by natural flow'? On what crops 
can we make it profitable ? Can we get 
the necessary help when needed ? When 
all these matters are settled satisfactor¬ 
ily, then add deep, clean culture, plenty 
of fertilizer, good seed, plenty of thought 
and one will find that irrigation is a 
grand success one year in three. The 
other two the same care would do the 
work without the water. 
Michigan. w. h. wooduams. 
Bedbugs and Ants. —The plan of set 
ting insect to fight insect is, in theory, 
an ideal plan to make use of a pest. We 
are told in Insect Life that red ants will 
kill bedbugs and a writer in the Florida 
Farmer and Fruit Grower ‘-heartily 
recommends the introduction of red ants 
into houses for the purpose of extermi¬ 
nating bedbugs. He advises the owners 
of infested establishments to place a 
piece of meat in an old tin can, and bury 
it in the ants’ nest, afterward taking it 
into the hou e and placing it beside the 
bed. Then he recommends that a bug or 
two be hunted up and placed in the can 
in order, as it were, to rouse a slumber¬ 
ing appetite for bugs in the ants. After 
that, he remarks, there is great satisfac¬ 
tion and much sport in seeing the an’s 
run the bugs down and dismember them. ” 
This is certainly a cheap experiment! 
The lady whose portrait heads this article 
is Mrs. Mary P. Coveil, of Scotland, Bon 
Homme Co., S. Dak. She writes to Dr. R. 
V. Pierce, Chief Consulting Physician to the 
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, at 
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years with ‘ failing of the womb’ and leucor- 
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six months ; it is four years this month, 
since I was entirely well of both those dis¬ 
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jiearance since and I am satisfied the ‘ Favor¬ 
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hardly walk around when I commenced 
taking that medicine and 1 think it is a God’s 
blessing to me that I took it. 
I was pronounced incurable by the best 
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hopes and made up my mind that I was to 
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of two years old. I was sick all of the time 
—could not eat anything at all. In one week, 
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Wo sent to you and got the People’s Com¬ 
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my case described just as I was: we did 
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The following will prove interesting to 
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