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WATER FOR SMALL POWER. 
-S'. M. (No address .)—How can I make 
the best use of a spring of water? The 
spring flows 33 gallons a minute of cold 
soft water. In very dry Summers it drops 
to 25 gallons. I anv going to lay a two- 
incli iron pipe to bring it to my house. 
The distance is 900 feet, 35 feet fall, grad¬ 
ual descent all the way, but quite a bit 
the steepest at the upper end for about 
one-fourth the way, nearly a straight line. 
How much water will my pipe carry? 
Can I get power enough with a water 
motor or overshot wheel to run my churn, 
15-gallon barrel, and cream separator. 
Sharpies No. 4, for 10 cows? Would a 
joint or two of three-inch pipe at upper 
end increase the flow of water? I can 
get eight feet more fall by putting milk 
bouse 20 feet from where I really want it. 
Ans.—W ith an effective head of 35 
full feet a two-inch pipe should dis¬ 
charge about 31 gallons per minute and 
a water motor, if it could utilize the the¬ 
oretical horse-power, in this amount of 
discharge under an effective head of 35 
feet, should yield .27 horse-power. I 
think it is doubtful if any of the small 
motors could be made to yield more than 
75 to 80 per cent, of the theoretical 
power, which would leave an available 
horse-power of not more than one-fifth, 
which is about an ordinary man-power. 
It is my judgment that this is a rather 
narrow margin to depend upon for the 
work suggested, but by corresponding 
with the manufacturers of small water 
motors S. M. could learn what horse¬ 
power they would guarantee under such 
conditions. A two and one-half inch 
pipe, instead of a two-inch, would carry 
water enough for a theoretical .49 horse¬ 
power and this, I think, might do the 
work, but a two and one-half inch pipe 
could only be utilized by having more 
water available than the spring dis¬ 
charges continuously. It would be pos¬ 
sible to construct a reservoir up at, or 
just below, the spring in which the water 
was allowed to accumulate so as to pro¬ 
vide a larger volume of water to be 
used during the short time when the 
motor was in use, and the reservoir need 
not be very large nor expensive. If it 
was desired to have only the perfectly 
fresh, cold spring water running through 
the milk house, rather than to take the 
water from the reservoir, which in the 
Summer time would have a higher tem¬ 
perature, this could be done, locating 
the reservoir just below the spring, and 
connecting the two with a three-inch 
pipe provided with a three-inch T in the 
reservoir with a reducer for connecting 
the pipe running on to the milk house, 
as represented in the diagram. With this 
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arrangement, when the motor is not run¬ 
ning, the valve in the lower end of the 
pipe would be partly closed so that the 
full capacity of the pipe is not flowing, 
and water from the spring would pass 
out through the elbow into the reservoir, 
but when more water is desired throw¬ 
ing the gate wide open would allow the 
discharge pipe to be fed from both the 
reservoir and the spring. 
To move the milk house as suggested 
to a lower level would increase the theo¬ 
retical horse-power to .37 instead of .27 
but in order to be sure to have enough 
water at all times, even in this case, a 
reservoir would be required. This, how¬ 
ever, could be very cheaply constructed. 
It would not be of material advantage 
to make a few lengths of the upper end 
of the pipe three inches in diameter, but 
if there is an abrupt fall away from the 
milk house suction could be utilized to 
increase the effective head by allowing 
the water motor to waste into a pipe half 
, an inch larger in diameter than the feed 
TIT IS, RURAL 
pipe, running it down the hill until the 
. iowen «ntl of is .-gay 4 0- or 
feet lower than the motor. By putting 
on the end of this suction pipe a reducer 
just sufficient so that the water dis¬ 
charges from it a little faster than it 
comes from the motor so that the level 
of the water in this suction discharge 
never sets back quite to the motor, there 
would then be produced a suction of 10 
to 15 feet, which would have the effect 
of increasing the head or pressure on 
the water flowing through the motor. 
F. H. KING. 
NEW-YORKER 
January f1, 
“ I think I’ll go into the meat busi¬ 
ness,” declared the real estate man, 
“What do you know about the meat 
business?” “I’ve figured out the princi¬ 
ples of the game. You buy an unim¬ 
proved cow and subdivide it.”—Louis¬ 
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