THE CULTIVATOR 
Cement Pipes for Water. 
Messrs. Editors —In looking over a late number 
of the Country Gentleman. I notice that Mr. S. D. T. 
of Eergusonville, is desirous of learning the best way 
to bring water to his building, and if water, lime can 
be laid with safety. I will try to give you what little 
knowledge and experience I have had in bringing.wa¬ 
ter through what we call cement pipes, arid think it the 
best for common purposes, if well laid. 
I dug the ditch from the spring to the house, 3 feet 
deep.of sufficient width for a man to work in convenient¬ 
ly. The spring was about 3 feet higher than my house, 
and the water had to run through a hollow of from 8 to 
10 feet in depth, of a gradual ascent both ways. The 
pipe I laid was of an inch bore. The mixing of the 
mortar is too well known to require explanation. The 
bottom of the ditch wants to be made smooth and of a 
shape to receive the mortar. The manner of laying the 
pipe is to have a trough 6 ft. long, 4 inches in depth, and 
3 in width in the bottom, flaring towards the top. This 
trough is filled with mortar; then turned bottom side up 
in the ditch. The rod then is imbedded in the mortar 
and another trough full is turned on that, and smooth¬ 
ed around with a trowel. The rod must be carefully 
drawn, until it can be turned up so as to admit of an¬ 
other trough full. At the end of the rod there must be 
a short- piece of rod attached by a cord some 6 inches 
long, to smooth out anything that might happen to 
crowd in behind the main rod. At the lowest point in 
the hollow, we inserted a piece of lead pipe in the side 
of the main pipe, for the purpose of cleaning it when¬ 
ever the sediment obstructed the free passage of the 
water. ' By pulling the cork from that piece of pipe, the 
water will rush through and cleanse it thoroughly. You 
can set a barrel with both heads out, over the let-off 
place, so that it can be easily got at. at any time. 
It is necessary in laying through hollows,that the pipe 
should be some heavier and a sufficient time for it to 
harden. When you arrive at the summit on the opposite 
side from the spring, you there insert an air tube, to 
come near the top of the ground, protected in some way 
to let off the air that will collect at that point. If not 
let off, it will prevent the water from passing. 
Pipe, laid in this way, I used twelve years, and left 
it in the eastern part of the State of New York, in per¬ 
fect order. I laid down some lead pipe about three 
years after, that was a source of considerable trouble 
from bursting. 
I should have said that the sand should be coarse, 
and washed free from mud and dirt. The proportion 
that I used was § sand to £ water lime. W. P. Lo¬ 
rain Co , Ohio. 
Cream. —The first fifth portion of milk from the cow 
contains about one twentieth part of cream; the se¬ 
cond fifth, one twelfth; the last fifth, one sixth. How 
important then to be careful to get the last and richest 
drop, even if it were not true that cows are quickly 
dried up by a slovenly practice of leaving a small 
portion in the udder. 
Plowing in Green Crops. 
I see in the last yob of The Cultivator , p. 3Qp, an 
article under the head of green manuring. That part 
which attracted my attention, was the process of throw¬ 
ing the green crop flat on the ground for plowing un¬ 
der, with a roller, harrow or chain. I have invented 
another method, something different from the above, 
which is very cheap/ and does the work to perfection, 
without any extra labor for the team. The process 
by which this is performed is as follows. Most farmers 
are acquainted with the gage roller that is attached to 
the beams of some plows to prevent their going too 
deep. This roller is placed in an iron frame, fastened 
to the beam of the plow, and hangs in the lower part 
of the frame, rolling on the ground to gage the .depth. 
The improvement consists in having a three quarter 
inch round iron bolt fifteen inches long, passed through 
the frame and gage roller ; then put a roller on each 
end of the bolt, five inches long. This makes three 
rollers running all abreast, which will roll down a 
strip of grass or other green crop fifteen inches wide. 
These rollers will- not pass off the top ends of the grass 
before the plow will be turning the other ends under. 
Thus it will be seen that the work is done at the same 
time and to perfection, without making it any harder 
for the team. I offer this improvement for the benefit 
of my fellow agriculturists. Elijah Hoag. Keese- 
ville , N. Y., 2nd Mo. 1854. 
Influence of Agricultural Papers. 
Our agent at Columbia, (Conn.) in remitting a list 
of subscribers, remarks:—“I believe this makes a re¬ 
spectable list for a rural town with less than 1.000 in¬ 
habitants. You will find by your books, that from the 
publication of the first no. of The Cultivator to the 
present, you have had subscribers in Columbia. What 
little our mite has been towards the pecuniary support 
of the. paper has doubtless been gratifying to the pub¬ 
lishers ; yet, after all, in my judgment, the great re¬ 
ward has been ours. It has stimulated to emulation 
and improvement. A spirit of inquiry has been waked 
up, in regard to agricultural interests and horticultural 
improvements, which is visible in every section of the 
town. Better crops are raised—better farm buildings 
are being erected—better stock is beng raised and se¬ 
lected—and horticultural and rural embellishments are 
springing up in and around our dwellings, which plain¬ 
ly indicate that their inmates have been made ac¬ 
quainted with the suggestive topics of the “Agricul¬ 
tural papers.” 
“ Last fall our county formed an agricultural socie¬ 
ty, and held a fair about six weeks after its formation. 
This town furnished a good list of members, although 
at the extreme south of the county, and took some five 
or six of the first premiums, while another town in the 
county, with three times the inhabitants, and equal 
natural advantages, but takes no agricultural papers, 
furnished no members, and took no premiums.” [We 
did not suppose there was a town in old Connecticut, 
where the people were all so far behind the age as to 
be entirely without an agricultural journal. No won¬ 
der they did not take an y prizes or furnish any mem¬ 
bers for their County Ag. Society. Such Societies are 
sustained by those who read.— Eds.] 
