1913. 
THE) RURAL NEW-YORKER 
631 
FARM ENGINEERING. 
Farm Water Supply. 
I am making' some improvements; one 
that I intend to make this Summer is a 
water supply to barns and bouse, with 
bathroom and hot water. I enclose a rough 
sketch of the situation. The hill top (6) 
referred to is high enough to force Avater 
to house, while it runs by gravity to the 
vat (3). I thought of digging and cement¬ 
ing a reservoir on the hill top and pump¬ 
ing the water there with pump at well, 
PLAN FOR WATER SUPPLY. Fig. 208. 
then by gravity to house and barns. I 
would like to know your idea of it, or an¬ 
other plan ; could not use ram, not water 
enough. What would you advise for the 
pumping, windmill or small gas engine, and 
what style pump and capacity? Good aver¬ 
age for consumption of water would be 400 
gallons per day. L. l. 
New York. 
The plan you outline is a good one, and 
should be successful in every way. In order 
to be sure of a plentiful supply of water 
will deliver from 50 to 150 gallons of 
water per hour to the tank, depending upon 
how it is installed and how much water 
you feed to it. With such an Installation 
as described you will not have to pump any 
water for either barn or house, and there 
is no care beyond starting up the ram 
whenever you want to fill the tank or pro¬ 
viding an overflow from the tank and leav-, 
ing the ram running all the time. Be sure 
to keep all the air out of your siphon pipe 
by having all joints airtight and using 
good pipe. n. 1*. c. 
Capacity of Hydraulic Ram. 
Can I use a hydraulic ram? I wish to 
put a cistern (4,000 cubic feet) on top of 
a hill and fill it in 24 hours or less from 
a stream 100 feet below that level and 
1,200 feet distant f can get about 10 feet 
fall from dam to ram. IIow much water 
must the stream supply to force 4,000 cubic 
feet up to the cistern in 24 hours? f. g. 
Connecticut. 
The project you are contemplating is 
quite sizable and will require an expensive 
outlay. A ram will do the work all right, 
supplying 4,000 cubic feet to the cistern 
under the conditions you name—that is. a 
fall of 10 feet, a rise of 100 feet in 1,200 
feet of length. The ram must be placed 
at least 50 feet from the stream, so that 
the supply pipe will be at least 50 feet 
long. You can get a little higher head 
from stream to ram (which is desirable) 
by placing your ram a few feet below the 
surface of the ground. The supply pipe to 
ram must be 9% inches in diameter and 
the feed pipe from ram to cistern must be 
3V 2 inches in diameter. The stream must 
supply about 65 cubic feet per minute to 
the ram if the ram is installed in good 
condition . k. p. c. 
at all times the gas engine would be best 
for power. The reservoir on the hill could 
be pumped full every morning or evening, 
and then the engine will be free to do all 
kinds of work around the farm, such as 
(burning, shelling corn, cutting up fodder 
and silage, sawing wood, operating grind¬ 
stone, washing machine for the clothes, op¬ 
erating cream separator, etc. 1 would 
recommend a small rotary belt-driven pump 
with a capacity of about 15 gallons per 
minute. Such a pump may be bought for 
about $10 and will last indefinitely. In 
making the cistern, be sure to get it plenty 
large enough so that you won’t have to 
change it in a year or two. k. p. c. 
Ram for Farm Water Supply. 
Is there any way in which I could use a 
hydraulic ram on my premises from dia¬ 
gram below? You will see that there is 
only eight feet of soil; the rest is solid 
slate rock. Is there any way I could pipe 
this well running pipes down hill for said 
distance so as to force water back up into 
cellar of house into large tank? 
New York. H. M. w. 
A ram can be used to advantage by plac¬ 
ing it down near the barn or in any con¬ 
venient location and supplied from a tank 
or cistern above the barn, but located on 
the slope of the hill. This tank is filled 
Driven Well Problem, 
Can you give me any information regard¬ 
ing a driven well? I have driven down 32 
feet with a l^-incli pipe, but have failed 
to pump up any water. The laud is four 
feet sandy loam, then blue clay. If it is 
necessary to go deeper than 30 feet what 
kind of pump can I get to lift the water? 
Any information you can give me on this 
subject will be greatly appreciated. 
Delmar, N. Y. f. s. b. 
There is no pump made which will lift 
water more than 30 feet. If it is necessary 
to go deeper than that in driving a well 
the cylinder of the pump is put down in 
the ground and a long rod from the piston 
to the pump handle is used, so that the 
pump can be operated from above, a pipe 
connecting the cylinder to the pump stand¬ 
ard, of course. The parts you need, then, 
for a deep well are (1) a pump standard 
with spout, top, handle, etc.; (2) a brass 
or iron well cylinder; (3) a pump rod of 
length sufficient to reach down to the pis¬ 
ton, and (4) iron or galvanized iron pipe 
to connect cylinder and standard. These 
parts may be purchased separately cut to 
size desired and fitted together. it. p. c. 
Finishing Log Walls. 
Will you advise as to fixing the walls of 
an old log room? It has been built 40 or 
SUPPLYING WATER WITH HYDRAULIC RAM. Fig. 209. 
from the well by using a siphon, one end 
(lipping in the well and the other end in 
the tank. Then another pipe can run from 
the tank to the barn and you will have 
water supplied by gravity. From the ram 
runs a discharge pipe to a tank in the attic 
of the house, and the water for the house 
will then be supplied from the tank by 
gravity. The siphon can be connected di¬ 
rectly to the ram if desired, and the tank 
on the hillside for supplying water to the 
ham may be omitted. The ram must not 
have to raise the water more than 10 feet 
for each foot fall that it is below the hill¬ 
side tank, and the pipe to the ram from 
the tank must be at least five times as long 
as the fall. This may be done by putting 
the tank off to one side. The pipe from ram 
to house should be as short as possible. 
Use about a No. 5 ram which requires a 
two-inch supply and a %-iuch discharge 
pipe. Such a ram weighs about 70 pounds 
and costs about $12. It will last a life¬ 
time. It requires at least seven or eight 
gallons a minute to keep it going, and it 
50 years. I do not think it could be plas¬ 
tered. Some advise wall boarding. The 
walls are sagged at the corners, making it 
appear larger at the top than at the bot¬ 
tom, like a corn crib. Can you tell me 
any way to fix the walls besides ceiling 
them with matched lumber, which I intend 
to use for ceiling overhead? D. h. 
Missouri. 
To fix the room as a living room there 
are only three things which can be done 
besides boarding. They are plastering, 
using plaster board, and hanging with thick 
curtains. The latter way would, of course, 
be unsatisfactory. The plaster board is 
expensive and unless well supported is un- 
satisafctory also. Plastering can be done 
on any wall if the wall is first lathed. 
That is, nail beams or “furring” or some 
similar narrow strips of wood vertically 
and nearly as far apart as laths are long. 
Then nail the laths to this furring, keep¬ 
ing them about one-fourth of an inch apart. 
Then plaster over the laths. This will give 
a very satisfactory wall. R. p. c. 
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