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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 3, 
Hope Farm Notes 
People tell of the great value and vir¬ 
tue of a constant supply of running 
water in the house. They cannot say too 
much about it, for of all the things which 
make a farm home worth while a sure 
water supply, just where it is needed, 
ranks near the top of the list. You never 
know how useful and worthy it is until 
it is shut off by accident. When we 
bought this farm there was no convenient 
water supply. An old well some SO feet 
deep, near the house, had failed, and 
former owners filled it in with stones. It 
had become a nuisance, as in wet times 
water rose in it and kept the house damp. 
There was a big cistern for rain water 
under the house, but all drinking water 
was carried from a distant spring. We 
got the farm at a low figure because of 
this lack of water. Customers looked the 
place over and liked it, but when the 
women folks found there was no water 
except far down under the rock, there 
was nothing more to it. 
There were two ways for us to obtain 
a water supply. One was to clean out 
a spring on the hillside and pipe the 
■water down—the other to drill a well 
near the buildings. After some figuring 
I decided upon the wells—though I now 
think the other plan would have been bet¬ 
ter. We had a six-inch hole drilled down 
into the ground—142 feet deep. At 16 
feet they struck the solid rock and an 
iron casing was driven into this. The 
water rises to within about 35 feet of 
the surface of the ground. It is remark¬ 
ably pure—better I think than much of 
the bottled water which is sold. We put 
a windmill over this well. After 13 
years of constant service it is still work¬ 
ing whenever the wind blows. There 
have been no repairs in all that time ex¬ 
cept a few broken chains. This past sea¬ 
son we have helped this old veteran by 
taking the gasoline engine off the sprayer 
and mounting it near the pump, to be 
used when the wind is still. The water 
is pumped into a tank at the top of the 
house, which supplies a full outfit of 
water devices. 
I think this outfit added 25 per cent 
to the value of the farm at once. This 
might not be true of some country local¬ 
ities but here close to the large cities, a 
good water supply is necessary if you 
would sell your property. Aside from any 
increase of value the comfort and char¬ 
acter which such a water supply will 
give is beyond calculation. I say “char¬ 
acter,” well knowing what the word 
means. If a fair water supply with the 
fixtures and necessities which go with it 
could be put into every farmhouse, many 
of the troubles of farmers would be on 
the road to settlement. It would help 
to create the confidence and satisfaction 
with home which, after all, are the things 
which are the foundation of improvement. 
Whenever water runs freely through a 
farm home it does far more than carry 
dirt away, or leave warmth behind. It 
also takes away a lot of prejudice and 
the mean part of human life, which stand 
in the way of improvement and a broad 
view of life. Take it from me that if 
during this New Year, there is any pos¬ 
sible way for you to bring running water 
to your house, and heat it after it gets 
there, such work will prove a big invest¬ 
ment. 
We found it so and got to the point 
where 500 gallons of water per day would 
hardly take care of us. Then our old 
friend, the pump, went on a strike. I 
admit that we have worked him hard, 
and perhaps we did not keep his joints 
tightened up or give him the finest foot¬ 
ing to stand on. He probably tried to 
tell us something like this: 
“You don’t give me a chance to rest. 
These house folks come calling more 
water! When they are satisfied these 
great horses and cows come with bottom¬ 
less stomachs, also calling more water. 
That whirling thing above me pulls my 
backbone up and down with jumps and 
starts. When his arms are tired this 
coughing and spitting engine takes me by 
the collar harder than ever. They take 
their days off, but there is no rest for 
Mr. Pump. I’m going to quit.” 
Nobody seemed to understand him, and 
so he struck. Philip and Merrill pulled 
him up to see what ailed him but the 
pump had decided that he preferred the 
scrap heap to being man-handled by the 
windmill and engine. So he just let go 
his grip and 40 feet or more of pipe and 
pump went rattling and banging down into 
that 142-foot hole in the ground—and the 
Hope Farm water works stopped work¬ 
ing. The man who drilled the well and 
knew how to get thav pipe out was do¬ 
ing jury duty. Our folks never did think 
so much of water as during the days 
needed to put another pump at work. The 
old pipe was to come out. To the average 
man the idea of fishing for a pipe in a 
small dark hole over 100 feet below 
ground would look like an impossible 
thing. To the man who knows how to 
do it it’s easy. A pump pipe is not like 
a fish—to bite at a hook. In order to 
get this ODe they took an iron pipe just 
large enough to go into the well casing. 
It was open at both ends. At the top 
was a strong iron bale or handle and at 
the bottom two strong steel rods crossing 
at right angles, so as to leave four spaces 
for the pipe to pass up through. Held 
in by these small rods was a steel disk 
or plate just large enough to play up and 
down inside the large pipe, and with little 
notches at its rim. They fastened this 
tool to a rope and lowered it gently down 
into the well-hole, working it up and down 
and around. The plan was to strike the 
pipe and then by lunging and pushing 
to get the rim of this tool between the 
end of the pipe and casing. Then the 
end of the pipe would run up through 
this tool, lifting one side of the steel disk 
as it went. When it got far enough up 
through the rope could be pulled tight. 
As the pipe was lifted its weight would 
pull down the disk and the harder it 
pulled down the tighter that lip of steel 
held it in place. That is just what hap¬ 
pened. After a few trials they gripped 
the pipe and pulled it slowly up. The 
first time it caught on the casing and 
held back. With a small mirror they 
could throw a light down into the hole 
and see where it was caught. The next 
time they got it and slowly pulled it out. 
Then we put in a new pump and the en¬ 
gine and windmill will soon show it that 
life is one steady round of labor. I now 
think we would have done better if in the 
first place we had piped the water from 
our spring. At any rate this has really 
shown us the true value of a water sup¬ 
ply. I think we must come to irrigation 
before long, and in that event we shall 
want the well, the spring and also the 
brook at the lower end of the farm. 
I wish to say a word on the shooting 
in the dark at chicken thieves. Your 
advice “to load with salt and aim high” 
will suit two classes of persons. Every 
chicken thief in the United States will 
approve that advice. Then, that pretty 
large class of goody-good people will fully 
approve your plan. This latter class in- , 
eludes the people who sign petitions to 
have criminals pardoned and who are 
strongly opposed to soldiers. One of 
these goody-good fellows is opposed to 
the construction of battleships—wants to 
rely entirely on the Bible in cases of in¬ 
ternational disputes. Say, instead of! 
loading with salt and aiming high, would 
it not be better to take the Bible out and, ■ 
in a loud voice read, “Thou shalt not 1 
steal.” B. M. R. 
Another good thing to read might be : 
Thou shalt not hill!" 
It looks as if I am in the minority on 
this shooting business. There are some 
fierce fighters abroad and many of them 
have suffered so severely from chicken 
thieves that they bitterly resent any 
thought of mercy. I have no desire to 
shoot anyone. I think a good active dog 
will take care of most thieves. I do not 
know that anyone ever called me “goody- 
goody,” though a goodly number of names 
have been thrown this way. Count me. 
however, as one opposed to war and bat¬ 
tle. Personally I rejoice that this nation 
has avoided war with Mexico. I hear 
fire-eaters now and then telling what great 
things they would do on the battlefield, 
but it is doubtful if they would ever get 
within gunshot of danger. I know all 
about war that I care to. In the Civil 
War my father and two of his brothers 
were killed, and another was wounded. 
That made a large hole in a family which 
lived on the earnings of the men folks 
from day to day. You cannot toll me a 
thing about what war means to the 
widows and children who are left to fight 
the world when husband and father are 
killed. No war for your humble servant. 
I think my father’s generation did all the 
fighting which may reasonably be ex¬ 
pected of our family! As for chicken 
thieves I will bet on a good Airedale to 
tear their clothes off. ii. av. c. 
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