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WELL-DIGGING EXPERIENCE. 
S OME time ago I noted an inquiry in 
regard to the height of water in 
driven well. I remember one well that 
was dug six feet in diameter, 12 feet 
deep, and dug into what was a spring of 
water running through gravel. This well 
served for a number of years for house 
use. hut in dry weather would go dry. 
We finally took up all the stones and 
dug eight feet more into the well. This 
additional eight feet was all sand and 
limestone ground, but we dug as far as it 
was possible to do without using a steam 
pump down through the sand and gravel, 
and finally quit, although it would be 
hard to tell how much farther it would 
have been possible to dig in gravel before 
we reached either rock or blue hardpan 
soil. This additional eight feet of well 
made considerable difference as to the 
amount of water furnished. 
Another well we dug (found by peach 
twig) 6^5 feet in diameter to a depth of 
19 feet, when we found a small vein 
wHieh would furnish considerable water, 
but the peach twig said lots of water, so 
we kept on digging and dug an additional 
seven or eight feet in hardpan, so hard 
that it was comparable to good cement 
work. At 26 feet we encountered soft 
marl-like dirt, and after cleaning out a 
foot of this in came the water, bringing 
with it sand in abundance. In four hours 
this well was half full of water and in a 
few more hours was within three feet of 
top of well. We drew out 100 pails of 
water, only lowering it one or two inches, 
and this soon filled up again to its level. 
This well was impossible to stone, so 
we made a plank crib three feet square 
and weighted to bottom by main force, 
using three sections of this square crib 
in a circular well; then dropped stones 
on all the four sides of the cribbing; the 
cribbing and stones raised the level of the 
well so it overflowed, and this well over¬ 
flows six or eight months every year. 
Now here was a case where lumber and 
stones raised the level about three feet. 
On land about 30 feet lower and 50 rods 
away from this well another well was 
dug into which the water flowed so fast 
that the diggers were so afraid that they 
dumped into the well everything at hand, 
ashes, logs, stones, dirt, etc. This acted 
as a check and the well was afterwards 
cleaned out about 15 feet and planking 
put in ; this well has never failed to fur¬ 
nish an abundance of water. 
I have also a well over an immense 
spring which was dug six feet in 
diameter, six feet deep, when water and 
sand in abundance was found. I then 
dropped, or pushed, into the soil all 
around the well, a heavy crowbar, four 
and six feet deeper. This in sand water 
and gravel. To stone this well I had to 
stand in water three feet deep and place 
the stones two and three feet under 
water. This well runs over now nearly all 
the time the year around, at the ground 
level. This spring’s overflow was used 
by the Baptists 100 years ago to baptise 
their converts, and the wooden tank made 
of pine is still there in fair condition. 
This section is the finger lake section of 
New York State. Many people suppose 
that there are underground streams of 
water running from one lake to another, 
but at least there are strong streams of 
water running underground cropping out 
here and there, put there by an All Wise 
Creator for man’s use. There is also 
more or less that can be said in regard to 
the different levels of these springs. 
There are many of them that could be 
used much more than they now are by 
opening them and allowing the water to 
flow into large reservoirs, thus banking 
up power that could be used to store 
energy at nominal cost. F. M. P. 
New York. 
Sowing Oats and Peas. —We sowed 
IV 2 bushel of peas with the same quan¬ 
tity of oats to the acre last year, resulting 
in a very small proportion of peas in the 
hay. This year we sowed a bushel of 
peas and 1 % bushel of oats, and at har¬ 
vest time almost no peas. We sowed 
them in the drill together. I do not know 
what the soil is as far as acid is con¬ 
cerned, but would consider it a gravelly 
loam. I have 20 acres that I want to 
put to oats and peas next year, and I 
would like to know from some one who 
has experience what proportion I should 
sow. G. D. 11 . 
New York. 
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