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7She RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
September S, 1017 
No. 8 Spiral Wide Spreader 
Latest in International Harvester Spreaders! 
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THE LOUDEN MACHINERY COMPANY 
(Over SO Years in Business) 
Fairfield, Iowa 
2610 Court Street 
Water Problems 
Dynamiting a Well 
I have a dug well 14 feet deep stoned 
up with a dry wall. In a dry season the 
water is low and can only get about six 
pails of water daily. Owing to the high 
cost of casing for drilled wells I can 
ill afford to drill one. Would it be prac¬ 
tical to use about one-half stick of dyna¬ 
mite, say four or five feet below the bot¬ 
tom, to loosen the dirt, and would it de- 
.stroy the wall? Would use three-foot 
sewer pipe for casing below wall line in 
case the stone wall was intact, c. jr. i.. 
Forestville, N. Y. 
Do not use the dynamite; it will he 
almost sure to loosen the foundation of 
the stonework and cause the walls to fall 
in, because if enough explosive is used 
to do effective work it will tear things 
loose in the well bottom. There are only 
two ways of lowering that bottom. Either 
remove the stonework and dig the well 
deeper or drive a pipe in the center. If 
this proved the means of draining the 
present water from the well it could be 
cemented up again, and again you may 
strike another vein deeper down. My 
well was dry and stoned up originally 
.^0 feet deep, hut it always went dry dur¬ 
ing the hot months. The stonework was 
rmnoved and the center of the well deep¬ 
ened 30 feet more. This was then tile- 
cased and the 30 feet of stonework was 
replaced, making a GO-foot well. This 
never goes dry, although 1.5 or 20 feet 
of water is about the supply during the 
dry months. If you have a spring avail¬ 
able it could he piped to this iiresent 
well to help bridge over the trouble. 
H. E. C. 
Well Drainage in Kansas 
Those who have wet, soggy land are 
lucky. That means productivene.ss by 
drainage. In the Middle West we have 
no such land. Still we have to drain, be¬ 
cause of low places, where the surface 
water stands too long after a heavy rain. 
Between the water siqiply in the ground 
and the surface water is invariably a 
gritty impervious liardpan that no water 
can penetrate. Through this hardpan we 
drill wells to the water supply below. 
Then we dig our drains to those w'olls, 
put in drain pipes or tiling about 20 
inches deep, cover with straw, then fill 
up with sand. The sand drains the 
ponds. The tiling leads the surface water 
to the w'cll.s. The water then sinks to 
the level of the water in the grotind and 
the surface drainage is comidete. 
This filling the ditches with sand per¬ 
mits the working of the ground without 
any trouble and needs only looking after 
every 20 years, because the fine soil may 
in that time fill in and prevent capillary 
action. ciiarles fern. 
Kan.sas. 
Right to Fish 
In our neighborhood there is a pond 
which has always been fished until re¬ 
cently. The man who owned the saw 
mill died (there are 100 acres in the 
pond). Another man has bought it and 
forbids everybody to fish unless they pay 
him 50 cents. There are several other 
people who own land bordering on the 
water; one of them is my son-in-law. 
lie forbids anyone fishing from shore or 
from the highway. Can I fish from my 
son-in-law’s land with his ])ormission, 
and could I use a boat from his land? 
Could I fish through the ice in Winter? 
Baldwinville, Mass. w. P. L. 
By a very early law in Massachusetts 
and Maine, a natural pond of over 10 
acres is termed a “great pond,” and is 
open to the public for fishing and fowl¬ 
ing. Persons may “pass and reiiass on 
foot through any man’s property for that 
end, so they trespass not on any man’s 
corn or meadow.” This right of luiblic 
use still holds, although such ponds are 
under supervision of the Htate Fish and 
Game Commission which has stocked 
some of the ponds or lakes and regulated 
the right to fish thereafter for a term 
of years. The use of islands in public 
ponds is under control of the State 
Forestry department. In all small 
streams or ponds and in artificial ponds, 
small or large, the right to fish belongs 
to the persons owning the adjoining 
land. The mention of a savVmill sug¬ 
gests that the pond is artificial, and in 
that case anyone owning laud along the 
shore 'would have the right of fishing or 
boating in the pond. The owner of the 
mill cannot frobid fishing unless he 
owns all the land around the pond. 
G. B. F. 
Water Supply Problem 
I have a living spring 12 feet deej). 
It is walled up with stone. Would 
you advise me to cement it from top 
to bottom; that is a wall to keep out 
surface water? I would like to have 
the water in the house; my house is 300 
feet from spring. I have a 214 horse 
power engine. There is 15 foot fall from 
house to spring. Can I draw the water 
from house, or shall I have to force it 
and how large a pipe do I need? A. S. 
As the spring has been dug out and 
walled up, the old style of handling 
springs, in order to exclude surface 
water, you should dig a ditch around 
the well two feet deep and three feet 
from the wall, lay three inch tile in 
this trench, and have a good outlet at 
the lowest point. In back-filling the 
ditch, raise the earth and well-top a 
little above the surrounding surface of 
the ground. This will turn the immedi¬ 
ate surface water, and the drain around 
the well will insure against any sur¬ 
face water getting into the well. With 
the distanc'e and lift that you have, 
much better results will be obtained by 
placing the engine at the well to force 
the water up rather than at the upper 
end to draw it up. One and a quarter 
inch pipe will answer the purpose. 
IT. E. C. 
AILING ANIMALS 
Indigestion 
I have a calf about one month old that 
for the past two weeks keeps gritting its 
teeth nearly all the time. I feed three 
tablespoonfuls of calf meal in four quarts 
warm water, twice a day. Calf drinks it 
very slowly, and does not seem to have 
any ambition; eats very little hay. Its 
bowel movements seem natural. Am I 
overfeeding or what is the trouble, and 
what remedy can I use? ii. B. * 
New Jersey. 
The calf has indigestion. At once 
change feed to sweet skim-milk, or new 
milk, adding one ounce of limewater per 
pint. Stop the calf meal for the present 
and allow oats, bran and oil meal. 
_A. s. a. 
Erythema 
My cows are troubled with a skin dis¬ 
ease which re.semhles horses’ scratches. 
It extends half way to the gambrel 
joints, also around the nose, hut I think 
this comes from licking and rubbing the 
legs. I have used coal tar dip, which 
seems to help, but does not cure. The 
whole herd does a great deal of rubbing 
of all parts of the body. I washed them 
with the dip a number of times. Would 
you advise me as to what the disease is 
and the remedy? Their pasture is large¬ 
ly swampy. K. M. 
New York. 
Inflammation of the skin is present 
anl if it is the white skin that is af¬ 
fected it may have come from pasturing 
Alsike clover; St. .John’s wort may also 
cause a similar inflammation. You 
should have a trained veterinarian inve.s- 
tigate. Meanwhile wet the affected parts 
twice daily with a mixture of four 
ounces of Goulard’s extract, two ounces 
of glycerine and soft water to make one 
pint. A. s. A. 
Fistula of Milk Duct 
I have a cow four years old that cut 
one of her teats on barlied wire, so after 
it healed up there is a small hole through 
the side of the teat that leaks the milk. 
Gould it be fixed any way? 2. I also 
have ,a horse 23 years old, sound and 
all right excepting a fistula. It has been 
on since last Spring, hut has not broken 
ojien yet, hut think it will soon. Would 
it pay to treat this ca.se and how long 
would it take to cure it, if it could be 
cured? What is the best treatment? 
New Y’ork, F. s. 
1. When the cow is dry have a grad¬ 
uate A'eterinarian operate by freshening 
the edges of the fistulous tract by cutting 
right down to the duct, then dust the 
wound with iodoform and bandage with 
surgeon’s tape. It would be even better 
to have him close the opening by sutur¬ 
ing skin over it after freshening the 
wound as just described. Owners often 
operate in such conditions by burning 
the lining of the fistulas thoroughly with 
a red hot knitting needle. 2. You will 
have to employ a local graduate veteri¬ 
narian for the fistula of the withers and 
take his opinion, as we cannot give one 
confidently without making an examina¬ 
tion. A. S. A. 
