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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
DRESSING TALKS 
Some time ago we announced that ARCA¬ 
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But now the war is over, and with an honor¬ 
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available for use as a nitrogenous fertilizer. 
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also an admirable spring top dressing for fall-sown grains and timothy. 
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A Problem in Water Supply 
I have a problem to secure an ade¬ 
quate water supply for my farmhouse, 
where I am planning to install a bath¬ 
room. House is located on a hilltop with 
two 20-foot wells which get low in a very 
dry season, and would be inadequate for 
a supply of running water. Shall I take 
a chance on drilling a well, hoping to 
reach a sufficient supply at 150 feet or 
less, but with a possibility of being 
obliged to go much deeper, which would 
make it exceedingly expensive? The al¬ 
ternative would be to bring water from a 
spring (or well dug in soft or swampy 
ground) at the foot of the hill, about 35 
rods from the house. I think the supply 
could be relied upon. At the base of the 
hill there is a good spring, and about four 
rods from the spring a soft spot about 
two rods in diameter where a home will 
sink in to his knees even in times of se¬ 
verest drought. S. M. A. 
Hertford, Conn. 
The source of water used on most farms 
is that of the ground water direct. In 
very few cases is a supply taken from a 
stream or lake. It is usually obtained 
from one of the many kinds of wells that 
are in use. The ground water spoken of 
may be compared to a very slowly mov¬ 
ing stream of water moving through the 
soil, a great river, as it were, whose 
whole bed to the top of the banks is filled 
with sand and gravel or other soil ma¬ 
terial through which the water seeps on 
its way to lower levels and the sea. 
Though not paralleling the ground sur¬ 
face, the surface of this immense body of 
ground water follows it more or less 
closely; that is, under a hill or rise of 
ground will be found an elevation in the 
surface of the ground water body, but not 
at all comparing in acuteness with the 
elevation of the earth’s surface; the water 
tends more nearly to form a plain. 
For information 
as to applica¬ 
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To give you an idea of the probable 
amount of water that you will need, the 
usual basis for figuring the capacity of 
farm plants is to allow -10 gallons per 
person for all purposes. It is probable 
that somewhat less will be used. It is 
reported that New York City uses 32 gal¬ 
lons daily per person. Little advice of 
value can be given you regarding the best 
location of this well without being on the 
spot. A study of wells similarly situated 
in connection with the advice of a good 
local well driller would probably be of 
more service to you than would anything 
that I might say from here. However, 
with the facts that have been brought for¬ 
ward in mind, let us consider the case. 
In the first place, water of unquestioned 
purity is wanted. Though the drilled well 
is not an absolute guarantee of this, some¬ 
times tapping a supply that is contamin¬ 
ated by a distant source of pollution, it is 
much more likely to be safe than a dug 
well. It would be very much more likely 
to be safe than would a shallow well dug 
in the springy spot that you mention. A 
well drilled in the bottom of one of the 
20-foot wells that you speak of. if properly 
protected around the top of the pipe to 
prevent the entrance of surface water, 
could be expected to furnish a very good 
quality of water. 
With t ho use of the sanitary utilities 
implied by your letter would come the 
demand for more water than you would 
wish to pump by hand, hence some power 
system would be used. As your bouse is 
on a hilltop it is probable that it would 
be too far above the springy spot men¬ 
tioned to permit the use of a pump at tlie 
house, making it necessary to place the 
power plant at the well. .35 rods distant. 
This would not be as handy an arrange¬ 
ment as it would be to have the plant in¬ 
stalled at one of the wells nearer the 
house, as the pump and engine will re¬ 
quire some attention. Then, too, the pres¬ 
ence of a spot of this kind is not always 
an indication of water in sufficient quan¬ 
tities. I happen to know of one case 
where a well was dug in the bottom of a 
little pond hole which held water well 
into the Summer, in the hope of finding 
water sit a shallow depth for watering 
cattle. Water was not reached, however, 
until the well had been sunk 25 to 50 feet. 
A well is a lifetime investment if p op- 
erly constructed. Furthermore, a safe 
well—one that is sanitary and free from 
contamination of any kind—may lead to 
a much longer lifetime in which the in¬ 
vestment may be enjoyed. Measured over 
a term of years of this length, an in¬ 
crease in the first cost will show but 
very little increase in yearly costs, and 
if the higher priced well is located in a 
February 15, 1919 
handier position and is furnishing water 
of undoubted purity in plentiful amounts 
so that no sickness can be traced to it as 
a cause, it may even show a much cheaper 
yearly cost. R. n. s. 
Trouble with Pump 
Will you tell me how I can draw water 
from the well some distance from house 
and barn? There is 25% feet of pipe in 
the well, with foot valve. Would a check 
valve help? We have had a force pump 
on this all last Winter, but it worked 
hard and slow. We have now tried a 
lever pump; it would not work any bit¬ 
ter. Would it help any to let down the 
pipe in the barn and attach a cylinder 
down about, five feet to pump above? R. 
Orchard Park, N. Y. 
As has been pointed out repeatedly in 
these columns, the only force available 
to raise water to the cylinder of the farm 
pump is the weight of the air envelope 
surrounding the earth, or atmospheric 
pressure, as it is called. This amounts 
to about 14.7 pounds per square inch, 
and while water can be raised to any 
height, limited only by the strength of tin- 
pump and the source of power operating 
it, after it once passes the lower valve 
of the cylinder, this pressure of 14.7 
pounds is all we have to bring the water 
to this point. This pressure will sup¬ 
port a column of water about 34 feet in 
height, but to raise it to this height in a 
pump is not practical, because of the fact 
that no pump is perfect enough to draw a 
perfect vacuum, and if it were the weight 
of the water column and that of tjie at¬ 
mosphere would be so nearly balanced 
that water would flow into the cylinder 
too slowly. As a matter of fact. 25 feet 
of water is about the maximum height in 
practice, and pumps usually work much 
better, other things being equal, when 
this distance is much less. 
Tattle would be gained by placing the 
pump as suggested by the inquirer, for 
the water would still have to be forced by 
atmospheric pressure up over the horizon¬ 
tal pipe, which, if installed as he sug¬ 
gests, would lie above the cylinder. There 
might be a slight gain by the assurance 
that the cylinder was no higher than the 
highest point of the horizontal line, but 
this could probably be as easily met by 
digging the ditch in which the pipe lies a 
foot or so deeper. Neither would the ad¬ 
dition of check valves help, provided the 
foot valve in the well is working proper¬ 
ly. This insures that the pump is always 
primed and that the lower valve of the 
cylinder is relieved of the strain of car¬ 
rying the entire weight of water in the 
pipe. The pump will always probably 
work somewhat hard and slowly because 
of the conditions that are imposed upon it. 
However, the use of large diameter pip¬ 
ing. carefully laid, with tight joints, so 
that there is no possible air leak, will help 
some. The use of small piping causes a 
swifter flow of water in the pipe which 
greatly raises the friction. 
In addition, the use of a vacuum cham¬ 
ber, made from a short length of large- 
size piping, fitted at the top with a cap 
and at the bottom end with a reducer .by 
means of which a nipple can be used to 
connect this vacuum tank to a tee in the 
main line near the pump, will be an aid. 
Its action is to cushion the sudden start¬ 
ing and stopping of the water column in 
tin- pipe, permitting it to be started and 
stopped more slowly and therefore easier. 
R. it. s. 
Operation for the Tongue-tied 
Is there any cure or operation to cure 
young people who are tongue-tied? If so, 
what is the cure, and, if an operation, 
how dangerous is it? j. s. 
Watkins, N. Y. 
It should not be too readily assumed 
that a defect in speech in childhood is due 
to a tying down of the tongue, though, in 
rare instances, the tongue is so bound 
down for nearly its whole length as to 
interfere with the pronunciation of some 
sounds. An examination should readily 
determine whether or not any physical 
defect of the tongue is responsible for de¬ 
fective spei -'id no opcnition should 
be attempted without competent advice. 
In most cases, other causes, sometimes 
mental, will be found for the trouble, and 
any operation upon the tongue will prove 
useless. m. B. l). 
