Farm Mechanics 
Cleaning a Well 
How <iin T clean a brick well? The 
water tastes like wood, and is not clear. 
Do you think charcoal or lime would be 
good? w. T. 
Ilaminontou, X. J. 
There would be little use in trying to 
dear the water of a well before the 
source of the trouble was discovered and 
removed! All investigation of the sur¬ 
roundings of Ibis well should be made 
to discover an\ source of pollution, such 
as a nearby vault or a barnyard or sink 
hole which may be draining into the well 
above or below ground. It is ipiite possi¬ 
ble that contaminated surface water is 
reaching the well at or just beneath the 
surface of the ground about the well, all 
ground, of course, being now saturated 
by the melting snow. If the trouble is 
of recent occurrence this would be a 
plausible explanation of the woody taste. 
Neither charcoal, lime nor any other sub¬ 
stance would help while pollution was 
going on, and the lir^t thing to do is to 
discover the cause of the trouble. 
31. 13. l>. 
Mending Water Jacket 
On page 141 of your paper, I notice the 
headline “Engine With Cracked Water 
Jacket.” Without commenting on the 
different ways which you describe, here is 
the way to'fix it: Drill a %-in. hole in 
the side of the water jacket a little below 
the crack, and another in the top; bend a 
bolt to lit these holes and cut a thread on 
each end. put a burr and washer on the 
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end below the crack and screw it up; 
then put a burr and washer on the upper 
end and screw that up. By doing this 
you will draw the crack together and it 
will not crack any further. 1 have re¬ 
paired automobile engines aud farm en¬ 
gines in this way. and it always works. 
Michigan. ii. w. gowdy. 
On page 141. under the heading, “En¬ 
gine with Cracked Water Jacket.” I. F*. 
of Denver. Pa., asked about repairing it. 
1 had a similar ease two years ago and 
soldered it with common solder. I have 
never had any trouble with it and think 
it will answer his case. .?. it. .)«. 
Montpelier, Vt. 
Removing Obstructions from a Ditch 
Recently Supervisor H. J. Silsby let 
the contract for clearing away obstruc¬ 
tions in a 10-mile ditch running through 
the town of Hartland. N. Y.. and drain¬ 
ing a number of farms near by. Tlie 
Niagara County Farm Bureau wanted to 
see how dynamite would work in sections 
where the ditch channel had filled almost 
level with the surface, due to the growth 
in it of a lot of bushes and willow trees 
four to six inches in diameter. Two par¬ 
allel rows of holes were put down in the 
bottom of the old ditch, two feet apart, 
also two feet apart in the row.' A pound 
of 40 per cent ammonia dynamite was 
tamped in each bole. An electric blasting 
cap in each charge was the firing me¬ 
dium.. The soil was muck to a depth of 
about two feet, underlaid with a sand and 
clay subsoil. There was a snowstorm in 
progress when the work was done and 
the ground was slightly frozen. There 
were 15 charges laid in the test section, 
covering a distance of about 20 running 
tcot. The shots blew the trees out with 
tlie dirt and lowered the ditch bottom 
about. 2% feet. It was about three feet 
wide at the bottom, sloping up to a width 
of eight or nine feet at the top. The 
cost for explosives figured about 30 cents 
per running foot. The fact that the 
standing trees had to be shot out with the 
dill was realized to be tlie cause of the 
mgher cosh than would be reasonable for 
clear earth excavation. n. j. 
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