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February 9, 1924 
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Conducted by Robert H. Smith, of the Canton Agricultural School 
Canton, New York 
Installing Water System 
. .1 am thinking of installing a water sys¬ 
tem in my buildings and am sending a 
sketch. If I work according to the sketch 
I expect the material I shall have to buy 
will cost me about ,$200 (for pump, pipe 
lines and cement), besides my own work 
in digging 700 feet of 3-foot ditch for pipe 
line and excavating and concreting cis¬ 
tern. I have a 2-h.p. gasoline engine 
for power. A power company has been 
planning for about a year to run a line 
close enough to my place that I should 
want my buildings wired for lights any¬ 
way and could then install a tank pres¬ 
sure system for about $140. I keep from 
15 to 20 head of stock in my barn. Which 
system do you think would be the best 
investment for me? If I get the electric 
power I could still work a motor on the 
elevated system and have it work auto¬ 
matically, but would the concrete cistern 
be enough advantage over the pressure 
Blower for Corn Stalks 
I am thinking of building a blower for 
blowing whole stalks from a six-roll corn 
busker to about a 25-foot mow, and also 
for blowing straw from a threshing ma¬ 
chine into a mow. The drawing shows 
my proposed blower as near as I can ex¬ 
plain it. The stalks and straw would 
enter where marked “enter stalks or 
straw,” and catch the draft of air and be 
elevated through a pipe to the mow above. 
The fan below the entrance would gen¬ 
erate the draft of air. Would it be all 
right to feed the stalks into the pipe by 
gravity as shown in the first cut or be fed 
in by a endless carrier as in the second 
cut?' h. w. 
New York. 
The fan a^ you have it outlined in the 
sketch forwarded could not work. The 
air blast in the pipe that is used for ele- 
Concrete cistern 
8ft. diameter, 8 ft. deep 
tank to justify the extra expense? By 
using the size pipe mentioned in sketch 
I believe I could have bathroom on second 
floor without any difficulty. Would the 
floats on the stock waterers work against 
that pressure. There seems to be some 
lime present in the water I am using: in 
which system would it do the most dam¬ 
age? The well I have furnishes plenty 
of water. It is IS feet deep and the eleva¬ 
tion from top of well to top of cistern 
would be about 42 feet. Would a rotary 
pump work satisfactorily? J. T. J. 
Pennsylvania. 
It would seem from a study of your 
letter and sketch that you were making 
your estimate of expense rather low for 
the hillside gravity system. 
Unless you get a special rate the actual 
cost of pumping is likely to be more where 
a motor is used for power than where a 
well-adjusted’ engine of suitable size is 
used. To offset this, however, is the 
greater convenience of the electric drive. 
With a motor as the source of power, 
oue of the automatic water systems can 
be used which does away with the neces¬ 
sity of storing water either in a pressure 
tank or overhead tank. Only enough 
water is stored to maintain a pressure in 
the system and when this is released by the 
opening of a faucet a pressure-operated 
electric switch is closed and the motor 
starts pumping directly from the well to 
the point of use. When the faucet rs 
closed the motor stops again. 
As a makeshift arrangement until the 
power line comes, a pump-jack could be 
used with your engine and water pumped 
to a small galvanized iron storage tank 
in the stable, slung to the upper floor, 
used to supply the water buckets. 
If the gravity system were installed 
the floats could be arranged to control the 
vating material is due to the pressure 
created in the fan housing. Air has 
weight, and, as it enters at the center 
of the housing, is thrown to the outside 
of the casing, creating a pressure at this 
point and a partial vacuum or lowered 
pressure at the center of the fan. 
In the design of a blower for carrying 
material the entrance is placed at the 
center of the fan housing, at this point 
of low pressure. If an opening were left 
in the discharge pipe and a pressure 
created within the pipe by rotation of the 
fan as you suggest the air would blow¬ 
out of the opening just as surely as water 
would spurt from an opening cut in a 
hose between the pump and the nozzle. 
Because of this* center feed a blower is 
adapted for carrying fine materials or 
relatively fine materials only. In any 
case a blower requires more power for 
operation than a web carrier as it is con¬ 
tinually lifting a column of air as well 
as the material it is desired to move. In 
many cases, however, because of it’s con¬ 
venience, the blower is the best type of 
carrier to use. R. H. s. 
Removing Water from Cellar 
D. M. S., Waterford, N. Y., page 1578, 
asks about freeing his eellar of water. 
In the village of Schoharie, N. Y., two 
methods are employed. In some cellars 
an iron pipe is driven through the floor 
and in the earth to a depth of 12 or 
15 ft. Here it appears to reach gravel, 
and all the water disappears down the 
pipe. In other cellars a small pit or 
well is dug, and an automatic pump 
is placed in the pit and attached to the 
t>ipe supplying the house with water. 
There must be water under pressure. 
water all right. As to lime iu the water, 
this will be deposited in the coils of the 
range tank and of course would be pres¬ 
ent in the same amount regardless of the 
system used. If you secure a good sturdy 
pump and equipment it is my opinion that 
you will be better pleased with the elec¬ 
tric installation. . E- 11 • S. 
When the pit fills with water it starts 
the pump by means of a float, and when 
the pit is empty the pump stops. The 
amount of pressure required depends 
upon the height to which you elevate the 
water. In this case it could be raised 
sufficient to flow to other 'drains, or to 
the surface of the ground, ancl conducted 
away in pipes. d. w. s. 
Otego. N. Y. 
