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[  down  to  enable  my  farmer  friends  every¬ 
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Fireplace  Construction 
I  have  seen  quite  a  lot  of  questions  and 
answers  in  The  R.  N.-Y.  lately  in  regard 
to  fireplaces.  The  accompanying  diagram 
shows  a  back  wall  of  a  fireplace  wljicli 
was  built  in  Mr.  E.  H.  Gillett’s  house  in 
Polk  County,  Iowa.  It  wras  made  of  cast 
iron,  with  ribs  cast  on  which  alternated 
from  each  side,  and  air  is  admitted  on 
the  floor  line  and  travels  back  and  forth 
across  the  back  and  takes  its  exist  at  the 
top.  The  heating  of  the  back  makes  the 
air  travel  to  the  top.  I  cannot  give  you 
any  dimensions  as  to  the  ribs  or  the  num¬ 
ber,  but  I  do  know  that  it  heated  a  great 
Made  of  Cast  /ran 
Diagram  of  Fireplace 
deal.  If  this  drawing  was  made  isometric, 
it  would  explain  the  construction  of  the 
back.  I  hope  this  will  be  of  some  use  to 
someone.  j.  s.  s. 
Strasburg,  Ya. 
Mending  Leaking  Pipe 
When  a  boy  our  large  watering  tub 
for  cattle  would  almost  freeze  solid.  I 
tried  causing  water  to  fall  from  pipe  and 
cause  a  ripple  to  prevent  ice.  It  did 
right  near ;  still,  ice  was  so  thick  on  cold 
days  cattle  could  not  break  it.  Last 
Summer  pipe  sprung  a  leak,  and  I  made 
repairs,  causing  a  foot  less  length  of  pipe, 
so  I  put  on  a  piece  of  lawn  hose,  and  it 
was  so  long  it  reached  bottom  of  tub  and 
circled  round  a  little.  We  have  had 
almost  no  ice  in  tub  this  year.  The  ax 
was  not  used  onqe,  and  seldom  used  a 
board  for  the  purpose ;  usually  the  pail 
w’ould  break  it.  Whether  it  is  the  warm 
water  from  the  spring  run  in  at  the  bot¬ 
tom  of  the  tub,  then  gradually  rising, 
that  prevents  the  ice,  or  it  may  be  the 
circular  movement  caused  by  the  rubber 
hose  circling  around  a  bit  caused  the 
water  not  to  fasten  to  sides  of  tub  as  ice, 
I  know  not.  Try  it  out. 
When  at  the  head  of  the  music  depart¬ 
ment  of  Whitworth  College,  Mississippi, 
I  made  a  wire  basket  to  catch  a  ball  over 
a  fountain,  and  as  all  know,  balance  it 
on  a  column  of  water.  Then  for  some 
reason  I  put  on  a  water  bottle  hose  about 
15  in.  long,  and  to  my  surprise  it  acted 
as  if  it  wms  alive.  The  greater  and  less 
pressure  of  water  would  make  it  flop  one 
way  and  another  as  if  it  were  a  living 
thing.  Tell  the  boys  of  it.  r.  d. 
New  York. 
Keep  the  Water  Running 
R.  R.  S.  says  that  a  pipe  line  has  to  be 
put  down  below  freezing  line.  Some  years 
ago  I  spent  the  Winter  at  an  old  logging 
camp  in  the  mountains  in  Vermont.  The 
water  supply  was  piped  about  2,000  ft. 
from  a  spring,  the  water  running  all  the 
time.  The  pipe  was.  I  think,  within  6  in. 
of  the  surface  of  the  ground  the  entire 
distance,  and  though  the  Weather  Bureau 
thermometer  went  to  29  degrees  below, 
and  averaged  below  zero  for  three  months, 
the  water  ran  steadily  all  the  time.  We 
crossed  this  line  with  a  steam  shovel  and 
carried  the  pipe  on  the  surface  of  the 
ground,  exposed  to  the  air,  and  generally 
not  even  protected  by  snow,  and  always 
had  -water  until  further  up  the  shovel 
broke  the  pipe,  the  water  stopped  flowing 
and  settled  in  the  low  spots  in  the  pipe, 
and  I  suppose  in  10  minutes  at  least  a 
fourth  of  the  pipe  line  was  a  solid  chunk 
of  ice.  I  would  say  that  with  spring 
water  entering  a  pipe  with  no  more  than 
one-half  a  mile,  to  go  there  would  be  no. 
danger  of  freezing,  even  though  the  pipe 
laid  on  top  of  the  ground,  but  the  flow 
must  not  be  stopped.  e.  m.  moore. 
Maryland. 
Training  Horns  of  Oxen 
On  page  489  T.  I.  L.,  Portville,  N.  Y.. 
inquires  how  to  change  the  shape  of  the 
horns  of  one  of  his  oxen.  I  would  suggest 
the  following  method  that  was  used  by 
my  father  many  years  ago :  Where  he 
wants  the  horn  to  turn  up  more,  scrape 
the  horn  on  the  upper  side  until  the  horn 
is  quite  thin  ;  that  is.  the  shell  of  tlie  horn, 
and  at  the.  same  time  the  horn  on 
the  under  side,  and  follow  this  method 
persistently, .  and  I  think  after  a  few 
months  he  will  note  a  change  in  its  shape. 
New  York.  william  d.  halsey. 
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