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House & Garden 
^ Underground System for Gardens 
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Overhead System for Gardens 
“Do your bit” to increase 
the country’s food supply 
by making your garden produce its maximum. 
Insure the success of your planting and make 
the most of your expenditure for seeds and 
fertilizer. Each foot of soil will yield its utmost, 
regardless of heat or protracted drouth, if you 
install the 
Sy&tems of Irrigation 
An arrangement of underground piping leads the 
water to upright sprinklers capped with the famous 
Rain Cloud Nozzles which deliver a fine spray or a 
heavy rain, as you prefer, over every part of the gar¬ 
den. The volume and heaviness of the shower can 
be controlled perfectly, giving just the amount and 
character of irrigation which you need. Cultivation is 
not interfered with by this installation. 
For your lawns use the Cornell Underground sys¬ 
tem with Rain Cloud Nozzles. Perfect irrigation over 
the whole area and no interference with mowing. 
Write for illustrated literature. 
W. G. CORNELL CO. 
Engineers and Contractors 
Plumbing, Heating, Lighting, Automatic 
Sprinklers, Water Supply Systems, Sewage 
Disposal Plants, Automatic Sewage Ejectors. 
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A successful grouping shows engine 
house and elevated tank in a compact 
unit. Below the tank is provided a 
room for tools 
Country Ho use Wa ter Systems 
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taken to provide the tank with some 
measure to guard against overflow. 
Such a mishap might mean much 
damage to the rooms and goods be¬ 
low. Perhaps the best form of tank 
is built of plank, with proper rein¬ 
forcements and stay rods, and lined 
with tinned copper. Another way is 
to build the wooden structure like a 
mill penstock—planks laid flat, one 
on another, each course tarred and 
spiked together. Whatever form of 
tank may be used, it is necessary that 
the house structure be designed to 
carrj' the extra load involved. 
Elevated Tanks 
In connection with this we might 
mention the elevated tank, which is 
incorporated in a tower, forming 
part of the house structure and de¬ 
sign. In a low, rambling layout, this 
has decided artistic possibilities and 
is practical and cheap where the 
space below the tank may be effec¬ 
tively used for house purposes. This 
form of tank is not of recent origin, 
and many examples may be found in 
the rambling structures along the 
coast. Where the nearness of our 
supply will admit of it, such treat¬ 
ment is not to be passed by lightly. 
The isolated cousin of the forego¬ 
ing is the common wooden stave tank 
seen so commonly in its unadorned 
state, elevated on a wooden frame¬ 
work. It is a thoroughly good arti¬ 
cle and is frost-proofed against the 
extremes of weather. But as a thing 
of beauty, it is just about four hun¬ 
dred per cent minus. However, by 
enclosing the supporting framework, 
preferably in some form that has in¬ 
terior utility, and by covering it with 
something that looks like a roof, it 
may become even attractive. This 
may be done at no great expense, and 
the further planting of shrubs will 
add much to the general effect. If 
one cared to, he might even go a step 
farther and enclose the tank itself. 
Only it should be remembered that 
the hoops may have to be tightened 
and that space for a passage should 
be allowed around the tank to effect 
this. Furthermore, a window or two 
and a full length door should be left 
for use in case of emergency. 
Where we have a natural elevation 
to rely upon, the tank may be set on 
the ground, or what is better, built 
in it. With the former condition, we 
have but eliminated the supports of 
a stilted tank, and the structure may 
be enclosed in wood in a manner sim¬ 
ilar to that of the elevated form. 
Such a tank may be even built of 
masonry and have an enclosing wall 
of earth, between it and an outer 
shell of masonry. Of course, there 
will be an outward pressure, which is 
best withstood by concrete in which 
are incorporated sufticient reinforc¬ 
ing rods. It is a matter of taste 
whether or not the lining be of hard 
brick; but under any circumstances, 
the walls should flare on the inside 
like a dish, to avoid difficulties in 
case of freezing. In these detached 
structures, it is well to observe a 
certain harmony with the house de¬ 
sign as well as a simpler rendering 
of the same. 
The underground tank may be uti¬ 
lized when sufficient height is obtain¬ 
able. Its construction is that of the 
ordinary circular cistern, and it may 
be lined with brick domed in at the 
top and making a permanent form 
for the enclosing concrete shell. It 
is not necessary that it be entirely 
below the ground level, as its pro¬ 
truding portion may well be earth 
and sod covered to the opening at the 
top. But it is altogether desirable 
that an interesting shrub and tree 
planting be devised to remove any 
possibility of the mound being mis¬ 
taken for the grave of the family 
skeleton or a pet elephant. 
Force and Lift Pumps 
The problem of lifting water from 
its source is solved by the pump. If 
it be merely a case of lifting it from 
the ordinary well for the pail or 
trough, the ordinary un freezable 
chain pump is perhaps the best agent 
obtainable. Buf our problem involves 
more than this, and hence we have to 
do with the force and lift pump, of 
which there are many good makes. 
These pumps work on the plunger 
principle and are the ordinary type. 
For a well that is well filled, what 
is termed an “air lift” pump may be 
used to good advantage. The prin¬ 
ciple is simple: air under pressure is 
conveyed into the lower end of the 
water or educt pipe, which by the 
way does not touch the bottom of 
the well. The small air pipe may be 
either inside or outside the educt 
pipe. The pressure of the air through 
the former raises the water in the 
latter and forces it toward its place 
of ultimate delivery. 
If the water in the well does not 
rise near the top, another sort of air 
pump may be used. In the “direct air 
pressure” pump, ithe water is taken 
into air-tight tanks connected with 
the educt pipe just above the surface 
of the water. Compressed air applied 
to the water in the tanks forces it 
through the pipe to a higher level. 
In a cramped space such as a cellar, 
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