364 REPORT OF THE Farm SUPERINTENDENT OF THE 
WATER SUPPLY. 
The Station water supply is derived from a stratum of gravel 
and sand in a wooded hillside about one and one-half miles north- 
west from the Station. Up to this year the water has been col- 
lected in a small reservoir 6x6x4 feet. When full there would 
be about 350 gallons of water above the draught pipe. 
The water was collected by a main catch-water drain 1,700 feet 
long from a spring, and by numerous branches from the hillside 
above. 
This drain has supplied considerable water when active for its 
entire length, but owing to its open character has of course 
lost much of the water and cost a great deal in the way of 
reopening for repairs since its establishment under private 
ownership. 
Once or twice before, since the organization of the station, this 
ditch has been more or less thoroughly repaired and there has 
been at still other times, and in fact, nearly always during a dry 
time too little water to do more than run one thing at a time, 7. ¢., 
when water was being used for the green-house, the dairy and 
laboratory were necessarily cut off and vice versa. 
The past summer the whole main ditch was opened. Some i 
the main line and many of the laterals were found filled with roots ; 
the supply of water seemed abundant, if storage enough could be 
afforded to draw upon for a full day’s supply, or in case of an 
emergency. 
The old tiles as a main were abandoned and wrought iron pipes 
laid in their stead, with tile laid wherever there seemed to be a 
chance to bring in an additional supply of water. Iron laterals . 
were laid to small, deeply inclosed basins, which were often the 
termini of one to three lines of tiles that were laid to follow back 
some source of water and conduct it to the iron lateral. , 
By this means as much water was collected during the dryest 
part of the season as could be discharged through a 13 inch pipe 
with a fall of 7 feet in 700 feet of pipe. Some water is also received 
from pipes not connected with the long main. 
The total amount of De laid was 700 feet of 14 inch, and 1,500 
feet of 1 inch. 
