The native American., 1838-10-20
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plentiful supply of pure water is above all price.

WATER.
plentiful supply of pure water is above all price.
There is nothing more essential to farmer
than good water, and plenty of it. For domestic
purposes, and for stock, it has much to do with
health, convenience and comfort. In many situ-
atlons there is no lack of this indispensable arti-
Gle, but in others it is so deficient or impure as to
require some artificial means of increasing the
supply and improving its salubrity. Where it is
obtained from wells, they should be sunk so deep
as to secure an abundance during the periods Of
the greatest droughts, for then it is that its impu-
rites are most concentrated. During the dry
weather of autumn, when vegetation is decaving,
and the springs weak, the foul gases which
are eXhaled from the earth are absorbed by the
water of wells, springs and ponds; and this, act
ing in conjunction with the vegetable matter that
is always found in water that is stagnan or nearly
so, makes deleterious compound which isneither
fit for man nor beast to partake Of much less to be
used for culinary purposes. Dysenery and fall
fevers can often be traced to this prolific source of
poison, and many valuable lives every year are
no doubt sacrificed by the use Of impure water,
which by proper attention to deepening and clean
ing out wells and springs, would have been pre-
served. well with few buckets of water only
in it, is not sufficient; every time you pump or
draw from it, its impurities are stirred up, and
you get large dose of them. Some who have
pumps in wells fail to secure them from the run
ming in of foul water and vegetable matter, which
always abound in the neighbcrhood of springs,
and by that means, even where there is an abun-
dant supply of water, it is frequently much con-
taminated. Every well should be carefully ex-
amined and cleansed annually, if you desire to
have pure water for family use. Water enters
largely into all culinary processes, and it is feared
that many are not sufficiently aware of the dan
ger they incur by the use Of it, when in an i'm
pure state. Generally, throughout the alluvial
parts of New Jersey, and tie States south oft,
water is obtained by digging few feet only, but
it is seldom otherwise than impure, and very Of
fensive to those who have not been educated in
the use of it. This arises from it's passing
through beds of mari or other strata which saturate
it with impurities and destroy its salubrty. tits
presumed that with little extra trouble and ex-
, pense by boring or digging through the beds of
foul deposite till pure sand is arrived at, which it
is believed might be easily and cheaply accom-
plished, New Jersey would be found to furnish as
good, pure, wholesome water as is obtained in
the more elevated districts of our country. The
business of boring is now well understood, and
can be accomplished quickly, and at little ex-
pense in alluvial deposites which are free from
StolleS "A Iii OF one OF some Otner
metal should be inserted to depth which would
penetrate the pure clean sand, and if this was
properly done judging from what has occurred in
other countries. in many instances, an overflow
| ing fountain of pure. wholesome water would re-
ward the care and enterprise of those who may
undertake so meritorious work. If this were
accomplished in single instance, it would soon
be repeated by hundreds of others, who would
desire to be partakers of like benefits; and New
Jersey, with its inexhaustible beds of mari to fer
tilize its soil, and an overfowing supply of the
most wholesome water, would flourish beyond all
former examples. In most cases, it is believed
boring and tubing would cost less than digging
and walling well and putting pump in it, and
if it was properly executed it would require no
further care to keep it clean. Whoever may ac-
complish this grand object will deserve seat in
the Legislature; and if fountain of overhowing
water should crown his efforts, he might he sent
to Congress with great propretv as reward for
good conferred on his fellow citizens by his en-
erprise.
d Clsterns are often valuable resort to collect
and preserve the water from the roofs of buildings
for washing and other purposes, but they are Of
ten badly built, and when that is the case, they
are a source of disappointment and vexation.
They should always be round, and the bottom
concaVe, so as not 10 nave an angie IN their con-
struction, for it is found more difficult to make
them water tight if there is an angle or sharp
corner in the wall. They should be built with
the greatest care and circumspection, and well
covered in, so to exclude extraneous matter
Csterns or cellars fourteen feet in depth are said
to preserve an equable temperature winter and
summer; when of less depth it will vary with
the state of the atmosphere. The importance OF
having water in a barn yard for cattle or stock,
need not be suggested to any farmer who under
stands his true interest; those who are thus sup
piled can best tell what they annually by 1t
in that most precious article, manure. Cattle
should never go outside of barn yard during the
season of foddering; the loss occasoned by it in
one winter would dig well or build cistern,
and leave a surplus for other purposes, where a
large stock is kept.-farmer's Cabinet,
AGRIcoLA.