Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1851-04-30
For the Lcwisburg Chronicle.
Water in Barn Yards-A Svph0n.

be to many others.
| have now fountain of water within
FIVE rods of my manure pile, and running
water constantly, except in a very dry
time, when it sometimes fails for few
for few weeks only. have no spring
or running stream on the surface of my
farm, land therefore no opportunity to bring
wafer in pipes, and ram | thought too
expensive, considering the distance |
should have to 90 to get water by those
means. But some distance from my barn
there was winter spring where water
oozed out in wet time, ran onr the ground
a few rods, and then sunk away. | took
the water level from this winter spring to
the lowest ground near my barn-yard, and
found there were fifteen feet fall. There was
no appearance of water at the head at the
time, but upon digging short distance a
small stream was struck the well was
dug fourteen feet deep. In this well |
laid a half-inch leaden pipe, from the bot
tom Of the well to within a few feet of the
top; from there to the place where the wa
ter discharges, the pipe is laid deep enough
to prevent the plow from interfering.
Where the water is discharged, the pipe
is inserted in pump-stock made about
fifteen inches under ground, and in the
stock there are a box and sucker with
lever attached, 50 as to start it or draw off
the mud that should collect in the pipes
and it flows as regular fountain out of
this pump-stock, about a foot above the
ground, so that the box and sucker are
always under water, which is necessary to
preserve them. The pipe and laying, cost
;bout SIS; digging the well and trench,
s2a total cost, say SO in all: distance,
665 feet.
In this way, many a farm may be made
more convenient for watering stock, at Il
small expense, By syphon, water may
be taken from one hollow over any hill to
Il lower hollow. A dug well in barn.
yard with a good supply Of water will .
answer the purpose if not too deep with
considerable labor. When water can not
be procured at Il reasonable depth, and
none Of those other advantages to procure
water seem practicable, then | would say.
Have 4 cis.crn made so as to hold all the
water that may pass off the barn-roofs and
so fixed that the water may all be dis
charged at one gable end. And should
any of your numerous readers take my
advice in this matter, let me further advise
them not to have their descending pipes
put on the north end of their barn, for if
they are, the snow will often melt in the
sun and fill the pipes with ice which will
stay there until late in the spring, and all
the snow water he lost. This | have Z
found to my own loss. The south side of
the barn is the place for the pipes, because
it is the warmest, and will keep the pipes
most open.
If any of the foregoing plans to secure
handy watering places for stock are adopted,
the result will greatly benefit the stock, and
save much valuable manure. J. G.
Deer Park, East Buffalo, April 26. /.
Elgs0n the first page our readers will
find this week an interesting reminiscence
of the s.Kloss White Blue-Stem Wheat"
which since its original discovery by
Christian Kloss, on his farm in the lower
end Of this county, it will be seen has
gained for itself wide spread reputation.
The account will be interesting to all our
readers in this section, and new to many
Of them. The Maine Farmer calls it "an
invaluable variety of wheat" and William
\. Drew, of the Gospel Banner in COM
mrk,ication to the Farmer subsequent to
the one we give on the first page, states
he never saw Mr. Snyder's statement be-
fore, but supposed the wheat came from
the Baltic. He says he called 1t the
:. Banner Wheat for the sake of brevity,
and because it is the best wheat to be
found in the State of Maine, and adds
81 how it could have orr ginated in Union
county, Pennsylvania, without coming
from anywhere, is one Of those freaks OF
nature which are sometimes as munihcent
us they are strange and incredible. But
wherever it came from, it is enough that
it is here, and that it is superior grain,
He states that there are now some SIX
thousand acres of the Kloss wheat, grow
ing out of the soil, chiefly in the kennebec
Valley. And last fall he had applications
for the seed from every county in the
State lie says "there will be much OF
it raised this year hope; but it will all
be needed, for seed. Another year, If 1t
does well, Maine may be independent"
We do not know whether Christian Kloss
is still living, to rejoice in the success Of
,ba s;nole head of wheat he SO carefully /