Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-11

- S''Ne>s
sun in the heavens.
| suppose nobody thinks that the water
gets bad without some cause, and yet they
talk just as if they believed 50. Seth
Twiggs has the right Of it, this bad taste
and smell almost invariably comes from
the surface. Now, Mr.. Editor, | don't
want to disturb the stomachs of your read.
ers, and prevent them from drinking wa
ter any more, for am teetoaller and be-
licve that Adams ale is about the best
article of drink that was ever put into a
tumbler. But l must say that l prefer a
pure article.
1t stands to reason that water will run
down HILL whether it is pure or foul, and
vii keep running till it finds the lowest
place, whether it's the bottom of the well
or the lower end of brook. We see this
when we dig ditch, or lay down tile.
If it is put down four feet in the earth, it
will draw the water on each side, for q
rod or more, right into it. If the soil is
very compact, or made up mainly of black
earth, it would probably absorb all often
sive matters in the water, until it became
saturated or charged with the foul case,
when good deal of filthy water would go
down into the drain and be carr ed or.
Now do not want to disgust any of your
readers. by telling them that the contents
of their sinks, vaults, and stt bles, drain
into their wells. They might take it as
an insult. But let tn, m just look at the
location of their sinks and vaults. If a
drain four + ct eep will druw W er, say
twenty-five feet distant, how far will a
W thirty or forty feet draw it?
Seth 1'wiggs thinks he cured his we
by putting tile into his gar' en-. tn 1t is
only part of the story, for the next sea.
son, he CEN ut d his privy vault, and i,
c,nte It's now go regularly to the compost
heap. The sink drain, too. that used tc
empty within ten feet of the mouth of tho
well, is now intercepted by row of tiles
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carrying the water after itlcaches, off into
the brook. The soil about his well is
loose gravel, after you get down some foul
or five feet, and this has been made still
more loose by the digging and stoning o
the well. The water would 60 through
the whole circumference back of the stones
for four or FIVE feet, about as readily a!
through sieve There is great absorb
ing powerin soils, but after q while tbc J
will not take up any more of the fou
gases, and the sink water, and other often
sise matters must 60 down to the level o
the water in the well, with very little fiji
tering.
How far well must be removed from
the sink and other offensive places, to keel
the water pure, will depend somewhat up
on the circumstances, as the depth of th'
WE'LL and the character of the soil. A
deep well, of course, would drain the sur
face much further than shallow one
Dea. Smiths well is thirty-fve feet deep
and there is nothing offensive upon tn,
surface nearer than three rods. | have NJ
doubt but there is a connection between
the sink drain and the WE'LL and that this
is the source, in most cases, Of bad wate
in wells.
But it will be asked, probably, by som,
wise-acre like Jake Frink, why then don
the water taste as bad in Winter as il
Summer? Jake don't sec that it makes
mighty difference whether he have fiv
pounds of good beef in his soup, or barrel.
knuckle of mutton In Winter, the SOU
is diluted. Rains fall abundantly, ant
not unfrequently raised ten feet or more
50 that they do not draw water from s.
great distance The water, too, is gen
orally much colder, as it comes to the ia
bic, and the bad taste, if there be any, i
not so perceptible, as in warm weather.
Seth Twiggs has hit upon the remedy
If garden is not tile drained, the sinl
receptacle should be cemented cister
You can only keep foul matters out 9
your well, by taking care of them Workc
into the compost heap, and then apple,
to the lands, they will give you nice veg