The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-10-27
HYDRAULIC RAMS.

There can be offered no eXcuser
for an insufficient supply or for impure water
for the stable and barn use, when IN aDond'
ant supply may be obtained at a small out
lay of labor and capital. There are out lew
farms in New England on when brook or
stream does not run near enough to the
hn;ldin,s. either above or below their eleva
,;on from which watar can be readily con.
viewed. Depending on wells, either excava,ed
or tubular, from which every drop of water
used BY the house and by the stock must be
pumped out by manual labor, is Improbable
and unnecessary. We have IN mind sever
al establishments in which all the water
used in the barn is carried by pailsiul from
pumps in the house, which involves very
considerable outlay oflsbor and time. There
ia no reason why the streams should not per.
form the labor Of furnishing the farm build.
inrs with water, either sending the water
down to them through pipes or small &C ue
ducts, if above them, or pumping the water
up 10 them, if flowing at a lower elevation.
The first method is simple one and easily
understood; the last can be best performed
bv means of an hydraulic RAM small stream
with hut n few feet fall will drive an abund-
ant snpplv of water through pipes with an
elevation of from fifty to one hundred feet,
the elevation being proportioned to the force
or fall of the stream.
| Those of our readers who have not seen q
water ram in operation, may imagine In simp,s
Language cast iron spherical box placed on
the bottom of stream, the upper part Of
this box cotains air; and at the lower part i:
( a pipe through which the water Of the stream
runs by means of u valve into the box, un
till the air is compressed sufficiently to close
the valve, when the water is forced through
: another pipe which connects with the box
. up through the exhaust pipe To the barns
I &c, this ia the simple plan which operate
| the ram; the waste water passes through an
y other valve, which closes when the frat open
e .ud opens when the other shuts.
B. The discharge pipe is usually about ha
Ia as large in diameter as the supply pipe, bu
with this proportion. a fall Of two or thre
D. feet in the stream, will, with fair supply c
lie water. elevate as much and at as great
?. height as the strength ola common halrInc
- lead pipe will beBr. The greater the heigh
! in proportion to the fall Of the stream tbs
less will be the quantity of water elevated
). AZ compared with the quantity flowing in th
3 stream. Our readers will see at once tina
a method or machine which forces the wate
to 1,,,ypp ITSELF and must be under ordinar
!, circumstances, vastly more economical thai
8 would be the outlay Of human labor. Their
r. is but very little outlay for repairs, sire
# there is no friction or rubbing Of the differ
ent parts as there is in an ordinary pumr
but it works for years through day or nigh
II as long as the brook continues to flow.
The laying of water pipe for few hur
+. bred feet, and ram, is less than would be tn
+, cost of digging well and setting pump
besides the saving OF labor, an item whicI
every farmer must not lose sight of.--.HasS
: PlOHghmaH.