The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1885-02-05
South River Items.
Reported for the v1Re1NrAS.

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the 18th inst. a large number of farmer.
and stock breeders of this and adjacent
counties, for besides the household goods
and farming implements (all of which are
lirst-class) that are advertised he has also
as fine q lot of short-horn cattle and Cots.
void sheep as the most fastidious stock
man could wish to see together. Your
correspondent saw a few days ago, young
Cotswolds that weighed largely over 2OC
pounds and are covered with coat of the
longest and finest wool. AS with the
sheep, SO with the Short-horns Mr.. M.
offers. There is not an individual that
does not claim to be out BRIGHTLY too) of
the very best families known. Such an or
portunity rarely occurs of securing fine
blooded stock and our wide awake farmers
long since learned that he who handled
the best bloods, also pockets the most
money. Already your paper has stirred up
an interest in the approaching sale and we
shall expect to see quite large gathering
on that occasion.
In selling off his stock Mr.. Myers does
so, in order that he may give his undivided
attention to the business of the Marvel
Wind Engine Company of which he is
agent. AS a stock breeder and farmer
Mr.. M. was doing and could have done a
great deal for the country, but as one able
to. furnish u stream of pure water where
no water flowed before he becomes u real
benefactor. While rowing in the inter-
ests of the VIRGINIAN sometime ago,
your correspondent had the pleasure of
being shown the wonders of this machine,
the wind engine. Marvellous is not
strong enough expression. The value of
pure water at your door, in your kitchen,
your garden, your dairy and your barnyard
goes beyond the power of computation
when you consider that for generations
preceding you and for the most of your
own life water had to be ''tOtedo up hill
200 feet to the house and that your stock
had to be driven twice q day one-quarter
mile or more to watering place.
The use of water is universal. We must
have it to cook with, to drink, to cleanse
our houses with, for purposes Of bodily
cleanliness, for our stock, &c., &C., yet
with the power of having it at hand and at
all times by the use of the machine for
which Mr.. Myers is agent there are many
farms in this garden of CREATION upon
which the supply is quite limited and hard
to get. That [ may he the means of di-
recting some one toward a supply of this
most indispensable article 1 note here
what | saw of an engine day or so since.
A residence was located upon hill So feet
above a very weak spring and 200 feet
distant from it. The Marvel Company
came here and established as perfect a
water supply system as you can find in any
city. Walling up the spring, they laid
suction pipe ABOUT 100 feet up the hill to
a dry pit in which is located force pump.
The pump is worked by means of a 10 foot
wind engine which stands Immediately
over it at a height of so feet. From the
pump the water is forced 200 feet further
up the hill to 1000 gallon reservoir, and
from that point goes out in all directions
by means of pipes.
The cook has a constant supply at her
elbow. In the midst ofithe garden stands |
a hydrant ready to pour gut life upon the |
vegetation. The dairy instead |
of being at the foot Of the hill and remote |
from the house is at the top of it and near
the kitchen door. On the opposite side of |
the house from the spring stands the barn !
being via the pipes not less than 700 or |
500 feet from the spring. and right under |
the shed between the stable doors is a
trough which although always full of good |
water, never Guns over and, strange as it !
may seem, the very act of emptying
it fills it again. A steer is enabled by |
drinking the trough empty to fill it again
by means of an automatic float that when
the water is lowered in the trough
touches valve, and the trough which
holds enough for 20 cattle Immediately
fills up again,
write this that | may show our people
what has actually been done, knowing that
when they are made aware how easily and
cheaply water may be had they will adopt
this wind engine system, Mr.. Myers will,
he tells ME, put up a Marvel wind engine
and require no pay until it does what is
claimed for it. ROVER.
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the town where the college is located de-
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residence. If a student intends to re-
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