The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-22
SAFE WAFER SUPPLY.
Tho Best Cistern Filter aud Well-WalI for
Farm Purposes.

rh. Rest Cistern Filter aud Well-WaH for
Farm Purposes.
Properly made, the brick partition
wall is, Ibelieve, the best possible cis-
tern filter. 1t should be thoroughly CO.
mented on both sides for a foot or more at
the bottom where the sediment will col
lect in the side of the cistern to which
the water is admitted, and above that
use the soft brick for the water to filter
through Such filter is absolutely
perfect. | would make the cistern
large, so that a supply can be secured
in winter and early spring when the
rains are copious and cold and | would
have a manhole to each side of it, |
recently learned a new method of
walling wells, which is cheap, requires
no ska, and insures the water against
contamination from surface water.
Instead of using stone or brick, glazed
sewer-pipe is put in with joints ce-
mented. The joints can be made absO-
lutely watertight, and with a well from
fifteen to twenty-five feet deep, as is
usually the case, if the clay be tamped
around the tile, as it should be, it
would seem impossible for any leach
ing from the surface to reach the bot
toms, For economy, eight-inch tile is
GENERALLY used, and when these small
Me are put in it is well to turn a small
arch with brickbats to make a reser-
voir for water for the tile to rest on.
When the well is to be used only
for house purposes il is better to
dip the water and draw it with a wind
lass than to pump it. Use a bucket
of six inches in diameter, made of
heavy tin, with a conical bottom, and
arrange it with piece Of strong wire
attached to the valve and coming to
the top of the bucket so that you can
open the valve and allow she water TO
run into pail set under it, and there
will be no lifting or pouring OF the
water from the well bucket.
In walling well with tile or other
material great pains should be taken
to lamp thoroughly, especially as you
near the top. The best clay should be
reserved to use at and near the surface,
and it should be raised foot or two
above the level and so graded that the
water will flow away at once from the
well. Another cheap and very salts
factory plan with wells, especially
| those for stock, in localities where the
/ stone is near the surface, is not to wall
at all, but arch with brick, starting the
arch on the ledge. | have three wells
| finished in this way, two of them stock
| wells ten feet in diameter. In this, as
| in many other localities, we strike d
| regular ledge of limestone four to six
/ feet from the surface, and here we cut
Il shoulder and start the arch If the
ledge is so far from the surface as tC
/ bring the top of the arch below ground
a neck of hard brick can be built up tC
| to the surface, and the arch should al.
ways be topped out with Il large sewer
lpipe extending a foot or eighteen
ehes above ground; fit the pipe to the
! arch with cement so tight that not ever
a drop of water can enter and then fl
a good cover of two-inch boards to The
top of the sewer pipe, and you will Sc
cure your cistern from all sources
There are wells by the thousand in th'
country with old rickety wooden curbs
rotten at the foundation, and when thu
wells are cleaned there l. usually founc
in the foot of sediment the skeletons o
rats, dead toads and other things suf
ficient to turn the stomach of hand
saw. l appoint each reader of this
committee of one to make a careful eX
animation of the well curb and its con
nection with the wall. - Waldo +
Broom, IN n. Y. TribURe.