The Arizona sentinel., 1888-06-30
WATER FOR STOCK.
Some of che AdvaAtages of the So-OalIed
 Pool System.

Some ot che AdvaHtases of the So-Oaued
 Pool System.
 Ny experience is that wells are not necessity to those of us who are st situated that we can not get them without excessive digging. In fact I have not a well on my farm. and do lot know that I want one. I am an advocate of the pool system of obs taining and treasuring the needed supply of water but not in the way 1t used to be done, and is now done too Frequently.
 The location should be such tha. you can get the water where you want it. and cf course that is in tho stahlH or at least in the barn-yard. This can not always be done. but the farmer who makes pond will, of course, exercise judgment in the mat ter. and get the water as nearly where he wants it as possible, A To: cation should be seleeted, when possi- ble. having descent of four or five feet in the width of the eontsmplated pond, and ono can be made with much less labor on a side hill than on the level ground After having selected the location. the next point is to make one that will hold water First remove all the sur= face soil or the part sometimes called "humus." Use it neither iii the dike nor under if. The foundation fer the dike should be solid clay. If there arc any decayed roots leading Outward from the contemplated pond, cut trench in such manner that it will sever them, and fill firmly with clay. B. fore building the dam trench should be dug from the pool outward. in the direction in which it is desired te take lh. wafer for use.
 The outer end should be eighteen or twenty inches deep In this trench a pipe should be laid. and the trench firmly filed with Clay. The size of the pipe should be governed by the humber of stock to be watered from it. and the distance the water is to be carried. If there is to be only one trough an inch pipe is large enough tor eighteen or twenty hea of cattle, provided the wafer is not carried more than twenty or twenty-five feet. The dike should be about eighteen feet wide at the bottom. if 1t is to be four or five feot high and should be tramped as soIidly as possible wh.le b llding, by letting the team pass over as much of it as possible. If only good clay has been used the pond will hold water nearly or quite as well as cis- tenn
 Having completed this work. set a piece of pamp-iog or something simi- lar. at the end of the pipe inside of the pool, fitting the pipe firmly into the hole made for the purpose. The top of the post should extend six or eight inches above the bottom of the pond and should have a strainer over it which will admit water as rapidly as Inc pipe will carry 1t away. There should also be hole in the post near Inc Do tom of the pond, which should b plug sed up. When it is desired to drain the pond this plug may be re- remcTed. The next thing is to pro- vide means for filling the pond with water, and in order 10 have as nearly pure water as possible, there are three things necossarys The fist is 10 get pure water into the pond; second. to keep impure water out, and third, to keep the wa CT pure after you get it there.
 To secure the first. the pond should. if possible, be filled b. tile drain which, when the Location will permit will receive the water from the roofs of one or more buildings. If the drain receives the water from only an acre or two of land there will be an abundance. Some ponds only receive the water that naturally accumulates therein from the rains and the snOw Of course pond filled in this way should be larger than when other means are provided. Exclude all sur- face water unless it comes from meadow or pasture land, and then it must not have too much descent or too great a volume of water, or else there will be more or less filth carried into the pond. In order to keep the water pure it is necessary to put a good strong fence around it, which will exclude stock of all kinds, in. cluding hogs, geese and ducks. - Cor Ohio FGrHer