The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-02-13
New Method of ater-Heating.

Mr.. Editor Having noticed your
requests for readers to give their ex-
perience on the subject of 'Cdrming
lCater for stock, | will relate mine. Two
years ago last fall l put seventy-fve to
eighty feet of three-fourths inch iron
water-pipe into my kitchen chimney,
it being in twelve-feet lengths, running
up and down the chimney, connected
with returns, and three-fourths inch
pipe where it goes in and comes out,
beside the stove-pipe, the water being
conducted to it in common lead pipe.
The distance from where it goes into
the ground to the barn trough is about
four rods, and the pipe is enclosed in
wood tube, two inches square inside,
made of four-inch boards, and two by
two inch joist. 1t comes up to the trough,
and is banked up outside of that after
it is out of the ground; the trough is
also well protected from the cold by
being banked around it, NTH an air
space neat to 1t, which, according to my
experience, is necessary. 1t will be no
better than if it was not banked at all
unless there is space left next to the
trough. This arrangement warns the
water so it is quite warm to the
touch and steams away considerable on
a cold morning. The thermometer indi
Gates the temperature at about fifty de-
grees in the morning and sixty to eighty
degrees at night, depending somewhat
on the amount of fire kept in the house.
had the stove-pipe from the sitting
room turned around so as to 60
into the kitchen chimney to keep
it warmer nights. l did not have it
so last winter, and it froZe up in
the chimney several times, but did
no damage. AS soon as the fire was
built it went all right. We have a
faucet at the stove reservoir and at the
sink, where it is quite handy, as it is
warm enough to wash with, and some
times too warm. My cows will step up
to the trough as though they liked
to, and drink and look refreshed, in
stead of standing all fours in one track
and shivering. Horses seem to like it
warm too. The only trouble is they
don't like to drink cold water on the
road or away from home. Hay-seed or
oats which drop into the trough sprouts
and grows and green grass grows where
the trough runs over. The only trouble
attending it is it makes creosote run
down the chimney, which is somewhat
inclined; but | think there would be
no trouble with straight chimney
which went down below the floors. The
chimney wants to be large enough so
the pipes will not clog it up. | think
mine is eight by twelve inches inside.
The cost of the pipes, all put together
ready to put down into the chimney, was
seven or eight dollars. experimental
considerably before l fixed it as it
now is. l put lead pipe into the
chimney, and melted it out once, put
lead pipe into the stove reservoir, ETC.,
but as / now have it | think it the
cheapest, best and the least bother of
any way know of for warming water
| for stock
| would like to know what to do for
sore teats in cows. Some of my cows
have sore teats right along and persist
in being uneasy while being MIXED. If
you think this worth printing | will
give you some of my experience and
ideas on ensilage, mainly the expense
of harvesting, cutting, filling silo, how
| do it at small expense, etc.
PELEG SDIoNDs.
VIII some reader give Mr.. Simonds
aid in regard to the treatment of sore
teats? We shall be glad to hear about
| ,i,a ano;lana EnUpoD