Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-02-18
THE FARM AND HOME.
CONTAMINATION or
COUNTRY WELLS.
Ehat Docs Your Drinking water Goa
tains sweet aud sour Milk for
Pigs Broad fires--farm
Notes Home Hats.
contain nation o. Wells.

I
in Europe 10 demonstrate from what
distance Impurities can be CARVED by
pereolation through the soil from u
distant noin; upon its surface taa well
from which u family's supply Of water
is obtained. 4 sat 81 lithinm which
can readily be detected ia water was
sown upon plot ~ ground $50 feet
from u well--a matter ~ e rods, The
water from the well was daily exam
incd, and on tie lstA day the unmis-
taxable presence ~ lithium was APP
parent in the water. Now - rods Is u
long distance from a well as one
lcounts distances about his house, and
yet in less thau three weeks sub
stance from the surface a. the ground
had been washed into the soil aud had
been carried along the ,loping atural
drain pipes II one may So speak ~
them, that exist ia the soil, and HAD
thus found Us way into the water "
the we'll
There is an impression prevalent ia
some quarters that even though in,
purities may exit upon the surface "
the earth about ones prem SEES that
all drainage from them s0uks directly
down into the soil and is therefore
rendered harmless The experiment
Just mentioned shows how utterly nm.
tenable is this idea says tile Country
Gentleman. and ought - 80 those
into earnest thought whose walls
springs OF other sources ~ water sun.
Ply are within possible erea %
pollution 10 understand how sisa
pollution as has been tnrut'o urd 4
possible oNlrdg. ~ the graloy
teal structure ~ soils from the surface,
down to great depths = 81 Importance.
Tho soil Of the earth ii Is ~ ~ n.
mcmhcred. has been formc ~ the
disintegratiun 81 rock formations
which most commonly existed III lbr
form % LAYERS laii down ciiArF Ia 4
horizontal % ara incline i iSEts,n Il
= also y % remembered ina. thc a.
ers differed greatly 10 cbaroe.er. watch
causes the layers ~ spa formed
from thrm - differ also greatly Ia
ehAraetrr. 4 layer ~ san5tststr NAV
nave "reriain a inycr 81 ht.'l. " that
as q result ~ dis,ntrgrat.1n ~ ID, I
laEer 20 sandy >yiE ,intit.rtatr
rs sub>oa IN rla. MANY n
these layers arr Ji.bs 4uG p4..gu,
snd allow water aud ,aid matter
~ solution 81 Pms, rcnlilg JoNn
through them When however, ,.t.
water laden perhaps wltA lanar.tac,
reaches Q layer NOR 81 IT., TIA. i.-y..,f,.
n Is either hrti the-r it III. ttn.,,y.
vipus layer forums som.t TIA NJ x t,,.fr
"r Nprrdl, 1ut ID aTI direction. HI Ill.
layer n horizontal 81 tot, a,5n- III
surface 10 one direction IL iac im.rr
ytonA layer j u all inclined II u +.
quite sure n ~ IA lrvrl Formation,
are mparltivfly rare. OnIv tny.stt
cation by cuttiuR deeply through IL.
soil VIII show the exact n,tttr,.,,y III.
formations underlying thu REGION
about ones house hat there ara ,arn,
suriac" indication, that give consider
able light on the condition ~ tbiu.,5
h.'"" The top ~ thr ground Slopfns.
Rtonni very commonly indicates +,
bending down .. the LAYER, ~ s.rY.,
oi which the soil 4 composed y,h..,
ne drainage from the stable ro,tId ~,
W possible means get 10 the waIi
whllc any drainage from the hop.c
would naturally lie drawn IN
towards the barn III M ~.
where bindings are on level grnnnd
mere are few II any, surincc h. |
llcAtiOns ~ what may pr the dancer.
Gus condition ~ thr soil that Il tb9,,,
peiow the surface Thcrr aiI Nj. I
IrainaRe that Soaks into tho yronnd /
ioont the barn and house ,yi II pntur,,.
y settle ~ the direction nf tho w,,l
provided one II the strata bc .af,n.
Nhat lmperyious 10 water The Ia.
'er 81 such situation mpst ~ IN
parent especially in tho ligat ~ III
esults obtained in tho lithtt,tp !, ,t,..,
henir depression between twn NH.
ATOMS ~ ground indicates a b,.it,
IKE formation Of the strata. which ~
= ''nprrvious stratum Is pres m, mac
AIRY me drainage Of the basin inio
ny Wen that may be situa led intt
consideration Of all these thinr.
now lhai unless intelligent care Il N.
rPised either IN the location ~ v,1I.
: ~ inc removal o. any possible sourca
! contamination, the water sunnr,
iaS readily become y source 81 dis.
hsf' ana So constitute nerno,,,.,
'enaee to the health ~ the family