The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-08-18

portion of the road bad. To. one
coming from Logan County, Ohio,
with its excellent pixies, the roads of
Virginia will seem one of the worst
things he will have to endure.
While the matter of good roads is
being agitated, there is very little
money appropriated for road im-
provements and a majority of the tax
payers, seem averse to being taxed
for that purpose, in fact they are
opposed to any change that requires
any great amount of eXertion, they
prefer to run along in the old paths,
and endure the old inconv nveniences
rather than make a great effort to
overcome them: e. &. the man |
bought my farm of owned 2ll acres |
di, ided into two nearly equal parts |
by road. He belonged to the better
class of small farmers, kept much
more stock than usual: running a
small dairy, and Ia very unusual
thing herel keeping a flock of.sheep.
Land is fenced here to keep stock in.
Il
sides of the road-yet there was but
one well on the entire farm, from
which, except in very wet weather,
all the stock had to be watered, and
when they were pastured across the
road from the well, they would have
to be brought distance of forty or
or fifty rods every time they were
watered. and this trouble has been
borne many years, when abundance
of water can be obtained anywhere
by going down twenty-five feet. The
water for the house was carried
from this same well a distance of
fifty or sixty yards.
Last fall we dug another well at
the house-went down twenty-five
feet and got abundance of good wa
ter, walled with terra-cotta pipe so
. as to exclude all surface water-put
in good iron force pump, and the
whole cost including labor was only
about thirty dollars. Water here is
very abundant, and very good, cool,
and soft as rain water, never coats
vessels in which it is heated in the
least. While there are good many
, springs in the rayines in the more
hilly parts of the country, yet we
have mostly to depend upon wells
getting water at from ten to forty
feet according to the elevation. Ii
is all very much alike. 1 have said il
-aa ,ura. that bowavar denands II
Iprecaution is used to exclude surfac,
water, it is pure, but when that i.
lacking, which is too often the case
it may at times be very far from it
lTne common method is to wall it will
brick laid without cement: this o
lcourse admits surface water. Som
are curbed with wood, which is mucl
worse. have heard that there ar,
families who carry water from 100 t
POO yards, rather than dig well. Ant
the ways that are in vogue for get
ting the water out of the well, yol
ought to see some of them-ruunini
all the way from the improved mod
ern wind pump to an old battere
bucket with piece of rope or pol
| with hook attached.
The climate here | think is YER
fine. l doubt if there is better on
4 anywhere in the United States
i and am of the opinion few as good
\ We are exempt from the excessiv
| cold of the north. the billiards O
II the northwest and west. and tn
Il enervating heat of the south. 1t
II said that cyclones or tornadoes, 5
II obstructive in some places, hav
Il never been known here. Our winte Ell
i are mild-the coolest morning las
winter, the mercury stood at IA de
i grees above zero. While we hav
Il some pretty warm days in summer
II there is generally pleasant breeze
and the nights are nearly alway
! pleasant. Sultry nights are very III
common. In the matter of wet an
n dry, or the amount and frequency G
E. rainfall, we have a very equab'
o. climate, seldom, If ever, going {
DR. either extreme. / am speaking no
a of the immediate section in whic
lie we live, for 1 well know that in tn
A. mountainous parts of the state, flood
lie are often very destructive.
5, Much of the land hereabouts need
n Undertaking and often tn
:" very best needing it badly. Very Iii
Id tie in this direction has ever bee
# done. The common method of drair
If ing here, is to plow the fields in nal
I'd row lands, always in the same dire,
II tion, and nearly always so as to leav
the burrows between the lands wher
l. they were before, making the fields
y succession of ridges and gutters-th
,r cutters generally down to hard-par
" There are no tile factories in thi
IL section, or anywhere near, and thos
III who would underdrain are prevente
n by the cost of tile. There are som
es dealers in Richmond who keep tile
in but they ask fully three times wha
IN tile sells for in Logan county, Ohio
ID think this would be first class Il
so cation for number of tile factoriet
1T We need the tile, and we have TIL
as best of clay and an abundance c
r fcheap fuel. Send down some of you
,v tile men.
We have good markets at Ricl
mond for everything we can produce
TT Grain of all kinds is always highe
d. than with you-hay and straw yer
70 much higher. while butter, egg
poultry, fruit and vegetables nearl
Go always bring a much higher pric