The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-17
A HOME WATER SUPPLY.
Two Mississippi Systems That Give
Perfect SatisfactiOn-The Cheap
Serviceable Hydraulic Ram-Get-
ting Rid or the Hard Work of
Housekeeping.


household necessity. In fact more
water is used in every household
than any other one thing; and, too
often, the producing of the water is
| the hardest of all household tasks.
If the well or other source of water
supply is only a few feet from the
kitchen door, the housewife tramps
| many, many weary miles as she goes
back and forth, back and forth, car
rying the water necessary for drink
ing, cooking, cleaning, scrubbing,
washing, bathing, and so forth. If,
| as is often the case, the we'll or spring
| is some distance away, and it is nee
essary to carry the water up more or
| less of an incline, with steps to the
kitchen door, the work is increased,
and the task is one which no woman
| or child should be called on to per-
form. The hard work of producing
| the family water supply, is, in some
| sections Of the country, responsible
! tired. old-looking children, than any
| one other thing.
The farm home, more than any
other, should have a system Of water
works, and that it has not is more
| often the carelessness or the mis-
taken notion that it is too expensive,
ho
One Madison County, Miss, man
| installed water-works by using An ar
tifical pond or lake. about $50 yards
! from the house for the supply, pump
| ing the water into a storage tank by
means of wind mill pump. Part of
the back porch was inclosed, making
room about by feet, opening off
OF kitchen and back hall, in which
was placed bath tub stationary basin
! and toilet seat. About SO feet from
the house was Broom building, and
water was piped into one of these
for a laundry, as we'll as into the
Kitchen and bath room, and into the
barn for the stock, and the side yard
garden. This water was used for
every purpose but cooking and drink
ing. For the latter a cistern was
dug close to the kitchen gallery, with
pump and platform level with the
floor. The cost of this water plant
was less than $500.
Another farmer had a deep we'll
bored and pumps the water with
gasoline engine into a storage tank
and from thence to kitchen. upstairs
| bath room, dairy house, stables, pas
ture, poultry yard, lawn and veget-
| able garden. This cost in the neigh
borhood Of $1,000, including deep
| we'll and engine, but it insures the
| ease and satisfaction of an abundance
| Of water where the housewife has
| only to turn a faucet to have hot or
cold water upstairs or down. and also
| eliminates the work of watering stock
as a turn of the faucet is all that is
necessary Using it to irrigate the
garden, he has always an abund-
ance of vegetables, whether it rains
or not, for which there is a market
| at good prices. The engine is util-
lied for saving wood, chopping feed,
churning Chey run a small dairy
since they have plenty of water, thus
adding to the incOme), and in other
labor saving ways, so the expense is
not all chargeable to the water sup
ply.
In both cases cited all pipes and
fixtures Of all kinds were bought
from a mail order house at less than
half the prices asked by dealers in
the neighboring city. Neither was it
necessary to employ a high-priced
plumber to install them, as the own
er and the neighborhood carpenter
had "gumption" and did the work
| themselves.
| We lived one year in the hills Of
Georgia where the chief water supply
was from springs One man installed
hydraulic ram ct little expense, and
forced water into the house, where
| before, all had been carried, pail
full by pail full, up a long. steep hill.
There are thousands and thousands
of country homes where the expense
of a first-class water system may be
met and thousands of other homes
where water may at least be had in
the kitchen, and the only reason they
do not have 1t is that have taken
for granted that only city people
could afford such luxuries, and by
not investigating, have gone on deny
ing themselves the comfort Of an
abundance Of water at the turn Of a
; Acknowledgements Farmer"