The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-06-08
THE FARM WATER SUPPLY.
Nothing is More Essential to.
Health and Comfort Than Plen-
@ty OF Pure Water, and the Cost
OF Having 1t is Not Grea.
Mrs F. l. Stevens, in Progressive
Farmer.

ny SO1@
handling the problem of the wat
ser supply for the home. After
many years of toiling to and fro
from a well several hundred feet
distant from the house, she de.
Gded that the well was a per.
manent Institution, and since the
M0use was not, the only thing to
do was to move the house to the
wel After one or two vigorous
aunversAtions with the man of
affairs he finally agreed that il
Ehe herself would superintend the
Job, he would leave it to her. Not
tidaunted, she went to the. nearby
tfUwn, employed the workmen who
uGam armed with screws, puIleys
, and all necessary equipment and
accomplished the feat. Now the
rWM Is located on the back porch
=znd the problem of the water sup
ply is partially solved.
Hard Ways of Getting Water
One of my ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
experiences of last summer was
n 25O-mile drive through a pros
pGEOUs section of one of our
SogEhern States. The location of
the well or spring which supplied
ahe farmhouse with water, was
Une Of my chief interests in this
drive. Some times the well was
Intthe front yard; not infrequent-
1y 1t was off several hundred feet
IN a plowed field. Occasionally I
NOTED that it was conveniently To-
Gated with respect to the barn to
insure an adequate and handy
supply for the farm animals. And
the spring, it was usually just
down the hill!
: What a tale of foot-weariness,
backache and broken health that
HEBBbe beaten path up from the
zpring proclaimed! Often | felt
fhatif the person who located the
well had set about deliberately to
find the most inconveient spot he
8 could not have succeeded better.
Notwithstanding all this, / saw
much that was good, A few of
kheffarm homes had a good sup
ply of water piped into the house
Trom a nearby spring, located
above the house. Others had sol
wed the problem by means of a
force pump. One ingenious man
with "a force pump and a barrel
located in a tree, supplied his
house with water and there in the
county 25 miles from any town
cot SIZE, was IN np-to-date house
with an the comforts of a city
MOme. The amount of money ex-
Wended in this instance was ridi-
aeGlOuSly small. In speaking of
the success of the undertaking,
EhE man remarked that he was
the least prosperous Of three
brothers and yet these brothers
Arad not seen fit to supply their
homes with this convenience.
The Need Of More Water in the
Home.
Water is a poor master; but
nj is a good servant when you
have control over it." The health
and comfort Of the family depend
more certainly upon an abundant
supply of pure, wholesome water
than any other commodity. Ba-
bies are being dosed on soothing
.syrups, laxatives, and other ''re1
egulators" when without doubt
all they need is water; clean, pure,
systematically given. Men and
women are today suffering from.
kidney, liver and other organic
disorders and are dosing their
bodies upon patent drugs when
I'm all probability the body is
strav1ng for water.
It is perfect folly to advise a
housewife to use water more free
ly In the diet and bout the house
hold work when every drop of
the precious fluid must be drawn.
pail by pail, out of a 50-foot well
or carried up a hill.
Notwithstanding the fact that
some of u good men folks arc
sceptics about these "new-fangl
ed sanitary notions" the provi-
sion of a bountiful supply of pure
water to the farmhouse is the first
step toward progress. Not only
should there be an adequate sup
ply of water, but it must be pure
Beautiful, clear, sparkling ter
does not always represent purity.
Water loaded with typhoid fever
germs may be most enticing as
to appearance and quality. In
order to insure a safe supply to
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