The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-11-28
FARM COAVEN|tNCtS
NECESSARY TO KEEP
YOUNG PEOPLE THERE
SELECT WELL DRAINED BUILD
ING PLOT FOR BENEFIT
OF HEALTH.
CONVENIENT WATER SUPPLY
Extra Cost Of the Household and
Farm Helps 10 More Than Recon-
pensed by the Multiplied Advan-
tages Enjoyed.
(By Capt. T. F, Peck, Commissioner
Of Agriculture


This week let us talk about farm
conveniences and the important part
they play in our comfort, happiness
and success. To cover the entire
range and discuss the question on the
broad line it merits would require a
volume, but we will confine ourselves
to the home and its arrangements for
water and light.
The country home, of course, has
air and light, unless these are cut off
by superabundance of shade trees
too close to the house. Too many
and improperly placed trees are worse
than none, for the home should have
plenty of air and sunlight. 1t is often
placed too near the country road,
which robs it of the comfort of priva-
cy, and exposes it to the detrimental
influences of dust and dirt.
Of course we cannot all select new
locations and build new homes. In
many cases the location is all right
| if it Is improved as it can be, if it is
provided with an abundance of good
water convenient for use. Nothing
has been given less attention in the
country home toward making it con-
venient than the water supply and
very few things add more to the COM
fort of the family and the convenience
Of the housewife than an abundance
| of water conveniently arranged. l
could picture you homes where the
water supply today is spring some
distance away from the house, or to
be drawn from deep well with
windlass. l could also point out to
you how you got your stock of mos
quitoes, from barrels Of water caught
from the roof for washing because it
was soft and the well water was hard
to wash in, and the barrels of water
developed your mosquitoes. You can
think of dozens of such conditions.
You will find them in every communi-
| ty.
You cannot afford to live and work
under such disadvantages when you
can provide the conveniences at less
cost than the city man. He must
have them if he lives in the city as
either owner or tenant, and he pays
! for them in rents of special taxes.
If you have not the spring suitable
flor putting in the hydraulic ram, you
could provide your water supply from
your we'll with a windmill or gas
oine engine, connected with your
pump. So much labor can be saved
| by using gasoline engines that they
are almost indispensable on any farm.
They can cut your wood, she'll and
grind your corn, run the separator
and churn your milk, cut your ensi-
| lage and stover. When it has done
its days work and night comes on it
! can fill your reservoir and with an in
expensive dynamo it can generate
light for your home and barns, giving
you all TIE real conveniences that the
city has claimed over the country,
and you can provide them with no
more actual cost than if you had them
| in the city.
The trouble with us as farmers in
the past has been habit of getting
along with whatever was least trouble
| to provide in our homes and their
equipment When we make up our
minds we want to provide more con-
yeniences for our homes we will find
time and means to do it, and the add
ed comfort and happiness we get will
inspire us to better utilize our time
and opportunities until we satisfac-
torily solve the question Of home con-
venience in the country