Year: 1861

this may be improved to great practical
advantage for the benefit of many who arc
inyalids and who are fond of the tomato"


To Measure Corn an CriJ.-H. L. b.


in the Prairie Farmer, says this may be


done by multiplying the length, breadth
and height together in feet, multipiy this
product by four, strike off the right figure
and the result will be shelled bushels. I
find this reliable


Fo1g' HheeIed Carts--Tbe only diSaa-
vantages in using them are that i takes
more room to turn about, and the fore wheel
is sometimes in the way when unloading,
The advan. ages are that horse works
easier in them and viii draw more over
rough ground. The short body eau be put
on ore side for long rack for bay. The
economy is that one carriage answers sew
eral purposes, aud often saves the expense
Of wagon,


CHEAP CIsrERys s. FILTERS.


Instead Of incurring the great expense
OF cxcayatlng wells, stoning them aud sup
plying pumps for obtaining wafer for the
ordi AIRY purposes of q farm house or barn.
a much cheaper and more satisfactory ar
rangemcnt will he found in using my cheap
mode of constructing cisterns and ii!tering
the water. A cistern with the dimentions
which | shall describe viii bold ten thou
sand gallons and viii cost but eight dollars
and It's capacity may be doubled for less
than fifty per cent additional cost. One
Of the size above named viii be found suf-
fcient for farmers families generally, and
will insure soft water, VII ch is rare in
wells


Stake and line out plat near the bull
ding < 10 feet; excavate this one foot
IN depth; then set the lines in IS inches
on all Sides then excavate all within the
lines to the depth of four feet in the mid
die, making the middle level some nine in
ches in width sloping the banks on all the
sids and ends to the lines last placed,
which will make section of the pit either
way Y shaped, except that nine inches Of
the bottom will be level


In digging the banks use care not to
disturb the soil not thrown out. When
the digging IS completed plaster the bot
ten, the level part, with a good coat of
cement mortar and place board on the
bottom to stand on to do the balance of
the work cutting the board in two equal
parts before laying If on tie morfar This
done, plaster the entire surface on tbs
ground to the lines last named tHen re-
move one half Of the board and stand on
the balance, and build four inch brick
wall across the pit about in the middle,
laying the bricks, which should be soft,
the common salmon brick, in cement but
plastering neither side.


Lay the wall to the line, then remove
the balance of the board and put coat of
mortar where it lay. The cistern is now
complete save the covering; this may be
done by laying plank over the whole bed
ding, then on the surface of the first exca-
walton in mortar, or splitting logs from ihe
woods and laying them fat side down, and
closing the joints with mortar. The pump
pipe should be laid into one end and the
leader p pc from the house gutter laid into
the other before it is covered. This done,
return earth enough to cover the surface
at least one foot deeper in the middle than
the surrounding ground; level it off neat
ly and Sward It, and you have complete
iltering cistern for eight or ten years.