. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. THE STEADING OR FARMSTEAD, 113 J will always stand at the same hight in f. 2. \ shall now illustrate the other method of supplying troughs also by a figure. Let a, fio-. 22, be the supply trough immediately beside the pump ; let h be the trough in any other court to be supplied with water from a, and for that pui-pose it should be placed 3 inches below the level of a. Let a lead pipe d be fastened to the under side of the bottom of a, the orific
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. THE STEADING OR FARMSTEAD, 113 J will always stand at the same hight in f. 2. \ shall now illustrate the other method of supplying troughs also by a figure. Let a, fio-. 22, be the supply trough immediately beside the pump ; let h be the trough in any other court to be supplied with water from a, and for that pui-pose it should be placed 3 inches below the level of a. Let a lead pipe d be fastened to the under side of the bottom of a, the orifice of which, looking upward, to be protected by the hemispherical drainer c. Let the lead pipe cL be passed under ground as far as the trough h is situated from a, and emerge out of the ground by the side of and over the top of h at e. From this construc- Fig. WATER-TROUGHS. tion it is clear that, when a is filling with water from the pump, the mo- ment the water rises to the level of the end of the pipe at e, it will com- mence to flow into h, and will continue to do so until h is filled, if the pumping be continued. The water in a, below the level of the end of the pipe at e, may be used in a without affecting that in b, and the water in b may be wholly used without affecting that in a. 3. Water-troughs may be made of various materials; the form of a is that of one hewn out of a solid block of freestone, which makes the closest, most durable, and best trough; that of b is of flag stones, the sides of which are sunk into the edges of the bottom in grooves filled wth white lead, and there held to- gether with iron clamps h. This is a good enough kind of trough, but is apt to leak at the joints. Trough f is made of wood dove-tailed at the corners, and held together by clamps of iron i. These troughs may be made of any size and proportions. 4. In some steadings, the water-troughs are supplied from a large cistern, somewhat elevated above their level, and the cistern is filled
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