Boone County Recorder . •Wata* for Stock. Baring noticed several article* on thesubject of pure water for stock, andknowing lta importance, aad also thatthere are many localities where it isimpossible to bring the water fromsprings or depend on tha amall supplyfrom wells, I would recommend a well-constructed cistern or a number ot ci»terns connected together. Let ua lookto tha roofs of available buildings at thafirst source of supplying water. Takea roof say of 43x53 feet including pro-jections, and we have 3,164 square feetof surface. Allowing the annual rain-fall to be S8K inches, a building
Boone County Recorder . •Wata* for Stock. Baring noticed several article* on thesubject of pure water for stock, andknowing lta importance, aad also thatthere are many localities where it isimpossible to bring the water fromsprings or depend on tha amall supplyfrom wells, I would recommend a well-constructed cistern or a number ot ci»terns connected together. Let ua lookto tha roofs of available buildings at thafirst source of supplying water. Takea roof say of 43x53 feet including pro-jections, and we have 3,164 square feetof surface. Allowing the annual rain-fall to be S8K inches, a building of thedimensions given wonld catch, in ayear, 03,411 gallons, or LOSS barrels,which had much better >r» utilised inthis way than to he allowed to dripinto manure piles, thus washing theirgoodness away. A cistern large enoughto hold 1,443 barrels wonld have to heSO feet inj diameter and S3 feet deep,but as the rain does not all come atonce, and it is not all used at once, thedimensions need not be quite so BLAINES LATE sT DODGE. The Jingo Statesman Perpetrates One olHis Old-Time Blaine attempts to spike the gunhe himself loaded when he wrote hisfamous letter to Senator Fry about theMcKinley bill. He now says that hiscondemnation of it was written beforethe reciprocity clause was put in, andthat that removed all his it is to be said that the reciproc-ity clause of the bill is notoriously notwhat Mr. Blaine wanted it to be andtried to make it He wanted the dutyon sugar left on, and one on hides puton, so that he could actually have someconcessions to offer instead of, as now,only a threat to make. He also addsthat the reciprocity provision is prov-ing very useful, especially . in farmproducts, and more particularly In thecase of the two articles mentioned inthe paragraph quoted, pork and this he differs from the last cam-paign document put forth by the bureauof statistics, in which it is admittedthat it is not to be expected that
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