Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1891 — LIVE STOCK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LIVE STOCK.

Wafer Tor Farm animals. The water supply Is a matter of prime importance to tho stockman. Without an abundance of pure water of an agreeable temperature, farm animals cannot remain healthy, or make a highly profitable gain of flesh, or yield of milk or of wool. J. M. Stohl In the Practical Farmer, tolls how to arrange a well and windmill so that the animals'at all times may have fresh water of an agreeable temperature. Tho diagram shows how this highly desirable result is accomplished; o is the tank, which should hold eight to ten barrels; cis the well. The curb, the lowor part of tho tower supporting the wind-wheel, and tho pump, can be at once distinguished; b is what is known as tho reefing bucket —a bucket of two or three gallons capacity, having a small hole in the bot-

tom. It is suspended to the rod that passes through the curb, and throws the mill in or out of gear. When the tank is nearly full, water flows from it into the reefing bucket, through tho pipe shown in the cut leading from near the top of the tank to the reefing bucket When the reefing bucket is filled, its weight pulls the mill out of gear, and, of course, stops the pumping. A small pipe leads from the bottom of the tank into the well, as shown in the cut It is of such capacity that it will just about empty the tank until the water has drained out of the reefing bucket through the small hole in its bottom. As the reefing bucket becomes nearly empty, its welghtls not sufficient to keep the mill out of gear, and tho pumping again begins, and is kept up until tho tank Is filled. The water again flows from the tank to the reding bucket, and the pump Is stopped as before. Of course, the flow of water from the tank to the reefing bucket stops as soon as the water sinks a little In the tank. If animals come to drink, there is no flow in the reefing bucket, and of course the pump keeps at work until the animals have drank what thoy want, and the tank is filled. That tho drawing may be plain, all this apparatus is represented as above ground. In fact, the tank Is usually banked around with earth, and the pipes are below the surface. By this arrangement, the animals have cool water in summer, and water of a considerably higher temperature than the freezing point in winter. Stopcocks make It easy to stop the working of this apparatus whenever its stoppage is desirable.