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Show CLEAN WATER IS NECESSARY Artificial Pond Erected by Illinois Farmer Proves Quite Adequate for All Needs of Farm. Good clean water is an essential necessary for the comfort and well-being well-being of the dairy herd. Spring or well water, if good, is possibly the best, but when there is not a sufficient supply a good deep pond does not come amiss. We have an artificial pond which supplies our needs in this direction, which is ordinarily from twelve to fourteen feet deep, cool and clean. This pond was made by building a-dam a-dam across a hollow in the pasture 45 feet wide at the bottom and wide enough at the top so a team could be driven across, says an Illinois writer in Farmers' Review. A wall on the inside in-side of the dam was constructed of two-inch white oak boards to keep the wash from breaking the dam. The outlet is not over the dam, but on the side. To accomplish this task three teams and four or five men were kept busy for three weeks. After the dam had settled it was built up to the necessary neces-sary height twice at different intervals. inter-vals. Here we row with a skiff at leisure, and have a good old-fashioned swim when we so desire. In the winter we have a place to skate, and a most excellent place to get an abundance of ice for the icehouse. Not only this, but the neighborhood at threshing time has the privilege of securing all the water they wish to use. When the wells go dry there is plenty there to fill the demand. It took a lot of hard labor and backache, but it has given us 12 years or more of service. |