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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1933-08-11, Page 6qle,rMateatia0", ed .4" 41' eiteereek et ERS HAD INGENIR. METHODS .OF RING AN ANIPLE--:11PPLY OF WATER • First Wells Dug in Western Ontario were Merely Holes in the Ground. By `aBluralitea in' Louden Free Press. • it fbeealme se .popular that in time there was hardly a farm in Oid On- tario without a stone well on it. These wells wee ofterraquite deep, although thirty feet seems to have been the favorite depth for consta-uet- ing them. They were generelly about three feet in- diameter, but there were some cases where the diameter wasmerely enough to let. the pump logs .be lowered. These latter, ones were not very satisfactory, as they were very difficult to clean out, .and it is only occasionally that we see them. Stone wells were built of stone pierced off the farms on which they were dug. As the stones used were sort of wedge-shaped 'they could not get out of their correct position, when properly layed, and thus there was never any danger of the well raving in. These fine old wells are. so permanent that almost all of them are still in use and will be continued. to be used for generations to come. About the time that, stone wells be- came common, wooden pumpand wooden •windm'ills were introduced. The pumps worked on the same prin- cipal as the metal ones of he pres- ent time, and wooden pump -logs took the place • of metal piping. Both petrels and pump logs were made of pine or cedar, as these wood e were the most suitable for their manufac- ture. The loge were made in lengths varying from five to 20 feet and were usually eight inches in diameter with a four -inch hdle bored down through the centre of them. They were made so that the top of one log would sit into the bottbm of the one above it. The wooden pumps and pump logs were made in small factories in many of the towns of. Ontario and, one of the best known pioneer pump manu- facturers in the province was the late Charles Tilden, of Mt. Brydges. We often hear of wooden pumps that Worked satisfactoril); „for 30 or 40 yeare,arid in fact there are some that are still in use. The supply of water on the farms of Western Ontario has always been more or less of a problent, and it has been .contended with in many differ- ent ways. In the early pioneer days, when the settlers first came to the wilderness ea Ontario, they usually located near a stream, of water ana thus assured themselves of e steady water supply. As the country became more settled .there were hundreds of fatims that were not near a stream or had no natural water supply. This necessitated the digging of wells. The first wells dug by the pioneers were merely holes in the ground of various depths and sizes and were covered over with logs to keep the farm animals from falling in. When water was required it was dipped ep with a homemade wooden bucket, which was raised and lowered 'by means of a long, slender pole, with a hook on the end of- it. The only watering troughs knowp at this time were made by hollowing dut large basswood logs. This was rather a .hard task, but when completed the troughs were eatiefactory., The wells of the firstsettlers gave constan„ tvouble, as the sides often caved in, owing to lack of support, and this led to the idea of curbing them. The first well curbing was made by hand, and was generally df oak or "alack ash.' Later when sawmills became coneepoie itwas sawed. at the mills. The. curbing was generally two by our inches or larger in size and was as long, as' the well was deep. • The well when lined with this, prevented any earth from, loosening and falling in. The. curbing e as held in position by iron hoops, which encircled the well inside of the curbing, and held it firmly against the clay. In same of the earliest curbed wells, wooden sup- ports were used to hold the curbing, but the iron hoop soon came to be generally used. . As pumps were as yet unknown, the 'old oaken bucket" was the Means by which water was raised from the well. If he buck -et was large it was generally attached to a small windless and was thus 'raised or low- ered by turning a crank. 'The "well -vette" was generally used where the . well was shallow. This was a very long pole, which was balanced over and attached to an upright. The line holding the bucket was fastened to one end of the pole " 'Wooden Windmills. The wooden windmills were very, conn at one time and, like the pumps, they gave many' years of. faithful service. They were very qtiaint'nooking and added greatly to the charm of the countryside. The towers, .wheels and vanes were solidly constructed of the choicest pine and only the gear was of metal. The towers were gen- erally 20 or 30 feet in height with the wheels and vanes corresponding in size. The gear was very simple in construction and it. necessitated the constant climbing of the tower for oiling purposes. These mills were manufactured in both Ontario and ana by raising and lowering the other I the United States and one of the end, water could be dipped from thebest known of them was the "IXelr well:" mill, made in London, Ont., by he Curbing Rotted. J. Taylor ,Company. We occasionally • see these old mill's when touring As time went on, the wood curb- about the rural districts, but very ing in many wells became rotten, al- few of them are in use. The firms though there were cases where it which built the wooden pumps and lasted for many years. 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Since taking Sargon Pills along 'with Saaa- gen. my bowels are, regular as clook work. never have tete ,olighteet sign of stomach trouble. I'm send- ing Sargon te, two friends of mina In Bounratia." C. ABERHART These tanks were, of various sizes and had iron bands around them for support. At this period wells were generally covered with oak planks and had a 'four-sided enclosure of fence rails . around them.. In recent years, hundreds of brick and cement wells and cisterna have been built on Ontario farms as they are more easily constructed 'than stone ones. 'In the building of many of the first .brick wells., the bricks were layed on their edge and no mei-- tar was used between them. This did not prove satisfactory and nowadays they are leered flat, with plenty of mortar between thein. The mortar is mixed very strong and cement is us- ed .in its manufacture. Cement tops for wells are \videly used at the present time. These taps are six or eight inches in thiekness and have iron rods in them for sup- port and to prevent them from cracking. Farmers who have springs of water on their farms are indeed lucky, as a good spring is an unfailing source of supply in a dry season, whereas welts generally go dry if the drought is prolonged. Some springs have pumps attached to them and others merely an iron pipe which runs the wean into a trough. Of all the deyiees in use for the handling of water- in the country to- day, there is none ‘rnore interesting than the hydraulic rain. There are a number of these hydraulic rams in - Western Ontario and they are in- stalled where there are largeasprings with sufficient water pressure to -run them. A hydraulic ram is a sort of force pump which is operated by the force of the water coming from the spring. The water is forced from the spring into the pump through a large metal pipe and a smaller pipe leads frofn the pump to the ."farm beildings. The surplus water flaa's away through a ditch: A hydratilic ram will pump water for a Tong distance and in sufficient quantity to supply the needs of any farmer dr stockman. One of the first hydraulic rains to be used in Middlesex County was in- stalled by Wahine Legg, a pioneer of West Missouri, on his farm.; on the second' conceseion of that toavn- ship. It has worked steadily for ov- er fifty years and is still in fine con- dition. As earlyaas 1892 the manufacture of steel windmills was attempted. in Ontario and now they are everywhere in use. Steel Windmills., ;.4 • 41,0 nal:( .4"11 if ST 111 1933. riiorr‘, y A S. vilhv VA WAGES (Condensed &our The Forum, in 1:towbar's Digest). In a day of bargains the following is, � think., the most extraordinary bargain alavertisernent I have' ever eareounteeed. It is taken from, the help -wanted columink of The New York Titres; Wanted, stenographer -bookkeeper: This position requires capability, ex- perience and industry, easily worth $30 a weekand more. Now offering $12-$16 a -week. No beginners, 'netiare appeal to give an era- plcate a $3u job at the enticing wag- es of $15 a week -depicts an inneeoat yet meaningful perception of the rresent state of the worker more elo- , tient than a page of wage statistics. and it fixes attention upon a phase of our present situation ' which, has been a little .bi' oVerlooked — e plight a the employed. There is plenty of food for meditation in the feet that countless men and woen.in who are working at full-time jobs are not getting as much as some of the unemployed persons on pualic relief rolls, The simple yet alarming truth is that our whole system of wages is oninebling. Our standard of liviag, built up so laboriously, at the cost of so many .painful labor wars, is failing to pieces in our hands. It ia'against this evil that the Nee York legislature has aimed a Wow an the two ininirnum wage laws which under the leadership of Governor Lehman, it has just passed. Presi- dent Roosevelt has put the weight of his office and his great pre•stige be- hind an'extension of the law to other states. For after all, it will do lit- tle good. to check the disease in one area when .it can flora so easily over the liouridaries and into' adjacent ara eas. „Indeed, unless other states col- laborate in the attack, the effect of action in any one sate will be to penalize it by imposing Upon its man- ufacturers and. employers restraints from which their competitors will be free. I do not assert that the wages of all workers have been cut to the point of starvation. Great numbers of 'employers have struggled valiant- ly to keep their payrolls.up. But such efforts to maintain wages apply al- most exclusively to employees who have been ip continuous erruploym•ent; and the story of the wages offered to new employees, and their slow but deadly effect upon the wages of their The first steel windmills were anti improvement on the old wooden ones but they were only single -geared and had to be oiled by 'hand. They have been steadily improved', however, and now they are self -oiling and are double -geared, whichadds greatly to their strength and durability. • In recent years the drilled well has become common in' Ontario and these wells are generally found on farms where great quantities of water are used aad where there is no natural water aupply. They are drilled by a large power drill run by a steam engine and are often dug to a depth of several hura dred feet before a permanent source of water is reached. In some cases the drill has to go through many feet of rock. These wells have a very serail diameter, being merely large enough to hold a metal; casing though which the water pipes are lowered. A large windmill or gaso- line engine is used in pumping the water from them. 'The pump is worked by a pump - jack when a gasoline engine is used, the pump -jack being operated by a belt from the engine. On most of the large dairy or stock farms in Ontario water bowl systema have been installed. This. means that there is a water. bowl be- fore every animal in the barn and as the supply ,of water is 'regulated ,by a float, they can drink at anetitne. The water in the bowls is supplied by a large wooden or metal- storage tank on, the floor of the barn above, al- though so-metimes when the tank is metal it is suspended from the stable ceiling. The water is pumped by means. of a wind:Tall or gasoline en- gine from the 'well to the storage tank. In the summer tithe the cattle are watered outside in a tank ad- joining the windmill; an automatic device shutting the mill off when the tank is full. Recently pneumatic water pressure systems have become generally used, especially in districts where there is hydro. By means of one of these sys- tems, one of the greatest conveni- ences of the city can be had, namely, water on tap throughout the home. They will work autolmetically when an electric motor is used. These eys- terns are often installed in barns as Well, and can also be run by a gaso- line engine. AS time goes on, probably even greater haprovements will be made in the water devices and systems in use on the farms of rural Ontario. I have endeavored to show 'how these devices have kept pace with the times as our province emerged from the pioneer days and became the gar- den spot a Canada. In every detach/ from the time of the earliest settlers until the prestent, we notice improve- ments an every kind of farm equip- ment, machinery, buildings, conveni- ences, etc., end likewise in each de- cade we, notice improvements for supplying the ever greater need of watef. Canada owes much to the mien who Perfected these impretements as the , alee' avett hy, for they played a oat pat b snaking this ceentry the fine land that it is, to live in: expenses and takes his ,profftra. You may make your awn guess at how =eh is passed on teathe weary wo- man who does the sev9ing, for a flew - invent of that 22 cents. This is the story of sweated labor, The ,sweatshop operators cut in un- der employers who 'try to maintain decent standards, and while they are starving their own, help, throw the workers of their rivals into complete unemployment. 'le is very important to understand that such conditions are not peculiar to any one state. The poison has epread .throughout the whole ,nation. Between 1900 and 1929 the average earnings of factory workers rose from $430 to $1,320. In spite of much sneering, therefore,a real ad- vance in the dollar volume of wages was made daring that erveneful per- iod. But no*, the wages of factory workers are in many cases back to the level of 1900;' in some cases they are well below the figure of those days. ' The American standard of living for the worker is crumbling. It is not only the unemployed who has lost his purchasing power, but the employ- ed as well. It would lie possible to collect together two huge groups GE workers—one group wholly unem- ployed, the other group working either full or part, time; . the first group stipported by public and private relief agencies, the other dependent on wages—without finding very much difference between the relative pur- chasing power of the two groups. The movement to put minimum wage laws on the statute books of all the leading industrial states is of course part of the war against this evil.. Beteit would.be folly to suppose that this can accomplish anythine mote' than a eileht mitigation of the plight of the mos:: unfortunate •ve ...le- ers. The root of the trouble lies deep down in the essential mechanism of our •systeen and is related chiefly to the mortal injury to that system Which slowly brings the whole thing' to a pause. We need minimum wage .laws, but, far more important, we need heroic action by the govern- ment uow—not a few months hence, but now—ttake the initiative in set- ting in motion once again the wheels of industry by cre.atieg new income through a vast program of 'public works. fellow workers, constitutes one of the most distressing phases of this de- pression. The first effect on workers of a depression like the present one is un- employment in ,the margipal indus- tries. This in turn produces a surp- lus of .that kind of labor which is availaiblle for d'csmrestic tservice and kindred fields like restaurants and laundries. And very soon the house- hold serve wage level lbeging- fo exe hibit the effect of the existing' sur- plus. Wages persistently decline un.. til it is possible to read such adver- tisements as that which recently ap- peared in a Detroit newspaper: Wanted: ' White woman for gen- eral housework and care of 'children $lper week. Apply, etc. It must not be supposed that this is an isolated case. The columns from which I selected that advertise- ment had several others that day, while two and three dollars seemed the prevailing rate. This, of course was in Detroit—crushed under the load of unemployment and bank fail- ures. But in Cleveland $3 seems to' be the usual rate and the same thing is true of Chicago. In the latter place somewhat higher wages are of- fered in exceptional cases but' house- wives who offer $7 'a week insist on experienced housekeepers and cooks. At that, domestic workers who re" ceiv.e., board and lodging are better off than thousands of workers in restaurants and laundries who must pay rent from their slender earnings. In Los Angeles thousands of reetauf- ant workers are employed for their meals ()My. Where they work as waiters they do get tips, though in low-priced eating places these amount to a paltryesum. In Chicago many thousands are employed around kit- chenes for their meals only, and there are no tips. This, indeed, is! a form of barter—services for food. Many city workers have gohe on this 'beans standard.' Of course, Much has already been said about conditions in the needle trades where old-time sweatshops feed upon the victims of depression. State laws against sweatshops are evaded by tieing array with the fac- tory. In certain of the needle and novelty trades of New York most of the actual work is farmed out to wo- men who do the work in their homes An example of this kind of work is that of a another and two daughters who do piece work at home, making frogs or men's pyjamas. They are paid 80 cents a gross, and the com- bined 'earnings of the three range around $4 a Week. Another girl crochets- hats at 40 cents a dozen. She cannot make more than 80 cents a .week. It is useless to multiply these incidents. The story would 'be endless. The woman shopper on the hunt for bargains is perhaps amazed at that $2.80 dress which she sees in the shop window. She knows little of the tragedy of .grinding toil which has made .it possible. In the' cloth- ing industry a great deal at the work is done by contractors. On a dress which sells for $2.80 the contractor is allowed 22 eents for the labor. Out of this, of course, he pays his own 44r! d 0‘,4 4 '44 4544P ' She Was Never So Grateful. In Her Life Si, John, N. 13.—"It's almost unbe. Ilevahle—I can't myself realize it— but 'Sargon ended my stomach trou- ble thai; had been pulling me down for eight years," recently declared Mrs. May Kelley, 94 Protection. Street. "Why, I lived almost entirely on mak and 'crackers for a long time, but now I can eat anything 1 Want without a sign of rouble, I've . also been 'entirely freed of OftstiPa- . 'Mo. by Sargon Pitts. They didn't bavejigt stymy opt." A14110140, • • t akt e. ei FARM NOTES Owing to the high protein content and excellent milling qualities of Canadian hard wheat, the Japanese use it in a standard mixing substance with the softer wheats from the other countries from which Japan draws her supplies. The housefly is world-wide in dis- tribution and is notorious for the part it plays in the' dissemination of such dangerous diseases as typhoid, infan- tile diarrhoea, taberculosis, cholera, dysentery, etc, It breeds in filth. v. bees are protected against ex- treme variations of temperature and cold winds in autumn, winter and spring, they are enabled to live l'ong- ea use less food during winter, and build up much more rapidly in the spring., Damage to clothing by moths is caused by the feeding activities of the larvae or caterpillars of these in- sects, not by .the winged moths whose principal funetion in life is to mate and deposit the eggs from which the larvae develo•ps. • 'The horse 'bean was grown in Gen- teel Europe thousand -of years be- fore the Obristian era, and large quantities of seed have been found in excavations at Troy. The old Greeks awl Romans used it to make bread, cakes and porridge. The profitalble production of farm creeps depends upon many factors- -weather coaditions, choice of crops and varieties, the peectiees followed in .producing, harvesting, storing, feeding or merketing, and riot least the nature of the soil and the way it is treated or managed. Complete fertilizers are scold ac- cordin.g to fortmulae. Ari example of one of those is a 2-12-6 (itwo-twelva- six) mixture. This means that such a mixture contains 2 per cent. nitro- gen, 12 per cent. available phosphoric acid, and 6 per cent. of water soluble potash. 'Waren upholstered furniture be- comes infested with moths it is often diffiCult to eradicate the -re. In winter time, however, one excellent and cer- tain cure is to expose the infestea furniture or other articles for a few hours on the verandah when the tem- perature is below zero. All stages of the insect will be destroyed. The stable fly is similar in appear- ance to theo housefly but may be distinguished by its awl -like pro- boseis. This species is most in evi- dence frolte July to October and com- monly live outdoors, entering !houses for shelter in dull or stormy weather. Both sexes suck blood and attack ,dernestie animals and man, inflicting a painful and irritating bite. The summer fallow is h y no means a modern institution but has come down through the ages. The practice apparently was not always for the purpose of conserving Moisture as the ancient injunetion. "Break up your fallow land and sew not . among thorns" suggests the use of the fal- low "as a means of weed erticlicatione Pasture For Pigs » • • Pasture for pigs may undoubtedly he made good use of on the Were age farm. This method .a feeding, boweter, has disadvantage& partite they with the active &moon hog, otv- ing to the opipattnnity Zeit edtedefitive taatteie hailer the land*oint 02hist 41,4 '" • Aldt. •• • be there at 2 o'clock" Bill, Thompson, the threshing machine operator, finds the tele. phone a great time-saver. He telephones ahead so he's never held up for a crew. "We'll be at our place at two," he says to Neil. MacDonald, giv., ing Mac plenty of time to get his neighbors over for the job, where granary partitions have been put ship-shape thanks to Bill's timely notice. Asa work and time saver; as a means of friendly contacts; as a dependable stand-by in emer- gency, you cannot do without your telephone. For 30 cents you can telephone about 100 miles by making an "any- one" call (station - to -station) after 8.30 pan. See list of rates in front of directory. Didta.frice, Lapi 15 surprisingly inexpensive finishing and the liability a little pigs to stunting through sunburn and the combined ,effects of sunburn and dew. .With plenty of skim milk or buttermilk, both the experimental evidence and that of practical feed- ers would indicate that groWing bac- on hogs may be fed for market more economically indoors or in well shad- ed pens, supplied with racks for green feed, preferably in the form of al- falfa or clover. Racks are .essential to the prevention of waste. Ontario Agriculture Well Represent- ed at Regina. A very comprehensive picture of Ontario agriculture is being given be the visitors at the World's Grain Ex- hibition and Conference through the large educational exhibit that has been prepared by the Extension De- partment of O.A.C. for the Ontario Department of Agriculture. .The display is 120 feet in length, and is divided into five units that show the most recent advances in poultry and hog production, and the latest developments in cereal and legume breeding that have beert made in Ontario. Thesefourpanels are 'balanced about the 'central unit which provides a key to the whole scheme with the caption, "Ontario Agricul- ture: A Well Balanced 'Sys.bene With Much Live Stock, and Regular Rota --- tin of Crops." The idea of crop rotations as the most important factor in the success of Ontario agriculture ia also very forcibly presented in the central panel by means of an eight- . foot wheel, which revolves slowly, showing in a eery striking manner the crops and arrangement that go to make up a good rotation for On- tario. - 'Weather Conditions Setback to Ontario Cattle Business Live stock in, Western Ontario is experiencing a setback due to the drought ofthe past two "months, says. George H. Duncan, live stock investi- gator. Ontario Marketing Board. Pastures are dried mit to suoh an ex- tent that cattle are barely...holding their own, even on irecreaseeacreagei of pasture land. Without more fav- orable weather conditions, many cat- tle will be unfinished by the coming autumn, or 'will reach the market later than usual. To obtain best returns the pro- ducer will have to exercise greater care than ever before in, the market- ing of such cattle. 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