THE USUAL SUMMER PROBLEM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 727, 28 January 1910, Page 10

THE USUAL SUMMER PROBLEM.

MET AND SOLVED. . The} somewhat dry summer': which wo hate been experiencing has made farmers' -oasi ■. about for means of supplementing and_ improving, their.-water supplies. It is such an easy , matter to ' obtain artesian water in. this district (writes our Palmer-ston.-correspondent) that it is}a' wonder that farmers are content to remain short' of supplies ,at , all. This .week Mr. S. B. ianeaster,;the well-known' Jersey cattlebreeder;, has. been: the first on the Pita-' herbert sido of the ilanawatu Eiver to try ; for . artesian water,- and yesterday he struck , a splendid'flow at ;ii%-six feet the; water running strongly, at the rate of about 'thirty., gallons .a minute from the top of a pipe; fifteen feet from the ground. .Mr./Lancaster..,is';so}pleased "with 'his .venture is going; to put down anotlier./Well on a different part of his property." His Neighbours are now arranging with him : to/ put ■ .'down a number of wells for tlicm; 1 What it means to/ dairy, farmers, to havo an: uJifailing supply of icy, cold-water for, millc-cooling and other purposes is almost incalculable, to say nothing, of tho . benefit to stock, etc. ;It. also enhances'/the' value of; the property;-very materially. •