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in the form of a goose neck and distributed the water into the trough through a very small aperture in the end of the pipe, allowing the water to descend into the trough with considerable force. It seemed to me a very nice way of running the water to the trough, because the water being discharged through a small opening in the end of the pipe it entered the trough with sufficient force to keep the water in the trough thoroughly well stirred. The device is very simple, the end of the water pipe being covered with an ordinary small cap which had a hole about one-fourth of an inch in diameter bored through the cap. I enclosed sketch which will show you the way the pipe should be placed. Any ordinary plumber can do the job and I think it would be well to try it for the trough you are about to erect. 

What about the barrel of Newton pippins which I asked you to send me by express to Detroit? Please hurry them along as I am leaving Detroit not later than November twelfth and unless the apples come quickly they still be of no use to me.