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I lived on a small farm at Roscarnon that had its own, private, water supply so the Americans didn't need to help us with water collections. The pump was in a deep mine shaft about a quarter of a mile away and water was pumped up from there. For what is known in Cornwall as Codling water we had a large mine boiler in the farmyard which virtually reached up to the guttering and which took all the rain water. That served for the livestock and there was a large engine pool on the cliffs which in those days held quite a lot of water. Nowadays it doesn't hold so much water, probably because of the clay bottom, but in those days it held quite a lot of water. I don't know how the animals drank it but I believe they did. They would wade into the pool, stirring up the mud and clay and anything else that was in there. Whether it affected the milk or not I wouldn't like to say. From what I know of agriculture, the supply of water for the livestock probably wasn't adequate.

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