WATER SUPPLY FOR THE FARM. 



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President Barnard of Columbia College, New York, says: &quot;They adapt themselves 

 admirably to the circumstances of sparse settlements, in prairie districts, and low alluvial 

 regions where streams are few and sluggish, where fuel is costly, and where the population, 

 chiefly engaged in the cultivation of the soil and living in comparative isolation from each 

 other, find the conversion of their grains into flour and meal for domestic use a serious tax 

 upon both their time and means. To such, it would be very useful for the elevation of water 

 for drainage, for grinding, and many of the other exigencies of rural life.&quot; 



And not only are they adapted to such localities as President Barnard has described, but 



they can be finished with such 

 taste as not to be an inappropriate 

 attachment to the elegant suburban 

 buildings of any country gentle 

 man, by means of which a cheap 

 water supply can be obtaiiied for 

 the house, garden, stable, fountain, 

 fish-pond, lake, and various other 

 uses. 



The water can thus be brought 

 from well, spring, or river, at 

 almost any distance, and delivered 

 in the house, barn, or elevated 

 tank in a tower, from which it 

 may be drawn for any desired 

 purpose. Towers can be very or 

 namentally constructed for the 

 double purpose of water supply 

 and observatory in the upper por 

 tion, while studios or reading- 

 rooms can be made on the first 

 and second stories of the tower. 

 They are made to run quietly, 

 with no annoyance of noise or 

 rattle of any kind, while a boy 

 can easily keep one in order. 



The foregoing illustrations of 

 the Iron Turbine and the Eclipse 

 wind-mills, by Mart, Foos, & Co., 

 Springfield, Ohio, and the Eclipse 

 &quot;Wind-Engine Co., Beloit, Wiscon 

 sin, respectively, show admirably 

 IN MOTION. fa e construction and working of 



such farm machines that are becoming at present so common in many sections. 



The above cut represents a front view of the latter wind-mill, when facing full in the 

 wind. On the right appears the small side vane (the rudder in the rear not shown), which 

 is attached to the same casting as the wheel, and against which the wind, as it increases to a 

 gale, blows, and acting as a lever, takes the wheel around to the side of the rudder out of the 

 way of the wind, in the same way that a door, if not latched, blows open and presents no 

 resistance to the wind. 



The figure on the following page represents the mill at rest, when pulled out of the wind 

 or closed by a storm, no part of which presents a resistance to the wind, except the edge of 



