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minutes so that if you draw fvoiu a hy- 

 drant only a single pailful, it will start at 

 once and replace the pailful. Several of 

 my friends had automobiles with peridiar 

 troubles that seemed to defy ordinary skill. 

 It seemed just fun for George to " diase 

 down " and " make good " all these, while 

 waiting for some delayed part of our elec- 

 tiie outfit. 



He is the very model of a strong, healthy 

 ])hysique. Even his 200 rounds oi- more 

 seems no im])ediment to his climbing wind- 

 mill towers like a squirrel. Perhaps never 

 before in the world's history was there sucii 

 a demand for clean, vigorous manhood, 

 and a briglit, clear mind comes only with a 

 clean, healthy body. 



Thei-e are many evidences just now to 

 show that wind is soon to receive more at- 

 tention than ever before. Below is a clip- 

 ping from tlie Practical Farmer: 



While lookins; around for extra labor on the farm 

 this year, let's not overlook our two greatest help- 

 ers — wind and water. These two forces are often 

 only thought of as being destructive, altho they have 

 of late years been put to various kinds of work 

 thru the agency of modern equipment. It is no un- 

 common thing now to find a farm illuminated and 

 much of the light labor done by eleictricity generated 

 by the creek which has always been running down 

 bill. Washing, ironing, cleanings, separating, churn- 

 ing, and a host of men's chores are done by water 

 power at i)racti(ally no expense after the tirst in- 

 sfallation. 



Wind, which is ,iust as free as water as a source 

 of power, has in. many cases saved work and time 

 in doing some of the necessary farm labor. This 

 year its possibilities can bei appreciated more than 

 ever before, since it will take a working in unison 

 of all forces to see us successfully tluui a war which 

 we are fighting for our veiry existemce. 



Here is another, clipped from an ad- 

 vertisement of a pumping windmill : 



You still get the wind free. With prices of every- 

 tliing soaring skyward, wind is free. We hope it 

 will stay so. Utilize it and pump your water for 

 ]iothing. 



In regard to running automobiles by wind 

 power, at present (April 2) it would seem 

 that, to store the battei'ies to full capacity* 

 (which must be done at least occasionally), 

 a pretty strong wind for quite a consider- 

 able time is needed — very much stronger 

 than is required for lighting the house and 

 outbuildings and doing other similar work. 

 Of course we liave a device that throws the 

 current on and off, so we can utilize the 

 breeze that springs up in the night, as T 

 have explained on former ])ages; but if one 

 expects to run his ear sevei'al miles a day, 

 and do it ever^' day, it would i)robably re- 

 ([uire a Avindier locality (say North or Soutli 



*I have succeeded in getting (ill miles on one full 

 charge here in Florida, where we have no hills. 

 I'n'ess, however, you have paved roads, the Florida 

 sand is even worse than hills. 



Dakota) than those we have here in Florida, 

 or else a bigger windmill. Oui- is only 14 

 feet. 



Permit me to quote a single sentence from 

 a letter just at hand from H. H. Koot : 



Dear Father: — I wish I could see you this morn- 

 ing delivering your potatoes by a power derived from 

 the sky. I imagine that the new scheme of transpor- 

 tation is giving you a greater thrill than the finest 

 railroad train or automobile rido evcir gave you in 

 the past, and well it may. 



Huber has hit it exactly in the above, 

 and the picture below shows the auto and 

 myself with one of the loads of potatoes 

 tliat I ha\-e been carrying to town claily for 

 the i)ast two weeks. 



Some of the potatoes that were hauled to market on 

 the auto propelled by the windmill-made eleictricity. 



Just a word in closing about lighting 

 our homes by wind ))ower. A very gentle 

 breeze indeed will light one or more elec- 

 tric globes, especially if you use the 32-volt 

 globes generally used in the home-lighting 

 plants. While the mill was standing still 

 T placed one of these in our dining-room. 

 Mrs. Koot awakened in the night and saw 

 such a blaze of brilliant light that she first 

 thought the house was on fire. You see a 

 breeze had started up. Without a battery 

 the light dances up and down, from noth- 

 ing at all, and just now the expense (and 

 upkeep) of the battery is the great obstacle 

 in the way of home-lighting outfits. Jt 

 is true the elefctricity goes straight from 

 the windmill to the work; but the battery 

 serves to take and store, whenever there is 

 a siu'iilus, and also to give out when there 

 is not enough current or when the mill stops 

 entirely. The same batteries that run the 

 automobile will answer for lightng and for 

 other ]jurposes providing you have wind 

 cnouyh for botli. 



