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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Electricity is making its way to the 

 farm work at last. In the line of har- 

 nessing it for work, a Danish farmer has 

 made a successful experiment of its use 

 for threshing. It is not, however, as a 

 motive power alone that electricity prom- 

 ises to assist the agriculturist. French 

 scientists have been at work experimenting 

 with it as to its influence on growing 

 crops. They have succeeded in hastening 

 the germination of peas, beans and corn 

 by the use of the electric current. Re- 

 nouncing batteries and powerful engines, 

 which are too expensive and intricate for 

 farmers to use, they have used a new in- 

 vention called the geomagnetifere, which 

 consists of an ordinary pole forty to fifty 

 feet high, on top of which is insulated a 

 row of copper spikes to collect electricity 

 from the atmosphere. An insulated wire 

 transmits the fluid to a network of gal- 

 vanized iron wires buried four to six feet 

 under the crops to be experimented on. 

 The electricity seems to act as a powerful 

 fertilizer. 



C. M. Palmer, of Fond du Lac, Wis. , 

 has received a patent on an improved clip- 

 ping machine for shearing sheep. The 

 machine is operated by a small electric 

 motor and is said to have increased the 

 capacity. 



He's a fine old Irish gentleman, 



But he's angry when he's vexed. 

 He'll buy you drinks one minute, 



An' break your face the next. 

 He's a fine old Irish gentleman 



He's a pal as you can trust: 

 He's all right when you knows him, 



But you's got to know him fust. 



Minneapolis Journal. 



A MODEL GASOLINE ENGINE. 



In Texas a very large number of Weber 

 gasoline engines are in use on ranches 

 and in towns. They operate feed mills 

 and newspaper presses and corn shellers 

 and grinders on feeding ranches as well as 

 having a multiplicity of uses in the towns. 

 In California and Arizona they are used 

 in irrigation plants and to operate hy- 

 draulic and other mining machinery. On 

 Kansas farms they shell and grind corn, 

 run threshers and pump water from murky 

 creeks into irrigation ditches. A vast 

 number of them are in use in Louisiana, 

 where they are used on rice plantations 

 and as general farm engines. 



The things that recommended gasoline 

 engines are many, among them their great 



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