TWO WINDMILLS IN ONE LOT, 



BY HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH, IN Farm and Fireside.. 



The time of protected crops is at hand, and the "glass gardens"" 

 of New England and the irrigating windmills of Dakota but follow 

 the suggestion of the most productive crop-raising abroad. The dike- 

 and windmill made Holland a garden, and one of the most beautiful of 

 all garden lands of the world. Nowhere do flowers bloom brighter; 

 nowhere do small plants yield more vegetables. 



A Holland story is told of a man who acquired an estate with' 

 two mills on one lot. He caused one of them to be taken down, be- 

 cause there might not be wind enough for two windmills in one field. 



"Out West " there is wind enough for two windmills in a single' 

 field, and an irrigated garden even in the short season of the Dakotas. 

 will support a family. Thousands of toilers in the Northwest have 

 gone into debt, mortgaged their farms, into which they had put their 

 hard-earned money, and lost all they had. Their crops failed for the' 

 want of water. "I could have succeeded had I had the means of irri- 

 gation,' 1 has been said thousands of times by the hapless, half-starved 

 wheat farmer,, as he turned.back to some city to live in a few rooms of 

 an apartment house, and to work for small wages, a slave to circum- 

 stances. A modern hydraulic machine or a simple patented windmill 

 for raising water would have saved his crops, turned his fields into 

 gold, made him a home in the pure airs of Nebraska or the Dakotas,. 

 and surrounded that home with cotton-trees, shrubs, vines, etc. But 

 he had no means of securing such hydraulic power. 



Farmers rushed into the Dakotas and the Middle Northwest and 

 raised a single crop of wonderful proportions. They saw a clear for- 

 tune for them in a few years in their mind's. eye. They thought they 

 saw how much money they could borrow on next year's crop. The 

 East lent them money. The next year brought a drought; the "next"" 

 year a crop almost ready to harvest, but which suddenly shrank and 

 withered for want of water. They must live; their families must be 

 supported. 



How they struggled and toiled, and wrote to their friends in the 

 East for help, or perhaps to relatives in Europe! Their friends 

 helped them for a time, and then inconsiderately lost faith. How 

 those poor wives toiled and prayed and wept alone! How true these 

 sufferings and disappointments made the whole family to each other! 

 All that was needed was water or the money to procure it. The 

 needed water was running in streams just below the earth. 



Certain farmers in Nebraska who could, not get away or purchase 

 expensive hydraulic power, -turned their attention to home-made 



