14 THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



windmills, such as would cost less than ten dollars, so at least to save 

 the garden. They made little windmills of old machinery, with any- 

 thing for fans that would turn the wind into service. One man favor- 

 ably situated made the wings of his little mill of coffee sacks, and ir- 

 rigated five acres for five dollars. Some used barrel- staves with fence 

 'wire; others turned roofing-tin to this service. A few years served to 

 show the- value of these home-made windmills in many arid localities. 

 The idea spread, the mills enlarged, when, presto, change, those who 

 experimented with the little home-made mills had gardens, while those 

 who did not had withered acres! Now a book has appeared on the 

 subject. The traveler may see green gardens in many places over 

 which curious windmills of home production are turning. 



The agricultural experiment station in Nebraska sent out an ob- 

 server among those windmill gardens. His published report is most 

 interesting to young farmers in the Middle West. The home made 

 Tfindmills offer new opportunity in garden farming. It is one of the 

 new suggestions that will help to bring a new order of farming to the 

 true-hearted industrious young farmers of the Middle West. 



There is room for "two windmills" in most of the fields of honest 

 industry. Costa Rica protects her coffee; the United States of Colum- 

 bia her cocoabeans, and Florida is developing protected orange 

 groves which will yield golden fortunes. Glass gardens are filling 

 New England. 



Wendell Philips used to says that there were two kinds of people 

 in the world one kind "went ahead and did something; the other 

 showed how it should have been done in some other way." There are 

 a multitude of people that reason that there will not be room for two 

 windmills in the same field. There is room. " He can who thinks he 

 can, " and a purpose of success will make a way anywhere. 



The writer spends his life in writing narratives of travel, and has 

 traveled considerably, and one of the things that has greatly inter- 

 ested him is how people are protecting their crops in our own and 

 other countries. The example of brave little Holland is being fol 

 lowed the world over, and the people who have the idea that two 

 windmills cannot be run in one lot are disappearing. Let me give 

 some examples of crop protection which I have seen by the way, be- 

 ginning at New England. 



Some years ago there arose in Arlington, Mass. , a glass garden. 

 It was for the raising of cucumbers. It was remarkably successful. 

 It grew and spread, and became almost a farm. It was imitated. One 

 may see such gardens glittering along the old family roads around 

 Boston; and near Fall River, on what is called Gardener's Neck, and 

 near it one may see wonderful developments of New England farming 

 under glass. There is a farm in Connecticut that has ten acres under 



