Preface 9 



for what they have done to bring my system 

 and device to the notice of agriculturists ; espe- 

 cially the Farm, Field, and Stockman, the Dairy 

 World, the Indiana Farmer, the New England 

 Farmer, the Rural New Yorker, the State 

 Board of Agriculture of Pennsylvania, in their 

 Report of 1888, the Scientific American, and 

 several papers in foreign languages that have 

 volunteered to publish and illustrate this in- 

 vention as a public benefit ; also, those papers 

 that have advertised my system and governor, 

 without admitting me to their editorial columns, 

 although they state that they advertise nothing 

 that they cannot recommend. 



All the editorial and other matter herein 

 presented as copied from those papers has 

 been published for the benefit of the readers 

 of the above-named papers without expense to 

 me, excepting the use of my engravings for 

 illustration. 



I also insert, with these previously published 

 accounts, the remarks of the former editor of 

 the Massachusetts Ploughman in relation to 

 the meeting and investigations of the farmers 

 as to the merits of the silo governor, at which 

 meeting the following closing remarks were 

 made by Mr. Ware: 



" The chairman of the meeting, at its open- 



