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very extensive proportions. As a traction engine it is unsur- 

 passed in efficiency and unequalled in economy of every kind. 

 No licensed engineer is required and a boy may safely be put 

 in charge of it. It carries upon itself the fuel required for a 

 day's operation, and no extra wagon with a water tank is 

 necessary. The difficulty of keeping up steam in cold weather 

 is obviated ; there is no water to freeze, and in every respect 

 the engine may be run as readily and cheaply in the coldest 

 winters of the Northwest as at any other time or in any local- 

 ity. But the gasoline engine is not only made in traction 

 form for heavy work. They are made as stationary engines 

 of small units for pumping and similar purposes, and they arc 

 made portable, being placed upon trucks. In this form they 

 may be hauled all over the place, out into the woods, along- 

 side of the kitchen wood yard, into the barn lot to be belted to 

 the feed grinder, the fodder shredder, the corn sheller or the 

 silage cutter, as the case requires. They may be hauled into 

 the barn or alongside of a strawstack and run without danger, 

 for the process of ignition is wholly within the engine cylin- 

 der and the cylinder itself is kept constantly cooled by a jacket 

 of water. The notion that a gasoline engine is dangerous is 

 rapidly being relegated to the limbo of that other notion that 

 the kerosene lamp is dangerous. As a matter of fact, the 

 engine is far less dangerous than the lamp, and may be taken 

 into surroundings with impunity and perfect safety where it 

 would not be wise to take a lamp. It is indeed not wise to 

 smoke a pipe or burn matches about a gasoline tank, but 

 neither is it wise to build a bonfire in your cellar. With the 

 exercise of reasonable precaution, the gasoline engine is an 

 absolutely safe machine to have upon the farm. 



When its facility of handling and wide utility is considered, 



