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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



SATISFACTORY WORK FROM GASOLINE 

 ENGINES. 



J. M. HENDIUCKS, NEW YOKK, IN ORANGE JUDD FARMER. 



I have had in use on my farm for over two years a 

 gasoline engine of 2y 2 horse power, the cost of which was 

 $135. My experience with it has been very satisfactory. 

 I was a little sqeptical at first about its power ; also some- 

 what shy of gasoline; but when I got the engine, put 

 it up, and saw it work, all fear was dispelled. It did 

 more than the manufacturer claimed for it. It has 

 cost me only 25 cents for repairs, and the machine does 

 not seem to be worn at all. 



Purop water from a bored well over 100 feet for 

 all uses on a 300-acre farm. I keep considerable stock. 

 The engine does it with ease. It has converted a dry 

 farm into one amply supplied with water, without the 

 bother and expense of ditches. I have a large box 

 14x10 feet and 1 foot deep, lined with zinc. It holds 

 about 14 barrels of water and I can and do have fresh 

 and pure water for my stock that any city may envy. 

 To pump this water by hand would be impossible ; and, 

 with a wind engine, it would be too warm in summer 

 and too cold in winter, as you need to keep a supply on 

 hand. 



I use wood altogether for fuel on the farm. The 

 engine attached to a- S4-inch circular saw does it all. 

 I am nearly 60 years of age, and in eight minutes 

 after I light the burner I will be sawing wood; and in 

 two hours I will have more wood for the stove than 

 four men could cut in a day, and with little labor to 

 me. We also grind bone for fowls. If we hare a large 

 washing, by using another attachment we make the 

 engine do it. It will crush and grind feed; in fact, 

 you can utilize it wherever you have need of power. 



The work mine has to do costs me about 3 cents per 

 day. I get six gallons of gasoline every three weeks. 

 I have an airtight metal can and pay 13 cents per gallon. 

 It would be cheaper possibly if bought by the barrel; 

 but it evaporates too readily from a barrel, and the five- 

 gallon can is easier to handle. If I were to use the 

 engine ten hours at its full capacity, the cost would 

 be about 33 cents. But no farmer has use for it continu- 

 ously. It is the cheapest power known. It is cheaper 

 than my horse feed, not counting the gearing up and 

 hitching up, and a hand to mind the horses. Then, too, 

 the engine will pull, no matter how you crowd it. It will 

 just pump itself a little more gasoline and cough away. 

 It consumes gasoline according to the work it does. 



There is no danger without willful carelessness. 

 The engine for its own use has to pump gasoline up hill 

 and pumps it only as it is needed. If it should by 

 chance pump more, there is a tube to allow it to run 

 back into the tank. For still greater safety, if four or 

 five charges should be exploded, the exhaust is sufficient 

 for it. After you start the engine and regulate it, you 

 do not need an engineer. It runs itself, and will run 

 as long as there is gasoline in the tank. 



I never made a better investment in machinery. 

 Other machines I use in their season. I use this engine 

 all the year. A great many farmers and some from a 

 distance have come to see it work, and all were well 

 pleased. Some of them hare purchased engines. A 

 good way for many farmers to use them would be to 

 bolt them on a truck to be used anywhere on the farm. 

 I have mine stationary in a small well house, and have it 

 so arranged that I can change from one job to another 

 in from not more than two to three minutes' time. I 



think every well-managed farm is not complete until 

 there is a. gasoline engine upon it and rigged for work. 

 Why chop wood, pump water, turn the grindstone, grind 

 your apples for cider, grind your feed for stock the 

 old way, and by hand, when you can have a; power that 

 will do it for you, and cheaper than you ever did it? 

 Help on the farm is getting scarce everywhere. 



The third annual report of the irrigation investi- 

 gations of the office of experimental stations, United 

 States Department of Agriculture, made under the di- 

 rection of Elwood Mead, says that averages of measure- 

 ments, embracing nearly all of the arid states, show 

 that during the past three years enough water was 

 turned into the heads of ditches during the irrigation 

 season to cover the land irrigated to a depth of 4.45 

 feet, or, stated in another way, 4.45 acre feet of water 

 were taken from streams for every acre of land irri- 

 gated. 



CANYON 



George W. Bowman and a number of capitalists as- 

 sociated with him contemplate the reclamation of a con- 

 siderable area of fertile lands at Socorro. The company 

 will purchase 1,840 acres of bottom land stretching east- 

 ward from the Cocorro depot. It is fertile land but 

 undfained. ' About 340 acres will be reserved for a 

 townsite and park and the remainder after it is drained, 

 will be plowed and irrigated from the Rio Grande and 

 set out in staple crops. The company is also negotiating 

 for the purchase of the Socorro Fire Clay Works from 

 Edward Dodd, of Albuquerque. An electric light plant 

 and water works will also be put in. 



The Eartham Electric Company of Denver is erect- 

 ing a 150 horse power pumping plant at Las Cruces that 

 will furnish water to orchards during the dry season. 

 The project is considered a feasible and profitable one. 

 Santa Fe New Mexican. 



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