And This in a Mechanical A^e! 



A horse driving 

 a type of thresh- 

 ing-machine 

 often found on 

 small farms in 

 northernFrance. 

 Americans long 

 ago outgrew this 

 expensive and 

 wasteful method 

 of obtaining 

 driving power 



The second pic- 

 ture shows a 

 water- wheel 

 driven by a 

 horse attached 

 to a gin. It irri- 

 gates a small 

 farm near Tou- 

 louse, France. 

 Horizontal 

 troughs receive 

 the water drawn 

 from the well. 

 The ancient 

 Egyptians in- 

 vented this 

 abomination 



Below: A dog- 

 treadmill used in 

 France. The 

 wheel is belted 

 to a pump which 

 raises water into 

 a market- 

 gardener's tank, 

 near Orleans 



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