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say that all the way from fifteen to forty acres may be 

 irrigated, by employing various mills that may raise water 

 at any distance from ten to one hundred feet. 



It is best, in arranging to put in a windmill plant, to 

 place it on the highest advantageous point on the farm, 

 for the two-fold purpose of commanding every passing 

 breeze and of carrying the water that has been raised to 



FIG. 69. AN IDEAL WINDMILL AND RESERVOIR PLANT. 



its final destination by the gravity process. There are 

 so many methods of raising water by pumps that the 

 writer despairs of fully covering all of them, and must 

 only be expected to touch upon a few of the most prac- 

 tical ones now in use. An ideal reservoir and win'.!- 



