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to place it on the highest advantageous point on the 

 farm, for the twofold purpose of commanding every 

 passing breeze and of carrying the water that has been 

 raised to its final destination by the gravity process. 





FIG. 75 — AN IDEAL WINDMILL AND RESERVOIR PLANT. 



There are so many methods of raising water by pumps 

 that the writer despairs of fully covering all of them, 

 and must only be expedled to touch upon a few of the 

 most practical ones now in use. An ideal reservoir 

 and wind-engine pumping plant is shown in Fig. 75, 

 and a windmill plant in operation in Fig. 76. 



