THE GENESEE FAEMEfi. 



munitv essential service if they would manufacture a supply of these mills and .adapt them to some 

 of their improved pumps. 



" In all this, gentle reader, there is no Quixotism. Its feasibility has been amply tested. "We 

 mav, however, trespass on the peculiar province of the Don, and, like him, get our heads -bruised 

 when we give play to our imaginations ou this subject. We will venture on the movement: 



" Attempts are every where making to ornament and improve country and suburban residences. 

 Few localities arc natxirally furnished with the means of supplving a jet tf em(, yet it is one of the 

 most important ornamental additions art can supply to such filaces. One of nioderatesize can be 

 constructed at anv point where a well with permanent and abundant springs can be obtaineii witliin 

 twenty-eight feet of tlie surface of the ground. Practieallj', beyond that depth, this mill will not 

 raise water with much success. It is obvious that the same wind operating on one mill, and raising 

 a given quantity of water twenty-eight feet, would, by acting on a second mill, raise the 6ame water 

 an additional twenty-eight feet. 



Suppose an architect should sketch a barn, or other out-building, with two spires or towers of 

 suitable height and dimensions, giving them an air of taste and beauty. The outline I have 

 attempted to suppjly in Plate II, but not the finish. 



A, represents a well, either under or contiguous to one of the spires. B, first wind-mill, working 

 pump, C, placed on the center of a wooden cistern, D, of thirty or forty hogsheads capacity, whose 

 bottom is perforated with pump stem, E, E, extending down into the water in the well. F, second 

 wind-mill, working pump, G, and filling reservoir, II, of similar capacity, from reservoir, D, through 

 a tube I, I. J, J, conducting tube. 0, the hydropathic mermaid, cascading dolphin, or any other 

 monster fancy may create. I, stop-cock to let the water ou the jet. IST, stop-cock to let the water 

 directly into the basin, and not through the jet. The waste water is finally dircharged into the 

 well, A, by tube, M. The pressure on tiie tube, J, J, might be too heavy while the water was- not 

 discharging at the basin ; stop-cock P would relieve it. The waste water from cistern, H, when 

 full, may be discharged through tube R, into the conducting tube, J, J. 



" By these arrangements, sixty or eighty hogsheads of water would always be at command, and at 

 an elevation at which it might be conducted over the dwelling house, lawn, garden, trees, &c. 

 During calm weather it would keep a jet of moderate dimensions in play for several hours, aud in 

 windy weather tlie su]iply would be constant. On the shores of Lake Erie no day passes without 

 furnishing wind enough to keep the reservoirs replenished. In case of fire they would be equal to 

 an ordinary fire engine. 



"Is this Quixotism?" J. P. Kiktland. — dleveland Ohio. 



