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is a safe guess, however, that any one who is inter- 

 ested enough in labor saving to install a water system 

 is not going to do the pumping by hand and is too 

 intelligent to have expensive hired labor do it. Wind- 

 mill power requires a tank large enough to hold at 

 least a three days' supply,; otherwise lack of wind may 

 keep the water system out of commission a good share 

 of the time. In some cases the electric motor, hy- 

 draulic ram, or other special forms of power may be 

 the most practical but for the average farm, for aver- 

 age conditions, gasoline engine power gives by far the 

 best all-round satisfaction. As a pumping engine and 

 all-round source of power for the farm work, the 

 gasoline engine has many advantages. It does not 

 require the services of a trained engineer.' Any man 

 of ordinary intelligence can learn to run it in less than 

 a day. It is light in weight and can be easily moved 

 from one place to another as the work requires. It 

 can be started in a few seconds and will run all day 

 without any attention whatever. It cannot possibly 

 blow up and there is no danger of fire. It is cheaper 

 than hand labor if a pint of gasoline costing two 

 cents can be made to do the work it takes a man eight 

 hours to do, the gasoline should be made to do it. 



With these facts in mind, no farmer needs to be 

 afraid to invest in a good gasoline engine, if necessary, 

 to do his pumping. If he gets a good one, he will get 

 his full money's worth aside from the pumping propo- 

 sition, and, with power furnished, the rest of the ex- 

 penses for a water system will not be especially heavy. 



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