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Horse-power macnines, too, are not free from objections for the 

 farmer's use. 



1st. Their first cost is much greater than a windmill of equal 



power. 



2d. The majority of them are very ruinous to horses. Some 

 kinds of them, too, affording a nice trap for breaking their legs. 



3d. They are inadequate to the wants of the farmer in many 

 instances; as running mill-stones, draining and watering land, 

 &c. 



4th. The horses being required for other purposes, sometimes 

 when power is needed, makes great inconvenience. 



5th. Horse, or muscular force in any form, as well as steam, 

 requires fuel for its sujjport. 



Some of the advantages of wi7id as a motive power for the 

 farmer, are 



1st. The first outlay will be less than for any other power of 

 equal capacity. 



2d. When the windmill is once erected, there is no expense 

 required to keep it in operation ; hence, when it will answer the 

 pui-pose required, it is the most economical power known. 



3d. It requires no skill or attention for its operation. 



4th. Once up, it is entirely out of the way. 



5th. The force of the wind, being so variable, (being as the 

 square of its velocity,) will at times be enormously powerful, 

 thus, some of the time, supplying a7iy amount of power. 



6th. Windmills, as they require no attention, will work nights, 

 making the night-time as valuable as the day, for watering and 

 draining land, elevating water for stock, &c., which is net gain 

 over any other power. 



Among the many things which the farmer can accomplish with 

 a windmill, (and suitable apparatus,) are, 



1st. Grinding grain — all such at least as is to be fed on the 

 premises— obviating the necessity of carrying it many miles often 

 "to mill" and bringing only a part of it back. Besides, it can 

 be ground in small quantities, and thus always had fresh. 



2d. Threshing grain — a work which forcibly illustrates the 

 advantages of motive power to the farmer. 



3d. Husking and shelling corn. 



4th. Winnowing and cleaning grain. 



5th. Cutting feed of all kinds, and thus working in and using 

 much that would otherwise be wasted. 



