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6th. Churning. What farmer's wife would not at once higlily 

 appreciate motive power, in this tedious and ever-recurring 

 operation. 



7th. Turning grindstones. This, when required, is a very 

 laborious task — a real back-ache operation. 



8th. Sawing wood. With a circular saw, one man can cut more 

 wood in one day, than he otherwise could in three weeks. 



9th. Pressing hay and cotton. 



10th. Grinding sugar cane. 



11th. Breaking hemp andflax^ and ginning cotton. 



12th. Making agricultural implements. With power, a little 

 skill, and a few tools, the farmer can make for himself and 

 neighbors, many useful articles, at times when nothing else can be 

 done. 



13th. Elevating water for culinary and other domestic purposes 

 to a tank placed in the upper part of the dwelling, thence to be 

 conveyed by pipes to any part of the house; and with a hose, 

 to be used in case of fire. If no such tank be connected with 

 the barn, the pipes can extend there also. 



14th. Watering stock. This unavoidable duty, on some farms 

 where a large stock is kept, and especially at some seasons of the 

 year, is one of the most chfficult and irksome tasks that the 

 farmer has to perform ; being necessitated sometimes, many 

 times, to drive his entire stock half a mile or a mile to a brook — 

 to dig paths through deep snows, to let down and put up bars, 

 to open gates, to cut holes through the ice, &c., all for want of 

 water in the stock yard ; besides cattle when driven out in cold 

 weather are always " hooking " each other — many times, too, 

 they slip and injury themselves. If a well is at the ham or yard.^ 

 still it requires much time and labor to water a hundred, fifty, 

 twenty-five, or even a dozen head of cattle. When cattle are 

 pastured, often it is the case, tliey must be driven from one field 

 to another for water, when, too, tlie time and attention of the 

 men are much needed for something else. All these evils and 

 inconveniences of watering stock can be obviated Avith the greatest 

 ease, by a windmill, to elevate the water to a tank at sufiicicnt 

 height, for leading it oif in any direction, and thus conveyed to 

 any desired spot on the farm, with the smallest size lead pipe, 

 at the trifling expense of two or three cents per foot. Compare 

 this expense with the time, labor, cost, and annoyance required by 

 the former means to do the same work, for ten or fifteen years, 

 and behold the difference. Tlie benefit, too, of having water 



