Popular Science Monthly 



213 



A traction engine of novel form at work. 

 This machine is one of the many attempts 

 which have been made to supply a small 

 traction engine which can be profitably 

 used upon farms of moderate size. The 

 problem of supplying such a tractor is more 

 difficult than that of a cheap automobile 



Running a cream separator with 

 a small engine. The same en- 

 gine can be employed for other 

 dairy work and for dozens of 

 other uses on the farm 



So varied is the work to be done 

 upon a farm that the engine must 

 be readily movable from one place 

 to another. The photograph shows 

 a small engine which has been 

 movmted upon a truck so that it can 

 be readily shifted about. It has 

 been geared with wheels so that it 

 can be attached to the mower shown, 

 which can be run by a thirteen year 

 old boy and faster than with horses 



Above is an installation 

 which shows how a gas 

 engine can be used to 

 drive a conveyor by means 

 of which a wagon can be 

 loaded, or hay or grain 

 stacked and stored. At 

 the left is an engine used 

 to chum butter and pump 

 water at the same time 



