396 Transactions of the American Institute. 



Windmills. 



Mr. 0. A. Brown, Momerville, Ohio, inquired it' it- is feasible to 



use w i 1 1< I as ;i motive power, and, if so, what would be the probable 

 cost of a four or six horse power \ 



Dr. J. Ware Sylvester — At Syracuse ;i windmill pumps all the 

 water for the railroad trains, and works well. 



Mr. BriggS -When I visited the Pacific slope 1 found windmills 

 Scattered everywhere, particularly in the; Santa Clara valley. They 

 did not seem to he expensive all'airs at all. 



The Chairman I think $100 invested would give the power our 



friend asks for. I have in mind a windmill that pumps, grinds and 

 funis farm machinery of vnrions sorts, and its cost was not greater 

 than the sum I mention. Of course the rods and COgS or belts that 

 connect the shaft of the fans with the saw or other machine cost more 



or less, according to the ingenuity of the farmer and the cheapness 

 of labor, 



Corn Culture in Kansas. 

 Mr. S. French, Silver hake I am located on the river bottom 

 land, deep, mellow, and somewhat sandy, Experience has proved 

 that deep plowing is advantageous; but the manner of cultivation, I 



am convinced, is erroneous. One horse is used, and a doiihle shovel 

 plough. Upon this warm soil corn grOWS rapidly. 



In four or six weeks the roots will he two and even three lectin 



Length. This I know from having examined repeatedly. The sec- 

 ond time plowing, as we pass each hill, we snap these roots. 1 saw a 



neighbor at work in his corn, and he was cultivating \cv\ deep* rais- 

 ing his plow from the ground ; roots of corn were hanging across the 



blades of it. Would it not be/betljer to use some implement which 



would effectually clean the row and not go more than two or three 

 inches deep? 



Mr. -I. B. Lyman I saw a good deal of oorn-raising in Kansas last 



summer. One farm that I visited was remarkahle for its crop; there 

 were seventy live shelled hnshels on each of fifty two acres, cultivated 

 by two men. It was plowed in the usual way, ahoiit seven inches 



deep, and harrowed line. Then a light, one-horse iplow. struck out the 



rows, and a man, walking in the furrow, dropped the corn at proper 

 intervals, and led a. horse that drew a Hat, triangular stone. This 

 stone, coming righl along the furrow, drew the earth in, and covered 

 the corn and pressed the soil over the row. In cultivation no plows 

 were used, hut the surface was kept clean by frequent cultivation 



