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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1912 



The Aerinotor with the auto- 

 matic regulator stops when the 

 tank is full and starts 

 when the water is 

 lowered i inches. You 

 oil it once a week. A 

 gasoline engine has to 

 be started and stopped and 

 oiled and attended almost con- 

 stantly, and you have large ex- 

 pense for gasoline and oil. Th 

 wind is free. 

 We make gasoline engines i ex- 

 ceedingly good ones 1 but. for the average water 

 supply for the home and 150 head of stock, an 

 8-foot Aermotor with a storage tank — which is 

 a necessity with any kind of water supply— is all 

 that is needed and is by far the more economi- 

 cal. The supply of wind for the Aermotor is more 

 to be relied upon than the supply of gasoline, 

 batteries and repairs for the gasoline engine. 



The cost of gasoline, oil. batteries and repairs 

 in pumping for 150 head of stock with a gaso- 

 line engine, will buy an 8-foot Aermotor every 

 year, and you are still to the bad the amount 

 of time you spend over the gasoline engine. 



But the gasoline engine has its place on the 

 farm notwithstanding the fact that 100 people 

 are maimed or killed with gasoline where one is 

 injured by a windmill, and that 100 farm build- 

 ings are burned with gasoline where none is in- 

 jured by a windmill. For the water supply the 

 windmill is the thing. Thousands of farmers 

 who have done their first power pumping by a 

 gasoline engine have become tired of it and are 

 buying wind mills That is one reason why our 

 windmill business increases from year to year. 

 We can furnish you much testimony like the 

 following: 



Devine. Tex.. Dec. 16, iqu. 

 I am sending you a photo- 

 graph of one of the oldest 

 windmills in this country — 

 it being the first Aermotor put 

 up in Medina County— and is 

 used to furnish water for hun- 

 dreds of head of cattle. It was 

 put up in the year tSSo and is 

 owned by Mr. Murdo Mon- 

 roe. The only repairs this 

 mill has ever needed are one 

 small gear and a rocker arm, 

 the total cost of which was 

 This Aermotor is still 

 running and doing good ser- 

 vice, furnishing water for 

 cattle and family. 



LOUIS GACOXET. 



Find . if you can. a state- 

 ment like this regard- 

 ing gasoline engines. 



Of course, there are places where a windmill 

 cannot be used. There you will have to use a 

 gasoline engine, with all of its disadvantages. 

 We will furnish lor that place a small engine 

 which costs but $37.50 complete, so it can be set 

 to pumping in 30 minutes. Or we will furnish 

 you a pump jack — the best made— for $6.00. 

 to do pumping with a larger gasoline engine. 



Send, for catalogue giving full information 

 about water supply. Aermotor Co.. Chicago. 

 Branch Houses: Oakland, Cal.: Kansas City, 

 Mo. : Minneapolis. Minn. 



Write for Information 



W. F. Barlow, Jr., Architect 



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The Little "Bleeding Heart" 



LAST year I let the plumy "bleeding heart" 

 into my hardy garden and I must say that 

 I like it mighty well. Unlike its big relative, it 

 does not distress me by turning yellow while the 

 summer is still young. On the contrary its really 

 beautiful foliage, finely cut, stays fresh until 

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 little more than a foot high, it is especially desirable 



The plumy bleeding heart (Dicaitra formosa) keeps 

 its foliage green until frost and blooms all the season 



for the border's edge or when allowed to run at 

 will where a naturalistic effect is sought. It is 

 anything but slow to run. My fifteen cents' 

 worth of plant I divided into three plants when I 

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 more than two feet across. And I have given away 

 several pieces besides. I bought it for Dielvtra 

 (Dicculra formosa) but I suspect that it sometimes 

 masquerades as D. eximia in the catalogues, and 

 vice versa. I don't know that I particularly care 

 which mine is; I like it and that is the important 

 thing. 



Connecticut. J. E. S. 



A Dwarf Clematis 



AN INTERESTING native plant that is only 

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