June, 1912 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
XV1i 
The Aermotor with the auto- 
matic regulator stops when 
the tank By full and 
Ve: starts when the 
aar water is lowered 4 
inches. You oil it 
onee a week. A 
gasoline engine has to be 
started and stopped and oiled 
and attended almost constantly, 
and you have large expense for 
gasoline and oil. The wind is 
free. 
We make gasoline engines (exceedingly 
good ones) 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 morc 
economical. The supply of wind for the Aer- 
motor is more to be relied upon than the supply 
of gasoline, batteries and repairs for the gaso- 
line engine. 5 
The cost of gasoline, oil, batteries and re- 
Pairs in pumping for 150 head of stock with a 
gasoline 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 
buildings are burned with gasoline where none 
is injured by a windmill. Forthe watersupply, 
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 windmills. 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, 1911. 
l amsending 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 hundreds of head of cat- 
tle. Itwasputupinthe year 
1889 and is owned by Mr. 
Murdo Monroe. The only 
repairs this mill has ever 
needed are one smal] gear 
and a rocker arm, the total 
cost of which was$2.50. This 
Aermotor is still running and 
doing good service, furnish- 
ing water for cattle and 
family. 
LOUIS GACONET. 
Find, if you can, astate- 
ment like this regarding 
gasoline engines. 
Of course, there are places where a windmill 
cannot be used. There you will have to usea 
gasoline engine, with all of its disadvantages, 
We will furnish for that place a small engine 
which costs but $37.50 complete, soit 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. 
“COLONIAL HOUSES” 
A collection of designs showing meapertves in that ever beautiful 
le with floor plans arranged to meet the requirements of modem 
days. Contains designs ranging in cost from $5,000 to $30,000. 
Prices $2.00 by express prepaid. 
Also “STUCCO HOUSES” 
with new designs for 1912. It shows designs costing from $9,000 
to $35,000. Price $5.00 express prepaid. 
S. CHILD, ARCHITECT 
29 Broadway New York City 
HESS sit LOCKER 
Room 1020 
The Only Modern, Sanitary 
STEEL Medicine Cabinet 
or locker finished in snow-white, baked 
everlasting enamel, inside and out. 
Beautiful beveled mirror door. Nickel 
plate brass trimmings. Steel or glass 
shelves. 
Costs Less Than Wood 
Never warps, shrinks, nor swells. Dust 
and vermin proof, easily cleaned. 
Should Be In Every Bathroom 
Four styles—four sizes. To recess in 
wall or to hang outside. Send for illus- 
trated circular. 
HESS, 926 Tacoma Building, Chicago 
Makers of Steel Furnaces.—Free Booklet 
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Medicine Cabinet 
couping myself except by forcing, as it 
were, some manufacturer to take it up, and 
I should have gone from one to the other 
and represented its advantages, and I should 
have found someone who would have taken 
it up on the offer of some advantage from 
me, and who would have seen his capital 
recouped, by the fact that no other manu- 
facturer could have it quite on the same 
terms for the next year or two. Then the 
invention becomes at once introduced, and 
the public admits its value ; and other manu- 
facturers, like a flock of sheep, come in. 
But the difficulty is to get the first man 
to move. The first man might say: “Oh, 
my machinery cost me a great deal of 
money. I have my regular trade, and this 
new scheme is sure to be more trouble to 
me in the first instance; and when every- 
body, asks for it, every other manufacturer 
will be in a condition to supply it, so it is 
not worth my while!” I believe inventions 
which are at first free gifts are apt to come 
to nothing.’ ” 
CHINESE WATER-NUTS 
HE United State Daily Consular and 
Trade Report recently contained the 
following interesting paragraphs about 
the horned ling—water chestnut—of 
China: 
“The term ‘water chestnut’ in China is 
indiscriminately applied to several va- 
rieties of nut fruit of plants growing in 
water, which form a considerable portion 
of the food supply of many natives. They 
are so well liked by Chinese that large 
quantities of the nuts are exported to va- 
rious parts of the world, particularly to 
Chinese in the United States and the 
Philippines. 
“Perhaps the more widely scattered 
species is that known by the Chinese in 
the Yangtse Valley country as ‘ling’ and 
in the Canton country as ‘ling kok.’ This 
nut is shaped much like the two horns 
of a water buffalo or Texas steer, includ- 
ing a portion of the skull. The shell is 
so hard as to require cracking, and the 
kernel is comparatively small and con- 
sists of almost pure starch. 
“The ‘ling’ or ‘ling kok’ is the variety 
most generally noticed by travelers along 
the canals and ponds of central China. 
On the canal system connected with the 
Grand Canal in Che-kiang Province and 
in that canal itself the cultivation reaches 
its greatest extent. The nuts are planted 
merely by dropping year-old nuts at in- 
tervals of a few feet in ponds or alone 
the edge of a canal, where the plants can 
be fenced in by bamboo poles and a net 
work of bamboo. 
“They are planted annually in the 
Spring, growing best in five or six feet 
of water. The nuts take root quickly and 
send a shoot to the surface in an incred- 
ibly short time. The nuts are formed 
among the leaves of the plant on the sur- 
face and are gathered in boats. A water 
chestnut field of this sort resembles in ap- 
pearance a field of water hyacinth in the 
rivers of the Southern United States. The 
nut plant, in fact, grows under similar 
conditions to the water hyacinth, and it 
is probable that the nut could be culti- 
vated in the United States where the 
hyacinth plant now grows. 
“The Chinese people use these nuts in 
various ways. They are to be had roasted 
of street venders in Central China cities; 
they are eaten boiled, tasting somewhat 
like a Jerusalem artichoke; they are made 
into various pastries and puddings, some 
of the latter being very popular among 
foreigners in China.” 
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Daytime or Evenings 
your porch can be made the coolest, cozi- 
est and most comfortable place you know. 
It can be kept in deepest shade—cutting off 
the hot rays of the sun—and yet allowing 
the air to get in. 
At night also you can use the porch to 
better advantage. 
There you can receive guests, read, write, 
sew, take a nap in absolute privacy, if your 
porch is equipped with 
Vudor 
Porch Shades 
They shut off the gaze of passersby yet always al- 
lowing you to look out without trouble. Wudor Shades 
are made of toughest wood, bound with unbreakable 
twine—like that used by fishermen for nets—stand 
all weather and last seasons where the imitations last 
only weeks. So look for the Vudor name-plate on 
every shade you buy and beware of flimsy substitutes. 
You can equip your porch at a cost from $3.50 up- 
wards. 
How to Make Your Porch Cozy and Comfortable 
It is told in our New Book which you will want to read, handsomely 
illustrated and colored. A postcard brings it. Don’t miss getting it early. 
We have no branch factory and no one is 
licensed to use our patents. ali ey are not 
Vudor Porch Shades unless they bear the 
Vudor metal trade mark. 
HOUGH SHADE CORPORATION 
240 Mill Street, Janesville, Wisconsin 
(We also make Vudor Re-enforced Hammocks. They have re-enforced 
bed centers and special end cords which double 
their life and usefulness.) 
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