Farm Mechanics 
By Robert H. Smith 
Changing Hitch on Tractor 
I have a small tractor that runs with 
<mc wheel in the furrow when plowing, 
which causes if to cant over. Is there 
any way that I could hitch it so that I 
could run both wheels on the landside, 
without causing too much side draft? 
Wrighteville, Pn. s. h. 
It would not he advisable to change the 
draw-bar hitch of your machine. It. has 
been designed to run one wheel in the 
furrow bottom while pulling two bottoms, 
and consequently has the tread of the 
proper width to give center draft when 
used as designed. If the hitch is changed 
to any extent, it will result in some side 
draft, making the tractor harder to 
handle, lessening its available pud and 
causing greater wear. Furthermore, 
shifting the hitch with some light trac¬ 
tors is accompanied by danger to the 
operator, the tractor tending to raise up 
in front if the motor is speeded and the 
clutch let in too suddenly in a hard pull 
if the hitch to the load has been raised in 
making the change. 
You need never again have trouble, and lose your time and temper with a 
riveted-up mower knife. You can now have 
Attic Tank for Water Supply 
I would like some information on a 
water supply system. Is it practical to 
use an overhead system, that is, by plac¬ 
ing a storage tank in the upper corner 
of ilie house, so the cave, spout will run 
into it, and then pipe to sink and to 
places of usage? Would it sour and not 
he fit for use? Is there any way to keep 
it front souring? \v. m. 
The chief objection to this plan is the 
weight of the water that might be sup¬ 
ported by the house frame. Unless built 
with this end in view, a house frame is 
not strong enough to support a cistern 
properly with sufficient capacity to carry 
water for household needs over the dry 
Summer months. Settling or distortion 
will take place, with consequent leakage, 
and leakage is disastrous in the attic of 
a house. 
If it is desired to use an overhead 
gravity system, it is better to place the 
cistern either in the cellar or in the 
ground out of doors, where it will be 
protected from freezing in the Winter 
and kept cool in the Summer and also 
out of the way. A small gravity tank 
holding a few barrels can be put in the 
attic and connected by pipe and a force 
pump with the outdoor cistern. A little 
pumping on the part of the men of the 
family at night or in the morning will 
then put a supply of water in the attic 
sufficient for the day's needs. This can 
be done for ahout the same price as the 
overhead tank suggested, and will not 
cause the house to sag or take up valu¬ 
able space in the upper rooms, for it is 
of course necessary in the method sug¬ 
gested by you to place the cistern lmv 
enough so that the roof water will flow- 
in ro it by gravity. 
You save time —time that’s worth more 
than money—when you are hurrying to 
finish before the weather changes. You 
can’t afford to keep on having to change 
knives, or to go back to the barn to rivet 
up a new blade. 
It has instantly renewable blades. Just 
remove a small key and the blade drops 
out. Put in the new blade and replace 
the key and the blade is in, tighter than 
if it were riveted. It is double-locked 
and must stay rigidly fixed until 
you unlock it. And a dozen 
blades can easily be 
I . carried in the tool- 
box, right on 
the machine. 
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You replace a 
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minute’s time — and go 
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You don’t have to take the 
A-M-F Sickle Bar out of the machine 
Ram for Water Supply 
Will a hydraulic vain operate under the 
following conditions? A good spring on 
the farm flows four gallons per minute. 
Tty placing the nun 150 ft. from the 
spring a full of 5 ft. can he obtained. 
The water is to lie forced up to the house, 
which is 30 ft. higher than the rum would 
be. .m,i JT2 ft. away from it. Could the 
efficiency of the rum be increased by 
connecting a standpipe on the pipe from 
spring to ram, about 2T> ft. from ram'.' 
If you think the ram would work. 1 
wotlld like to install one. j. w. n. 
Under the conditions that you outline 
there should he no difficulty in putting 
in n ram to supply household needs. A 
small ram, using this water ns a motive 
power, should deliver 12 to 1." barrels of 
it at the house daily. The stream 
pumped is small, but the ram is 
in constant operation 2-1 hours per day, 
and therefore pumps a considerable 
quantity of water. To order that this 
water may be fresh, sweet and cold for 
drinking purposes, a small tank holding 
a half barrel or so is put in the attic of 
the house and the delivery pipe from the 
ram led to it. At the top tin overflow 
pipe is arranged which carries the excess 
water to a tank at the barn. The service 
pipes of ilie house are connected to the 
small tank, and in this way a supply of 
fresh water is always at hand, while the 
stable is supplied from the overflow. 
Your general plan of installing the rain 
is right. There are two ways of obtain¬ 
ing the desired fall, however; the ram 
may be tint in a pit at the desired dis¬ 
tance from the spring and a drain in¬ 
stalled to carry away the waste water, 
or it can he put in as yon outline by put¬ 
ting in »l standpipe near tin- ram. In 
either case the ram should be protected, 
either by the pil or by a small bouse 
built over it. The standpipe in this ease 
should be about 30 ft from the ram, 
and can easily be made from a barrel set 
at such a level that the surface of the 
water contained by it will he level with 
the spring reservoir, as indicated in the 
cut. The drive pipe leading to the rain 
should be laid at a uniform slope and 
made right, with its upper end well be¬ 
neath the surface of the water and pro¬ 
tected by n strainer fine enough to pre¬ 
vent foreign matter getting into the rum, 
hut with tin area sufficiently large to give 
a water passage larger than the bore of 
the pipe. 
There is an A-M-F Sickle Bar built 
for every make of mowing machine 
on the market. It is only a matter 
of a few minutes to attach one to 
your machine. 
AMERICAN MACHINE & 
FOUNDRY COMPANY 
511 Fifth Ave.. New York, N.Y. 
Please send me your folder describing the 
A-M-F Sickle Bar. Does my dealer 
handle it? 
His name is_ 
American 
Machine & Foundry 
Company 
SI 1 Fifth Avenue. New York, N. Y. 
Your Name 
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