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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 12, 1921 
The most efficient Tractor in America 
The Bates Steel Mule 
Pre-War Price 
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Mule orders early will have 
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The Bates Steel Mule with its 
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Established 1883 
Dept. I. JOLIET. ILLINOIS 
Farm Power Machinery Co. 
256 Court St.. 
Rochester - New York 
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Farm Mechanics 
Power for Milking Machine 
I have a spring which runs an inch 
stream the year around. It will rise 
over 20 ft. at the barn. If I place a,tank 
that is air-tight. 20 ft. high, and let it 
till, then close the vent, open a 2-in. pipe 
20 ft. below, will the suction run a milk 
ing machine? I have a tank that will 
hold 25 barrels. H. H. v. 
New York. 
The idea is quite ingenious, but, unfor¬ 
tunately. would not work successfully. 
The milking machine is operated by at¬ 
mospheric pressure, the action being se¬ 
cured by partially exhausting the air 
from one side and thus securing a vacuum 
or “suction” as we speak of it. Thin 
vacuum is usually measured by the num¬ 
ber of inches of mercury that it will sup¬ 
port in a tube and a common degree of 
vacuum used and necessary for successful 
milking is one supporting a column of 
mercury from 15 to 17 in. in height. 
Mercury is about 18.(5 times as heavy as 
water, and consequently this degree of 
vacuum would support a column of water 
about 17 ft. in height, leaving but about 
3 ft. to run out as a force to operate the 
milker, provided it could flow out fast 
enough to furnish sufficient power for 
this purpose. Even if the height could 
be secured a tank sufficiently large to 
hold the water required and sufficiently 
strong to resist crushing by atmospheric 
pressure when emptied or rather emptied 
to the extent possible would be expensive, 
probably more so than the pump which 
furnishes a steady, dependable degree of 
vacuum. R- h. s. 
which drove it very fast, but these cracks 
have develop! d very lately. B. S. 
Jaffrey, N. i. 
Very few circular saws of any standard 
make will break unless given undue 
strains caused by crowding work on them 
too heavily, pinching them or running too 
long on one sharpening, so that the saw 
becomes dull. Any cutting tool should 
be kept well up to the 100 per cent mark 
of sharpness. It then goes through the 
wood with the least possible strain on 
itself and requires the least power for 
driving. 
Because of the quantity of wood that 
this saw has cut it would seem that it 
should have required sufficient filing to 
have gotten down into the gullets of the 
teeth, making them square. If such is 
the case the cracking may have started 
from there, otherwise the cracking may 
have started from running and crowding 
when dull and out of condition. In re¬ 
gard to the repair suggested the manu¬ 
facturers report as follows: “To view of 
the fact that the saw referred to contains 
several cracks, one of them 4 in. deep, 
we do not recommend any kind of repairs 
that would put this saw in safe running 
condition again.” R- h. s. 
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Water-supply Problem 
1. I have a well in front of my barn 
where there is a pump. The well.is 36 ft. 
deep and is about 200 ft. from my house. 
How can I get running water in the kitch¬ 
en. and water for bathroom on second 
floor? 2. Can the machine we get to 
handle the water also furnish electric 
power for lights in the house and barn? 
New York. P. i>. 
1. It is not stated whether the house is 
higher or lower than the well; neither is 
the water level in the well given, but it is 
scarcely possible that the pumping plant 
could be located at the house because of 
the chance that the lift would be greater 
than could be handled. Probably the best 
layout would be to build a structure over 
the well to be used as a farm power 
house. If desired it could be utilized as 
a dairy building as well. This building 
could contain a 3 to 4-horsepower gaso¬ 
line engine belted to a line shaft and from 
this line shaft could be driven the pump 
for the water system, a dynamo for the 
lighting system, the vacuum pump for 
the milker and other light machinery too 
numerous to.mention. The roof should 
have a trap door in it directly over the 
pump to permit easy repairs in case of 
trouble. 
Tt. is possible that you could use the 
same pump already^ in place. A force 
pump would be required aud by a system 
of branch piping the water could be dis¬ 
charged either at the house or barn. At 
the bouse end a pressure tank should be 
installed in the cellar and the pipe from 
the pump connected to this. A check 
valve in the line would prevent the water 
from coming back to the pump. If the 
ordinary force pump is used;—the com¬ 
mon farm pump with windmill top and 
three-way cock—a small drainage cock 
should be tapped into the suction pipe be¬ 
low the cylinder and arranged so that it 
can be controlled from the pump above by 
means of an extension handle to admit 
air when necessary to maintain the sup¬ 
ply in tlie pressure tank. Air is general¬ 
ly - absorbed from this and unless replaced 
the tank will not operate well. 
Tf the well water stands at a sufficient 
height—it should not drop farther than 
23 ft. from the curb—it might be pos¬ 
sible to use one of the shallow well hori¬ 
zontal pumps designed for charging pres¬ 
sure tanks which would be more conve¬ 
nient than the use of the pump just de¬ 
scribed. 
2. There are self-contained lighting 
plants that cau be used as a source of 
current for driving small electric pumps, 
hut the layout briefly described when used 
with a generator and storage battery as a 
lighting system seems very practical for 
the average farm. R- n. s. 
Cracked Circular Saw 
Can you advise about a circular wood 
saw cracking? Mine is a 30-in. cordwood 
saw. six years old. that has probably not 
sawed over an average of 15 or 20 cords 
a year. There are four cracks, say about 
4 in. deep. Is it dangerous to use the 
saw in this shape? Is getting the saw 
drilled and riveted a good way to do. oi¬ 
ls a new saw the only remedy? What 
are the probable causes? The gullets 
have never been filed: the saw has been 
set with monkey wreuoh and gauge. Sev¬ 
eral years ago I ran it with auto power, 
Crack in Cement Tank 
I have a new cement water tank that 
has developed a small crack. Can you 
tell me any way to fix this to hold water? 
Franklinville, N. Y. c. n. w. 
A crack of this kind is usually rather 
difficult to mend permanently. It is-usu¬ 
ally caused by lack of reinforcement in 
the concrete to hold it together, when it 
shrinks from a lower temperature, in dry¬ 
ing or from other cause. Tin- concrete 
itself, being weak in pulling strength, 
pulls apart. This place will then remain 
the weakest part of the work, and any re¬ 
pair that is put in is quite likely to be 
pulled apart by subsequent changes in 
temperature. Tf the crack is small 
enough, painting it with a mixture of 
paint, oil and cement may stop the leak, 
but if at all large is likely to prove in¬ 
effective. 
The following is offered as a sugges¬ 
tion only: Clean around the crack thor¬ 
oughly. and, if necessary, use a chisel to 
enlarge it somewhat. When prepared 
clean the dust. out. have the opening dry 
and fill it with hot asphalt or roofing ce¬ 
ment. This should make a somewhat 
plastic filling that will go and come with 
weather changes. A plastic asphalt roof¬ 
ing material that is prepared for putting 
on with a trowel should answer the same 
purpose. If desired, dry cement can be 
sifted into the warm asphalt surface and 
troweled in, which will cover 4he black 
streak and make the work more present¬ 
able. The above makes a good repair for 
a cracked concrete porch floor, and it 
seems that it would work satisfactorily iu 
a case of this kind. R. H. s. 
Electric Lighting Coil 
Is the following in any way practical? 
Is there a coil made of any kind that can 
be used with two 114-volt dry cells or two 
three-volt dry cells to advantage for light¬ 
ing purposes, the same as for ignition 
work? A. c. w. 
The flow of electrical current may be 
compared somewhat to the flow of water 
in a pipe. In the case of the water we 
have two factors, the quantity flowing ex¬ 
pressed in gallons per minute and the 
pressure that it is under expressed in 
pounds per square inch. In- the case of 
the electric current we have the term volt 
to indicate the pressure or tension under 
which the current is flowing, while the 
amount of current flowing is measured in 
amperes. The product of the two. volts 
times amperes, equals watts, or the work 
that the current is capable of doing. A 
current may be stepped up. its pressure 
or voltage increased, but it will be at the 
expense of the amperage: that is. as the 
voltage is increased the amperage will be 
reduced and their product will remain as 
before. 
In some forms of ignition, notably a 
jump spark system, a small current at a 
high tension or voltage is required, and 
this high tension can be secured by the 
use of an induction coil in which a coil 
of vet-v tine insulated wire is wound upon 
a coif of coarser insulated copper wire 
surrounding an iron core. When current 
from a battery is sent through this inner 
or primary circuit and broken quickly a 
high-tension current is induced in the sec¬ 
ondare coil of fine wires. This current 
would not. however, be satisfactory for 
lighting as because of its high voltage the 
lamp filament would not offer sufficient 
resistance to glow. 
I know of no coil that can be used for 
the purpose that you desire, if I under¬ 
stand your question correctly. Rheostats 
are used to put a resistance in a circuit 
in order to cut down a current supply that 
is too great, but as your case is under¬ 
stood you wish something to increase the 
current supply. 
In regard to dry cells, the voltage sel¬ 
dom exceeds 1.5. a large cell having the 
same voltage as the smaller, but the ser 
vice is usually greater. Voltage may he 
increased in a battery by wiring up the 
cells in series, from carbon to ziuc. a bat¬ 
tery of six dry cells, if wired iu this way, 
delivering current under a pressure of 
about nine volts. B. a * 
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