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ON A TOWER LIKE THIS 
tecture. 
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The housing for the windmill 
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A. J. CORCORAN, Inc. 
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IS THE CORCORAN IDEA 
(Based on 40 years’ experience) 
The place for the Tank is on a tower, not in the 
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SIX REASONS 
(1) Fire protection without fail from 
the tank placed high on a tower. 
(2) No chance of flooding the whole 
house in case of accident. 
(3) Two tanks on one tower (see il¬ 
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lower for the garden. 
(4) Any size tank possible on a tower 
and the water supply can never fail. 
(5) No extra foundations and beam¬ 
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(6) Both tank and tower built to har¬ 
monize with the surrounding archi- 
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abnormally high, but unless the nature of 
the soil and climate, the careful, intensive 
culture given to the crop, and the selec¬ 
tion of seed, fighting of insects, and the 
cost of fertilizing, are all considered the 
reports of the wonderful crops will prove 
a snare and delusion instead of an intelli¬ 
gent incentive to better work. Farming 
is a business, and those who have suc¬ 
ceeded in it are usually men who apply as 
much talent and progressive work to it 
as a merchant does to his business in the 
city. Ihere is the “strenuous life” on the 
farm as well as in the city, but it is differ¬ 
ent in character rather than in degree. 
I he editor of an agricultural weekly re¬ 
cently took a dinner at a select restaurant 
in New York, and while waiting to be 
served made a critical examination of the 
prices charged for the different fruits and 
vegetables. He figured out that at the 
printed rates on the menu card the fruits 
and vegetables that an ordinary farmer’s 
family of six would consume at a meal 
would cost between $15 and $18. Carry¬ 
ing the estimates further he discovered 
that if the farmer sold all his fruits and 
vegetables at the same price charged the 
patrons of the restaurant he could easily 
receive in gross receipts from $20,000 to 
$25,000 per acre. 
I hus we find an exaggerated example 
of what paper crop profits could be made 
to show. It may not be more absurd to 
reason this way than for many owners of 
stocks and bonds to figure up their im¬ 
aginary paper profits, but for the sake of 
the beginner in farming it is highly un¬ 
desirable that any such misleading sta¬ 
tistics should be taken without their 
proper qualifications. If the exodus from 
our cities to the country is based upon such 
ideas of paper profits there will shortly 
follow more farm foreclosures than those 
which made Kansas famous a dozen years 
ago. There will also be a returning tide 
within a few years of sadder and wiser 
men. Enthusiasm in farming is highly 
desirable, but not when it dethrones rea¬ 
son and common sense. Every time there 
is published a report of enormous rates of 
profits per acre in fruits or vegetables 
hundreds, and possibly thousands, figure 
out the result, and multiply it by "ten, 
twenty or a hundred. According to such 
arithmetic there seems no earthly reason 
why the owner of ten or twenty acres 
should not become independently wealthy 
within a few years. 
While there is no Eldorado in farming 
there is a good opportunity for a man to 
make a living and lay something aside 
each year. There is no easy road to suc¬ 
cess in cultivating the soil or in running 
a ranch, but there is a certainty of suc¬ 
cess where intelligent and persistent hard 
work is exchanged for it. Modern science 
has revolutionized farming and gardening, 
but it has not made it a fit occupation for 
the fool. It has rather raised it up to the 
standard where men of ideas and pro¬ 
gressive energy can meet it half way and 
find pleasure and profit in winning out. 
Nature is a hard task-master until you 
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