TAvar, 1900.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 265, 
An account is also given of the construction and usefulness of a mill 
qvcted by the proprietor of a nursery garden, and is thus illustrated and 
tescribed';— 
A Temarkable little Jumbo, which cost but 1°50 dollars (6s. 8d.), yet is pumped sufficient water 
inigate and Bava tite garden truck, the strawberry patch, and the small fruit during the most. 
i ys Season of drought ever recorded in Nebraska. Box, 3 feet wide, 9 feet long, 6 feet high. 
“ Bht fans 3 feet wide by 44 feet long, supported on a gas-pipe axis. 
This mill reverses the ordinary proportions, in that it is narrow and tall. 
‘ Proportions are—height, 10 feet; width, 3 feet. Box, 3 feet wide, 9 feet 
"ng, 6 feet high. The pump stood about 5 or 6 feet from the mill, and 
| m gjmected with it by a lever in the ratio of 5 or 6 to 1, which gave it 
vantace, ; 
. When visited, a fair wind—probably a ten-mile wind—was blowing, and it 
ay humping vigorously, and continued to work with undiminished force after 
at jy ttional load of 150 Ib. more was added to the pump rod. Means were not 
a nd for the measurement of its full efficiency, which Mr. Brown estimated. 
| a US by saying that the profits from that small mill, during the three distressing. 
| “ons of drought, probably exceeded that of the place. 
T 
bt th he above diagram shows the way in which the arms and vanes are attached 
| “© Spindle, and the construction of some other portion of the machine. 
Uj, 2e8e home-made mills are not only used for pumping, but they can be 
Sed in doing other work on the farm effected by motive power, and for which 
