The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-09-16
Frauds on the Farmers.

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The Farmers Review takes this &C.
casion to suggest that farmers will do
well to be constantly on the lookout
for swindles in the form of new and
improved" appliances. In fact, every
fraudulent appliance is always new
and improved" We do not believe
that farmers are any more gullible
than other people. The city people are
constantly being worked by sharpers,
who do not fail to find victims. Per-
haps many of the fraudulent things
that are palmed off on the people are
by men that really have faith in what
they are selling. In a recent number
of an Iowa paper we noticed an in
CURRY by a farmer after well pump
that could be wound up and go for
twenty-four hours. The paper was UNI
able to give the information desired,
but expressed its opinion that the
idea seemed to be good one. On the
strength of that some farmer may in
vest hundreds of dollars in worth
less machine.
The writer OF this article is some
what familiar with the machine in
question, having seen it in operation,
when it's promoters first made it pub
lie, some fifteen years ago. New ma
chimes of this kind may have been
brought out, but they all have the
same fatal defect. They all attempt
to violate the law of gravitatlon, and
get something for nothing. Any stu
dent OF applied mechanics looking at
the machine would condemn it at once.
The principle of the machine Is 70
have a windlass with great buckets of
stone as weights hanging OYER one
side. These, OF course. pull down. as
do the weights of an old-fashioned
clock. The windlass, as it goes round
in response to the pressure by the
weights, pumps the water. The weights
are wound up daily. The deception
comes in the fact that the uninitiated
In mechanics believes he is saving force
by pumping water in this way; he
believes that he can put forth a little
exertion in winding up the weights,
but that the windlass will In turn
pump more water than would the like
force directly applied to the water
pumping. The fact is 1t is only diff
ferent way of applying the force. 1t
takes a certain expenditure Of force to
lift any given weight of water a given
distance, and no machine will ever be
invented that can overcome that law.
The bulky machine referred to must
cost considerable, and when obtained
will be Of no more value than a com
mon hand pump. If any Of our read
ers want good machine for pumping
be can easily obtain it by putting in
wind mill or by buying some Of the
many cheap power engines for sale by
reputable makers.
1t will be noticed by our readers that
such machines are not being put on
the market by reputable manufacture
ers, which would be done were the
principle of its construction correct. In
more than fifteen years of existence no
progress has been made, out perhaps
here and there a machine has been dis
posed Of to some credulous purchaser.
All of this kind of mechanical goods
should be steered clear of by the farm
er. Churns that will make two pounds
of butter from one pound OF butter
fat; pumps that will lift hundreds Of
pounds of water with the expenditure
Of few pounds of force; pepsins that
will greatly increase the butter con-
tents of the cream; peach trees that
are budded on the maple, and the like,
are all good things to let the agent
keep.-Farmers Review.