The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-10-06
Some of c. j. Norton's Ideas.

Some of c. j. NOrtOn's Ideas.
Clarence Norton, of Marmaton
township, was in this office the other !
day, chiefly to announce that he had |
on the day before become the her |
of daughter, upon which event he
is certainly entitled to copgratula.
tions. Incidentally, however, he sug-
gested in the hfteen minutes he re.
manned here more new ideas than
most other men would have been able
to dig up I'm week. Here are some
of them, which are put as nearly in
his words rs memory will permit.
"The fact that the sulphur fumes
from the smelters killed all by
vegetation set me to thinking one
day. | reasoned that if these fumes
would kill vegetation that we didn't
want killed they would also kill veRe-
tation that we did want killed. Ac.
cordingly / tried the scheme i'm my
potato cellar the next winter. The
result was that not potato sprouted
all winter, aud when bro uRht them
into lola the next spring the merch
ants all declared they were in better
condition THAI the potatoes that came
from the north. | am convinced that
by this means potatoes can be kept
over an entire year, which nobody
has ever yet been able to do. | wrote
an account of the process to the Rurai
New Yorker, and the editor of that
paper wrote me that it was the most
important discovery in the interest
of the farmers that had been made in
recent years
81 read what you said in the REG
IsTER ABOUT the way Mr.. Tredway
pumps his water by means of the
pressure of gas. If gas will force
water out of WELL why will not con-
densed air do the same thing? 1t
seems to me that by means of an air
pump at the top of the ground water
could be pushed out Of a well aud to
any distance much more easily than
ii could be pulled by suction, Just on
the same principle as we are all fam
iliar with i'm the common orchard
sprayer. a windmill could work the
pump, only in that case you would
have to have cylinder for storing
the condensed air, instead of the tank
which we now have for storing the
water"
"By the way | have the air pump
of my sprayer rugged to the hind
wheels of my wagon, so that by the
time | have driven to the orchard |
have air enough to spray dozen
trees. And the supply Is kept up by
driving from tree to tree, so | don't
have anything to do but turn the stop
aud hold the nozzle"
~ might say also that l have a
machine rugged up by which the boy
and myself can cut and bind ten acres
of Germ day. And then have "a
derrick rugged on my wagon by
which we can load this corn, a shock
at time. And then l have a mach
inc WI ich cuts it all up fine so tn at
the stock eat every scrap it,"
"Why don't some ofyou people who
can afford it provide yourselves with
"A cool air current for summer use?
Easy enough. Run an iron pipe up
into the air thirty or forty feet, an d
put hood at the end. fixed on a
swivle 50 that it will always catch
the wind, Have the bottom of your
iron pipe connected with n tube which
is coiled at the bottom of your we'll.
For the matter of that the coil in the
we'll is unnecessary. A pipe buried
five or six feet in the ground would
cool the air just the same 1t would
be just as easy to supply the people
with cold air as it is to supply them
with the gas, with the added advant.
age that the raw material would cost
nothing and there would be no dan.
ger of the supply giving out. And
the same company could furnish hot
air in winter by passing the all
through furnace instead of through
: the cooling coils,n
OF course Mr.. Norton did not talk
all this off, just as it stands written
here. But Zone word brought on
anothern and this ia the sHbstanc Of
what he said. Isn't it worth think,
ing about?