The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-04
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURIST
some Up-to-Date Hints About Cul-
sisation OF the Soil and f!elds
Observation-Disclosures viticulturs and
Eloriculture w.

The Farmers Review takes this oc-
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
oy men that really have faith in what
1ney are selling. In a recent number
OF an Iowa paper we noticed an IN
qu1ry by farmer after well pump
that could be wound up and go for
tWenty-four hours. The paper was un-
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 1t in operation,
When Its promoters first made 1t 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 gravitation, and
get something for nothing. Any stu
dent Of applied mechanics looking at
the machine: wouldacoEdemn it at once.
The principle. Of the machine is to
nave a windlass with great buckets OF
stone as weights hanging over one
SIDE TheseSpf course, pull down, as
DO the weights of an o1d-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 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
I punapin ne fact Is It issonly a diff
ferent way Of applying the force. It
takes a certain expenditure of force to
lit any given weight of water given
distance, and no machine will ever be
invented that can overcome that law
The bulky machin? referred to must
cost considerable, and when obtained
Will be of no more value than COM
mon hand pump. If any of our read
ers want good machine for pumping
he can easily obtain it by putting in a
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 Oh
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, but perhaps
here and there 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.