The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-10-04

nea>sS everything being done by steam
port the ore to the various ports on
Lake Michigan and Lake Erie are
loaded in from two to four hours.
This is not new country, as there
was railroad there in 1868. but the
resources are practically ineXhaustible
ever new.
Doubling Force of Windmill.
A feature of fairs this year has
been a windmill with two sets of fans,
ON the theory that thus wind is made
to create more than twice as much
power as ever before. The inventor
remarks when we say double pow
err we are modest, for as a matter OF
fact when the wind passes through the
first wheel it becomes concentrated
and so directed as to hit the properly
set fans of theSsecond wheel with such
force as to create more power than is
developed by the first wheel. Conse-
quently when we say double power
we do not reach the actual power with
in 10 per cent"
It is amazing the many uses that a
farmer can put the wind to, with the
aid of proper appliances. Pumping
water is only one of the uses. 1t is
said there is no reason why a farmer
may not harness his windmill in a
way to cut feed, saw wood, make
cider, lift grain, churn butter, wash
and wiring clothes, shear sheep, clean
or clip horses, spray fruit, grind tools,
shred corn and husk it, separate milk,
ETC.; in fact, do any work up to six
or eight horse power This may all be
true, but one rarely sees many of these
things done, as he passes through the
country The gasoline engine is tax
ing the place Of the windmill in
many places, yet the wind is natures
free power and will always be used.
By the way, it is appalling, the
waste of power in the waves Of the
sea and of big lakes. There are bill
ions Of horsepower wasted every day
and this "giant intellect of man" we
hear SO much about is not equal to
converting it into even the available
strength to propel a ferryboat.
Biggest Refrigerator in the World.
During such a hot summer the keep
ing of ice has been a warm subject
with many. Campers, cottagers and
others have always wrestled with the
subject, and where the supply is in
frequent, it is a critical one. To low
er ones milk and eggs into the lake
by a long string is one way, for those
who fancy it, while many have built
icehouses into the side of a hill, the
upper half perhaps protected by
wooden roof. The success Of the ice
house depends largely on the volume
slower in proportion than a small one.
Ice needs air, without it it will rot;
but the matter Of packing it Tin saw
dust preferred calls for intelligence
a cottager who had tried various de-
vices thinks he has solved the diff
Guilty by digging a hole six feet deep
Drainage was secured by layer of
sand on the bottom, and above this
rocks and then a flooring of posts, the
drip readily finding it's way between
them. The hole is five feet long and
perhaps three wide; posts are set at
the corners and the sides boarded, the
object being to keep the earth from
caving in. The top is protected from
rain by tightly-made, slOping top.
The hole is filled with ice, perhaps 600
or 800 pounds, and though opened ey-
cry other day for a piece to be trans
ferred to the kitchen refrigerator. it
carried ice for two weeks in the fear
fully hot weather Of last summer. In
ordinary weather, and with the use of
saWdust, it is likely ice will keep three
and perhaps four weeks if not earlier
consumed by the family.
Fond du Lac man is building
large. refrigerators and is at work OIL
what he says is the largest one in the
worlds by % feet in size. The first
story will be 10 feet high, and the
second story IS to 20 feet high. and
it will have a capacity for 300 tons
of ice.
Feeding Cattle Through Winter.
An instance of the kind of work
experimental stations do at the west
ern colleges is shown by a recent
Kansas bulletin. The professors saw
that feed is to be rare this fall and
winter, and set about to see what could
be done with a cheap substitute
wheat straw with added amount of
ground wheat Says the bulletin:
Three dry COWS, two 2-year-old heif-
ers and three calves were selected for
this test. The experiment began Aug.