The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-09-01
/ MODEL GEORGIA FORMER.
vhot Genius and Industry Will accomplish.

In late visit to Rockdale county,
being in attendance on a farmers
institute, was Hospitality entertained
by one of Rockdale's small farmers
who with
Little farm well titled.
A little house well filed
A SPLENDID wife well skilled in all
that goes to make a home and a house
hold both comfortable and happy, he
became an object lesson to me in his
wonderful grasp of the situation about
him and his utilization of the simple
forces of nature, to equip his home
with devices that city people pay big
money to secure.
There is little clear running branch
within a half mile of his dwelling.
The small streamlet is lucid and rapid
as is the rule in that land of pure
water and small Independent farmers.
He dug a ditch around a hill until
he was able to conduct the water into
a trough that nearly spanned a mar
row ravine and which gave him
waterfall of or 10 feet. Under this
trough he built an overshot water
wheel, and by pulling a wire up at
his home lets in the water or stops
the wheel. With small cable gear
ed to this overshot waterwheel he
generates electricity, by which he
Eliminates his dwelling, also his lit
tie store house across the big road
He uses the regular electric bulbs.
common to electric plants. His
house is lighted throughout by cleo
tricity.
On his rear piazza he had fine
well of water, cold and delicious,
but the water had to be drawn up
ward by a rope and windlass.
My friend, this native Georgia
genius, set to work and built tall
substantial framework, such as wind
mills are placed upon, hut he simply
put a tank on the elevation and forced
up the well water by the electric
power. He did the whole business
himself, and when his motor is at
work he fills the tank, and from the
tank he puts an abundance of clear
water everywhere he needs it. He
has a convenient bath house, with
shower bath and dressing room attach
ed. He has water for his two mules
IN his stable. He has a little drip
fountain for his chickens in the yard.
He can put ON a length of hose and
wash off the floors and piazzas of his
dwelling, spray his front yard grass
and fill wash tubs galore. From his
works down on the branch he can
! even irrigate a field of corn and the
supply is plentiful and free.
BY a skilful arrangement he runs
electric fans in nearly all the rooms
of his little country home. The sleep
ing room for his wife and little girl
is kept perfectly cool on torrid July
nights as can testify.
Another fan makes the ding room
simply delightful. In the kitchen he
placed an electric fan for his wife's
sake because the stove room is gen.
orally place of heat and discomfort
i Not so in Mrs. Goodies kitchen. No
flies can stand around under the cleo
trio fan that circulates over her kitch-
en- table. AS she prepares meals she
| is famed all the time.
: Out of doors the grindstone is run
i by this homemade electricity, ditto
/ the churn. There is no complaint
| here of our common arm-aching,
wearisome churns. Up and-down goes
/ the dasher, moved by the invisible
| electric force, and the butter comes
/ in the cool OF the morning, and soon
goes into swinging bucket that
! is lowered into the well on the piazza,
! and the churn work is over for the
day. No heat, no flies, all cool and
! well done I was DELIGHTED