Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-16
FARMERS LACK
WATER FOR STOCK
Windmills Stand Idle in the
Calm While Farmers
Pump by Hand
MANY BUY GAS ENGINES
MANY BUY GAS ENGINES
Prominent Marshall County Farmer
Predicts Windmill Must Go and Gas
Engines Take Their Place - What
One Farmer Does With An O. X.
Lennox Gas Engine.

Farmers dependent upon windmilis
have for the past two weeks been up
against scarcity of water for stock
or the back breaking and expensive
system of pumping by hand" Com
plant is general from farms where the
water supply required is large and the
most progressive farmers are turning
from the uncertain windmill to the GER
tainty Of the gasoline engine. To il
lustrate: Last Saturday by telephone
and in person eight farmers bought
pumping engines Of the Lennox Ma
chine Company. Orders by mail and
wire are pouring into the office, giving
evidence that the need and demand Is
not confined to one locality.
A prominent Marshall county farm
err predicts the abolition of the wind
mill. Said he: THE gasoline engine
will soon supercede the windmill on ali
up to- date farms. Its cost is little II
any greater and 1t lasts practically
forever. A man doesn't have to put his
life in danger to oil it. 1t doesn't blow
down every time little wind CROSSES
the country 1t doesn't jerk and ham
mer a pump to atoms. My o. Is. two
horse power Lennox engine will do any
thing hired man does except pillow
corn and chew tobacco. 1t pumps the
water, all I've got to do is start it and
60 away and leave it. 1t ticks away
like watch until come back to stop
it."
90 ~ tf,c q cfio syNyi11 "
he continued, sit runs my farm shop
machinery from the grindstone up. l
save good many dollars with it on
woodwork and blacksmith bills. l can
drill hole in a minute thru piece
of iron or steel. figure that ! save
at least $50 with 1t on repairs and tim
ker jobs. I saw wood with 1t. | sep
arate all the milk with it. There's a
governor pulley on it that runs the
milk separator at the required speed,
no matter how slow or fast the engine
is running. The pulley can be put on
the engine on the line shaft or the
separator whichever is handiest. Say,
the old woman always churns with 1t.
Merritt Greene, the big farmer west
of town, showed me his new thrashing
machine separator that he intends to
run from his LennoX gas engine in his
shop and do all his own threshing. His
engine is 30-horse. / can't thresh with
mine, but if there is anything else that
a two to six horse power Lennox gas
engine can't do about the farm, don't
know of it, Last year the boys fixed
up an elevator contraption to save put
ting grain into the upper story of the
granary by hand, and now at thresh-
ing time there's fight over who'll haul
grain away from the machine. All
they do is to dump it and visit while
the little Lennox slows the oats away
upstairs. We grind all our feed, shell
all our corn-Oh, well what's the use
l wouldn't part with that o. K. Lennox
any quicker than would with my wife.
I've never paid repair bill ON it and
the interest on my investment wouldn't
pay a day hand for four days work.
even If / could find day hand But
you want to get good one. and the
Lennox can't be beat for price or use
fulness"
Such is ore successful farmers esti-
mate of farm gas engines in general
and the Lennox in particular. The
LGLlilOA MACHINE WIN PONY SsAAA y SsSAS
size engine in stock, from the two-!
horse -power pumper, which actually
develops about three horsepower. to
the 3O-horse- power engine fitted for
herculean tasks.
Perhaps the most popular are their.
Lennox Standard Horizontally from 4 to-
3o-horse-power (rnay be mounted on
trucks if desired): the Lennox Verti-i
cal and. 3-horse- power. for printing
offices, blacksmith shops, farms. ETC.;
the Lennox Vertical Pumping Engine
and the Lennox o. X. 2 and ~ -horse-
power for cream separators, churns,
printing presses, etc, 400-lb. engine
that has no equal. No farmer or other
in need of power should fail to investi-
gate the merits of the Lennox. AS the
farmer said, it will do everything but
plow corn and chew tobacco.
STEWART WINS A PLACE.