The Dickinson press., 1910-11-26


him on an average of twenty five cents
q week for gasoline and five cents for
other expenses. The engine is equipped
with Magneto, and his wife starts it
whenever she needs power: AS the
engine is housed. it can be started with
the thermometer registering twenty de-
grees below zero by cranking two or
three times. One farmer, after perfect
ing his equipment so that his gasoline
engine did all the washing, churning,
running the separator, and the sewing
machine and pump. reports that zone
day when got into the house found it
busy rocking the cradle. What do you
know about that for woman's inven-
tion?
For irrigation purposes the gasoline
engine has proved itself uesful in hun
dreds of instances, and on small fruit
farms it has become almost indispens.
able It is used for operating spraying
pumps and devices. In many instances
the engine, which does the churning,
grinding and corn shelline, works over
time to light the house and barn at
night. 1t is harnessed 10 small dyna-
NOES. and electricity is distributed to
all parts of the house and barn for
illumination. On dairy farms of the
East the gasoline engine has entered as
factor for efficiency and economy.
GASOLINE AND STEAM
One dairy farm in New York state is
equipped with twelve-horse-po power
portable engine which operates at
different times or in tandem four-rolI
mounted husker. grinder. shelter, a
separator, belted pump jack, feed
cooker. and very neat and clean wash
ing outfit for cans, pals and bottlea
Another dairyman owned a herd of
twenty five Holstein cows, and as he
found it difficult to get the hired men to
milk these regularly and efficiently, he
bought small gasoline engine and a
milking machine. The engine and
vacuum-pump were placed in small
room near the COW barn. and the cows
are now milked at less expense and in
less than q third of the time required
when he depended upon the uncertain
hired men.
One feature of the question worthy of
special note is that boys on the farm
can do work that was formerly considered
fit only for strong men. A boy of four
teen can belt up the engine to any
number of machines and start it going.
Even the farmer wife welcomes it with
open arms. with its possibility Of
totally eliminating the hardwork Of
washing clothes and dishes and Of
operating the sewing machine and
churn.
On the big farms Of the West the uses
Of steam years ago changed conditions
from what they were, but the steam
tractor and the big stationery steam
engines work under great disadvantages
in regions where coal is high priced
and difficult to get at that. and where
the water supply for the boilers in the
field iss an ever-perplexing problem.
The gasoline engine using very port
able fuel saves enormously on this
end.
On the small farm it has no rival !;
in fact it occupies unique field Of its
own, steadily Lisplacina the horse, the
hired man. and the farmer own hands:
It makes life easier and pleasanter for
all. and increases the farmer s output
and chances Of profit. Under ordinary
conditions it enables a farmer to culti-II
vate fifty-acre farm as efficient and;
econoically as he could thirty of forty
sacfes under the old regime. The house.
wife and the children profit by the
change. and draw from the experience
q new sense Of Independence and dig
nifty. CoIliers Weekly. November, H..
1910. II !. sssi