Show HOME INDUSTRY it seems that our remarks in the agricultural columns of the NEWS of last week under the heading of agricultural science and art arvi produced aa am affirmative vibration among some of our most experienced and practical men ONE OF THE MECHANICS 22 a gentleman of acknowledged 0 ed skill in mechanism ventilates the subject thus the windmill as a moter has been used fro from in very early times in englard and on th the e continent of europe and for driving flour mills and raisin raising water for irrl irrigation atlon aaion and drainage has V given giyen lyen iven a fair amount of wor work k especially especial ly conom considering the proverbial uncertainty of the impelling power the dutch appear to hav been the first to avail themselves of it to tg ang any great extent for ai draining their low country count ries riis s and in some parts of rn england land til till within 4 a few years numbers of them might be sten sen in every direction raising the water vater f fromme rome main drains into channels at a higher lead they have sow been mostly superseded by b large steam engines each capable of doing the work of from twenty to thirty of oz theold the old nills as more economical because more ril Til tillable reliable lable lible especially as in the countries mentioned fumi mel is cheap and land valuable for light powers the style of nill in ingeni gen ger eral we use for pum pumping p ing ac on the railroads in th the eStates states would b be e t the he best adapted adap to the wants of this country while for tot heavier work the old country st style le would probably ably be foune found the most moat serviceable servie eale eaje the principal difference being that the former is goe generally rally raily built as a li light liht ht wheel of moderate siz size eull euli fuli full of vanes wille wilie while the latter has from couro six arms of a large sweep with a number of iball slats on each forming the sail the ars aras in some cases being as much as seventy feet across and driving four run of stones with mith their accompanying machinery As ari arl a apparatus for raisin raising water wilater in laree large large quantities to a moderate libit height 7 for im gatin and draina drainage L e the scoop wheel ia is generally conceded to tie ale se the best requiring little or na attention with but little near vear rear and tear and no loose pieces to get out cf of orber while from the entire absence of frictional fric tonal tonai surfaces ur faces in contact with the water it fa is not liable to be injured by the water being foni foul of or sandy water power as we have it P here nere ere is at best scarce and uncertain because from the quan ua n city of water required for ir ration ant and th tb stoppage jn in the winter from frost few mills are capable of working more nan six months in the year with full nd full time the latter difficulty may be almost or entirely overcome by using the turbine wheel which when properly constructed an ani adapted gives from five to ten per than the best beat constructed breast wheel under the same circumstances the power 0 the water of course ia is the same but the taste yaste is less on op this kind of wheel than on tny iny ny otherl while from the higher running velo velocity fity less gearing is required and there is consequently less losa from friction steam power when avail available alie alle and proper properly directed is by far the most economical az and reliable of any motive powe powers being always at coin command mand and capable of bing b ing increased to any amount in the sari san e loc location aion alon the ile steam eng engines ines hower from the subtle nature of the moving fore foro requires more care and attention in designing desi gring and building than any other motor steab eng engines ines may be bought aa at almost any mabine marine shop in the states in appearance the elme sime but with a working difference of from flur to six pounds of coal for the same power the most rn st favorable result for small engine of from four to ten horse power being 0 abou three pounds and a half halt of coal per horse pow r per hour the principal points to be observed are good fitting of the working parts the maximum of strength with the minimum of weigh in all the moving pie cesa cesia correct form and al Ai of the steam valves and a good boier boler which is not therefore the li lightest a haest and scaliest smallest lest iest or the most 1 i expensive there is ill in business which in this territory will at pre present ent pay better or more surely conduce to the er manent advantage of the community thai that a machine shop ai and foundry even with all fie incumbent disadvantages provided that lis ils his under the superintendence er of a compe competent compete jt eing engineer ineer well posted on the present actual improvements in machinery of all kinds and vilo would owe his position to his capabilities ind not aothia hia capa i bili gitles ties to his bis position I 1 iron f founding oun ding especially is always in de mand nand and from a careful calculation of all co conti ngen cles and expense I 1 am confident that thatis if twenty hive five cens pir pound can be ob taine tainia d for castings of aa an average weight it will pay and pay well toia aport pig iron from the states with which air old serap scrap can be mixed and so make a rea ay serviceable metal I 1 would much prefer bi however hw wever ever to have the I 1 iron from the native ore ut from the disastrous failures which hav have hitherto attended our ur past efforts to make lon ion in istah such a consummation is scarcely to be ba anticipated very soon the re apers thrashers thra fee spoken of in the DF DESERET seret NEWS of the lith dinst anda thousand other articles are continually required from a steam edane to a sewing ina machine chine chire as was correctly sliced can be made here and I 1 may go further aid and say without hesitancy that all things ll 11 considered 7 machinery can caa now b be e got up he hee e cheaper than it can be imported as a a we have bayeas as good eclen afi iff top mec hanka hauka a as cap be fould fourd eisei elsei elsewhere there TherO men who have been for years in charge of machine shops in the east and west where brains and the faculty of using them were valued as much at least as the capabilities requisite for darivin driving a yoke of cattle ONE OF THE MECHANICS |