Mechanical Powers for the Farm or Workshop

By Staff
Published on September 1, 1998
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Frick & Co.'s portable steam engine.

Reprint from American Agriculturist, July 1875

It is an accepted principle in the use of powers that one should
never employ a man when he can use a horse, and never use a horse
when the work can be done by either wind, water, or steam. For farm
or rural labor the three powers last named may be very extensively
applied with profit. Wind and water are only applicable for

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