SMALLEST WORKING GAS ENGINE EXHIBITED AT SHOW IN TOLEDO.

The little engine the three men in the picture are looking at is an exact reproduction to onefourth scale of the 24-horse power engine made by the United Engine Company of Lansing, Michigan. The man in the middle of the picture is Mr. T. C. Menges. He not only did all the machine work but made the patterns as well. This little engine has a stroke of one and one-quarter inches and bore of one inch. It runs on gasoline at a speed of 1,200 r. p. m. and runs as smoothly as any of the larger machines. The compression is seventy-five pounds and the piston which is fitted with delicate piston rings has a clearance of one-thousandth of an inch. This little engine is nine inches long, four and one-half inches high and less than five inches wide. It weighs only five pounds. It is equipped with an adjustable carburetor, a sight feed lubricator, with make and break igniter and hit and miss governor.

GAS ENGINE THAT DEVELOPS ONLY ONE-TWELFTH OF A HORSE POWER.

Four dry cells furnish the ignition current. An interesting feature of this diminutive engine is its make and break ignition. It probably operates more rapidly than any other make and break igniter was ever successfully operated before. The three men from left to right are C. L. Sprinkle, president of the United Engine Company, Lansing, Michigan; T. C. Menges, traveling representative of the company at Waterloo, Iowa, and J. G. Finkbeiner, treasurer of the company.

The distance traveled in a single day by the automobiles of the United States is equivalent to one thousand trips around the world-twenty-five million miles a day, or about nine billion miles

a year.

William Penn, in his Charter of Rights, provided that for every five acres of forest cleared one acre should be left in woods. Foresters today maintain that on an average one-fifth of every farm should be in timber.

Loading a 12-horse power Lauson "Frost King" in express car at New Holstein, Wis., consigned to Mr. A. E. Bowen, Lakeville, Massachusetts.

This shipment went forward on first express three hours after order was received by the John Lauson Manufacturing Company.

Note fly wheels crated separately to facilitate handling. Express charges on shipment were seventy-six collars and twenty-five cents. Engine sold by P. R. Zeigler Company, of Boston, Massachusetts.

OLD SILE'S FARM LANDS

The brethren have been wonderfully interested in Old Sile's Northern Wisconsin land offers, during the months of September and October, until about one-half of all has been purchased by readers living in Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas and other states. Sile has received enough inquiries to have sold a million acres of land, and negotiations are pending for about all he has left. In case any of this land remains unsold until the beginning of the new year, the price will in all cases be $25 an acre instead of $20 an acre: Please keep in mind that every advertisement has contained this information, so if you are thinking of buying any of this land, do it now, or have your deal closed before the end of the year.

If you want a home worth when cleared and improved $125 an acre, for $20 an acre, buy it now and clear and improve it yourself. If you doubt the facts claimed for this land and what it will raise, send for the proofs. Send $1.00 an acre to bind the bargain and whatever amount you want, if not sold, will be reserved until you come and examine it, and if not as advertised your money will be refunded. Six years ago Sile drove a team over a trail to his land; the other day he drove two automobile loads of buyers to the land at twenty miles an hour most of the way. All kinds of crops grown, including tobacco, sugar beets, wheat, oats and other grain, and fruit in abundance. Fishing and hunting unsurpassed anywhere. If interested, talk now. OLD SILE'S BARGAIN COUNTER Care Gas Review, WISCONSIN

MADISON, TERMS: $1 an acre down, ten years on the balance, or $19 an acre spot cash.

A HOME BUILT TRACTOR.

R. C. COLES.

If you have a little room in your busy magazine and think it worth printing I will detail the design and construction of a little gas tractor for eastern farming.

I claim no originality whatever as the machine I built was for experimental purposes, to determine whether a tractor for the small, stony and somewhat hilly New York farms should be de

RIGHT SIDE VIEW OF TRACTOR FOR EASTERN FARMS DESIGNED AND BUILT BY R. J. COLES OF FULTON, N. Y. signed to draw independent implements from the draw bar, as in large engine practice, or to have tractor implements built to operate as a unit machine. I wish to term the machine home built but the wheels, axles, frame and gears were built in the shops of the Electric Wheel Company of Quincy, Illinois, according to the specifications and drawings of the writer. No home shop has the machinery and facilities for building these parts. In figuring out the design I first headed a sheet of paper thus:

Weight, complete with fuel tanks filled ready for the field, four thousand pounds. The result is as follows: The engine chosen was a four cycle, four cylinder vertical of 16-nominal and 35-brake horse power. Ignition, Swiss high tension magneto. The water cooling system is of the rotary pump circulation type in connection with a twenty gallon open screen tower cooling tank. The drive wheels are forty-eight inches in diameter with eighteen inch rims. The rims and spokes are steel set in gray iron hubs, each hub providing eighteen and cne-half inches length of bearing, on the three inch diameter rear axle. The front wheels are of the same construction, being thirty-four inches in diameter with ten inch rims and a one inch square band shrunk around the center. The front axle is all steel of the built-up type with independent axle spindles. This axle carries the forward end of the frame on a rocker joint, giving a three point suspension to the frame. The frame is of Carnegie channel steel,

6x1.9 inch section, weighing eight pounds to the foot; the cross sections and tie pieces are channel section and the entire frame is hot riveted, making a light and very rigid unit.

As will be noted in the photographs, the engine is mounted lengthwise of the frame. Back of the engine comes the external cone clutch in connection with a three speed forward and one reverse selective, sliding gear transmission. The engine, together with clutch and transmission case, is mounted upon a medium hardwood subframe.

This construction may look peculiar to some of the readers so I will leave it to them to guess the reason after I give them a key to it. The tractor has two springs and the engine base is of aluminum while the transmission case is of light malleable iron. Back of the transmission case is the first cross shaft driven by bevel gears, ratio of gears 2-1. The first cross shaft drives the differential cross shaft by a spur pinion gear to the master gear on differential, gear ratio 4-1. The differential is of the bevel gear type entirely enclosed and running in oil. The drive to rear wheels is by spur pinions to the bull gears mounted on the rear wheels. These gears are braced to the wheel rims, taking all driving strain off of spokes and hubs. All gears are of cast steel while the two bevel gears which have a fairly high rotative speed have cut teeth and operate in an oil bath.

The sliding gears are, of course, enclosed and run in oil. The speeds of the tractor are: high gear, three and six-tenths miles per hour; second gear, two miles per hour; first gear, one mile per hour. The clutch and speed or gear shifting

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POSITIONS WANTED.

WANTED-Position by gas engine manufacturer with a successful record for economical factory management and the development of successful sales and business organization. Has a wide acquaintance with the trade and can give best of references as to character and business ability. Address XY, care Gas Review, Madison, Wis. Please mention Gas Review when writing.

FOR SALE.

FOR SALE -32-H. P. Fairbanks-Morse gasoline engine. Peter Quentin, Fond du Lac, Wis.

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FOR SALE-7-H. P. traction. Has the 12-H. P. Ellis engine. Price $450. Box 241, Hartford, So. Dak. Please mention Gas Review when writing.

FOR SALE-Engine lathe, ten inch swing. Box 63,
Britt, Iowa.
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FOR SALE-Five bottom P. & O. plow, in good shape. Turned 150 acres. $250. V. R. Snow, Sibley, Iowa. Please mention Gas Review when writing.

FOR SALE-Emery wheel stands and rip-saw mandrels. Send for circulars. Chas. A. Henry, Eden, N. Y. Please mention Gas Review when writing.

FOR SALE-LaCrosse three-bottom, fourteen inch selflift plow. Plowed twenty-five acres. Price $75. D. S. Coggins, Hopedale, Ills.

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FOR SALE-Mounted sawing rig. Foos 4-H. P. engine. Appleton saw. James H. Beattie, 2137 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C.

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FOR SALE-One Galloway 6-H. P. Price $60. Callahan 10-H. P. Price $150. Oscar Hanson, Hartford, So. Dak.

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FOR SALE-1911 E. M. F. five passenger touring car,
good condition, four good tires. Price $525. Address
R. B. Miller, 420 Russell Walk, Madison, Wis.
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FOR SALE-Runabout automobile with top complete; touring car; sulky plow; motion picture outfit. O. F. Hammel, Coopersburg, Pa.

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FOR SALE-New 35-H. P. motors, 5x6, four cylinder, magnetos and governors. $325. Iron Works, Hartford, So. Dak.

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FOR SALE-Big Bargain. One 21⁄2-H. P. U. M. A. hopper cooled engine; brand new. Price only $29. For quick sale. Jack Munday, Lansing, Mich.

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FOR SALE-My 22-II. P. Jackson roadster, equipped with top, glass front, extra tire, set of tools, pump and jack. This car is in first-class running order. Price $125 if taken at once. Address Lock Box 42, Fox Lake, Wis. Please mention Gas Review when writing.

FOR SALE-Twenty acres of land in Christian Colony at Hall City. Florida. Lies close in. Will sell for $750, remaining lands being sold at $60 per acre. Foreman Bros., Corning, Calif.

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FOR SALE-One No. 20 Robinson attrition feed mill. capacity one bag per minute, with all shafting, cob crusher, elevators complete. Price $225. Cost new. $500. This mill run sixteen months. A bargain for some one interested in custom grinding. A 20-H. P. traction or 40-H. P. stationary, either steam or gasoline, will run it fine. Also have a 40-H. P. stationary gasoline engine which I will sell at $400. Cost terms reasonable. Address Frank A. Albrecht, Watertown, Wis.

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FOR SALE-Four hundred and eighty acres of the best farming land, when cleared, in northern Wisconsin. Lies nine miles east of Medford, the county seat. Public road within half mile of tract. Partly cut over years ago, but plenty of timber left to pay for land. Would not consider dividing this tract at present. Price $25 an acre. If taken before January 1, 1915, $20 an acre, half cash, balance ten years' time if desired, six per cent interest. If interested, write Chester L. Allen, Frankfort, Indiana, or B. B. Clarke, Madison, Wis.

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