Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1895-03-29
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UTILIZING THE WIND POWER.
Valuable Functions Performed by Modern
Windmills al Small Cost.


Windmills al Small Cost.
The wind, like tho poor, is always
with Us. In no considerable area in the
United States is there demand for
more wind. 1t is indeed the specially
disagreeable feature of nearly every eli
mate. Tho cold north winds of winter
and the raw winds of March as well
as the parchiny and drying winds
of summer are alike disagreeable if
not destructive. Dut the wind is
everywhere and always source of
power and should be utilized by the
farmer as helping hand. Windmills
are comparatively cheap, and many of
them are very effective. Great improve
ments have been made upon the old
time windmills, and new and posi-
bly, more appropriate nomenclature is
now employed whereby we arc intro
duced to wind engines, "aermotors, "
etc. Still all these improved devices are
windmills.
There is scarcely a farmer in the
country who can really afford to be
without good windmill The uses to
which such machine may be put on
every farm are various and may be
made to yield profit. To be sure, there
will be some days when tho mill can.
not earn its keep through no fault of its
own, but on most farms little atten-
ton from day to day will supplement
the lack of motive power, and enough
work may be done ON breezy days tC
tide over "doldrum" of even several
days at timo. Some day-sOon per-
haps-eloctrical appliances will DO at
tached to the windmill, enabling the
farmer to store power as no now stores
wheat or cider, to be drawn upon for
use whenever convenient. But the wind
mill as it IL at tho present time is suni
ciont for most purposes to which farm
ers wish to apply power thus derived.
Thus writes correspondent of The IT.
rigation Age who adds;
Perhaps one of the most common uses
to which the power of tho wind is ap-
piled is the pumping of water. Raising
water by hand, even from shallow wells,
is very hard work and too slow proc
ess to be thought of ON stock farms or
when required for irrigation on farm,
however small. With good well, how
ever deep, and modern type of wind
mill, water for household purposes,
stock and to some extent for irrigation
may be easily and cheaply raised. But
the pumping of water is only ono of the
valuable functions to be performed by
the windmill AT comparatively small
cost, belts, shafts and gearing may be
provided whereby the power of the wind
may be made to turn the grindstonc,
move tho churn, shell the corn and
grind it both Tor the use of the family
and the stock rs well as to do num-
Der Of other errands, such as elevating
grain and baled hay for storage III the
barn. Cheese and cider presses may be
operated by the same power, and fodder
and wood cut also In fact, the profit
able uses of the windmill are many, and
as users of them acquire more expert
enCe the long list of chores for the wind
mill will he heightened, while that for
the boys on the farm may be shortened
i'll proportion. In brief, the modern
windmill affords the farmer the read
lest ana cheapest means to apply the
enormous force of the wind to useful
purposes about the farmstead. 1t is an
easy way to use to hest advantage !.
waste product which costs nothing to
produce, ana which may nearly always
be relied upon to ease the farmers toll
as well as that of his family, while add
ing "a hundred hitherto unknown COM
forts not only to the farmer and his
household, but to his hocks and herds