The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-03-12
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UTILIZING THE WIND POWER.
EaluaeIe Functions Performed by Modern
Wndmills at Small Cost.

Windmills at Small Cost.
The wind, like the poor, is ALWAYS
with US. II no considerable area in tho
United States is there demand for
more wind. 1t is indeed the specially
disagreeable feature of nearly every eli.
mate. The cold north winds of winter
and the raw winds of March ms we'll
as the parching and drying winds
OF summer are alike disagreeable if
not destructive. But the wind is
everywhere and always q source of
power and should be utilized by the
farmer as n helping hand. Windmills
are comparatively cheap, aud many of
them are very effective. Great improve
ments have been mado upon the old
time windmills and n 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
,windmille.
There is scarcely farmer in the
country who can really afford TO be
without good windmill Tho nses to
which such machine may be put OH
every farm arc various and may DO
made to yield profit. To be surc. there
will DO some days when tho mill can.
mot 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 10
tide over ''doldrum" of even several
days at time. Some day-soon per-
haps--electrical appliances will be at.
fached to tho windmill. enabling the
FARMER to store power ms he now stores
wheat or cider, to be drawn upon for
use Whenever convenient. But the wind
mill as it is at the present time is suifi.
Gent 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 powC' OF the 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 a farm.
however small. With a good we'll, how
ever deep,jand q modern typo Of wind.
mill, water for household purposes.
stock and to some extent for irrigation
may be easily and chenply 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 bo
: provided whereby the power of the wind
may be made to turn tho grindstone
move the churn, shell the corn and
grind 1t both for the uso of the family
and: the stock, as we'll us to do mum
Der of other errands, such as elovating
grain md balod hay for storage in tho
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 moro expert.
'ence the long list of chores for the wind
mill will be heightened, while that for
the boys on the farm may he shortened
IN proportion. In brief, the modern
windmill affords the. farmer tho read
nest and cheapest means to apply tho
enormous force of the wind to useful
purposes about the farmstead 1t is nu
easy way to use to best advantage n
waste product which costs nothing to
produce, and which may nearly always
be relied upon to ease tho farmers toll
nswell as that of his family, while add.
3ng hundred hitherto unknown com
forts not only to the farmer and his
household, but to his hocks and herds