Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-03-29
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Utilizing THE WIND POWER.

able Functions Performed by Modern
Windmilis at Small Cost.
be wind, like the poor, is always
us. In no considerable area in the
led States is there a demand for
B wind. 1t is indeed the specially
Rreeable feature of nearly every eli
:. The cold north winds of winter
the raw winds Of March as we'll
tho p%arching and drying winds
hummer are alike disagreeable if
destructive. But the wind is
where and always a source of
r and should be utilized by the
er as u helping hand. Windmills
comparatively cheap, and many of
are very effective. Great improve
b have been made upon tho old
Ewindmills, and a new and posi-
bore appropriate nomenclature is
employed whereby we are intro
to "wind engines, 'aermotors, y
Bill all these improved devices are
mills.
SS#s9 Mere is scarcely a farmer il. the
006SS2ntry who can really afford to be
without a good windmill. The uses to
WhichSsuch a machine may be put on
every farm are various and may BIO
made 10 yield a profit. To be snro, there
will b4 some days when the mill can
not eafn it's keep through no fault of its
own but OH most farms a little atten-
tiQME from day to day will supplement
the tmCk of motive power, and enough
WORN may DO done on breezy days to
stid8bGNer a ''doldrum" of even several
'daysat a time. Some day-soon per-
haps-electrical appliances will be at
taChed to the windmill, enabling the
4m1Sner to store power as he now stores
k&at or cider, to be drawn upon for
kgWhenever convenient. But the wind
q as it is at the present time is suffi-
N for most purposes to which farm
onx wish to apply power thus derived.
n1nNn writes a correspondent of The IT.
yfSiatton Age, who adds:
VIA ReThaps one of the most common uses
stosWhich the power of tho wind is APP
pliedi s the pumping Of water. Raising
water by hand, even from shallow wells,
ID very hard work and too slow a proc
en- to be thought of OH stock farms or
when required for irrigation Oh a farm,
however small. With a good we'll, how
ever deep, and a 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 Il 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 grindstone,
move the churn, shell tho oorn and
grind it both for the use of the family
Der Of other errands, such as elevating
grain and baled hay for storage in 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
emo the long list of chores for the wind
mill will be heightened, while that for
the boys on the farm may be shortened
in proportion. In brief, the modern
windmill affords the farmer the read
lest and cheapest means to apply the
enormous force of the wind to useful
purposes about the farmstead. 1t is an
easy way to use to best advantage a
waste product which costs nothing to
produce, and which may nearly always
be relied upon to ease the farmers toll
as we'll 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 fiocks and herds.