The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-08-18
A PRIME MOVER.
Wind Power Mills n Great Boon (
the Western Farmer.

VIVA rover Mills a Great Boon to
the Western Farmer.
In this year of prosperity to the West
I'm farmer he is not disposed to feel am
'ther time may come when he will not
reed water us he has In years past, when
fons have burned up from droutll and
his stock die from n lack of good water
the right TING, easily procured, without
abor. When he places his order this
ear Tor the best labor-saving machinery,
= wind mill to pump his water is one Of
he first thoughts, and thousands Of these
Wind harnesses will dot the prairics next
ear.
Perhaps of NIL machines on the farm
mere has none advanced more rapidly
Il favor and as labor savers than the
modern wine mill.
flfty years ago the old four and six
rm mill, rudely constructed, was made
It the cross roads shop, but what Me-
Sorfnlck n others did for the harvest
RS, Perkins did for the wind mill. This
:enius aHcng inventors virtually har-
,essed the winds and made the wind mill
10 his bidding.
Ibis pioneer in this work devoted his
life to devising means to utilize the clc-
nents for power useful to man, and when
;e dled ms life earnings went to charities
nat will endear his name totthousands Of
ioung men women who are being cd
lcated and made better citizens by his
life work.
When Mr.. Perkins made the first self
:esulating' wind mill his name became a
household word among the progressive
'armcrs of the East. But he did not
top here. Water lifting for stock and
ouse use was but the entering wedge
or wind power. The possibilities of the
rcat West opened to him. and for prac-
ical demonstration he purchased land in
'Aansas. where his irrigating mills were
uceessfully used and have become q boon
70 the sinallGfarmcr
His attention was early attracted to the
leep well sections, where stock went
niles to the streams to Quench their
hirst. Here he constructed q special
nill that is in general use among the
arsr stock growers, and they do their
nty far from human habitation, month
liter month. furnishing cattle with cold
vater from the bowels of old mother
,arth. having no human care, lonely bea-
IONS on the unbipkcn prairies.
The browning triumph was the power
nil that bears his name. His familiarity
With farmi life and its h%ardships and
ares early led him to devise plans where
oy the farner could use his mill for other
imposes than drawing water. His early
ANS were crude, but he was nothing il
.ot progressive, and the Perkins power
Wiuu MIL OF Io-dnS is Il tnlnS OF beauty
md n Joy to the farmerr- This powerful
wind engine not only supplies water for
she largcst farms and forces it to all
parts of the farmers dwelling, but with
/ perfect system of transmission it en-
lbles the farmer to cnt his fodder, buzz
his wood. sharpen his tools, and while he
sleeps this safe and ~tireless machine
srinds his feed by night or day and trans
mits it to the storage bins.
This old inventors den Mt the factory
at Mishnwaka, Ind. is n study for the
curious AMI the student of wind power
never tires Of the sights there presented
to him.
This good mans aim was always on
ward and upward, and his success was,
as it is with his successors. to make the
best. believing competition would rcgu-
late ITSELF with c0mmo sense. His boast
was that his mill controlled the wind and
not the Wind his mill, hence they stand
where others fall.