Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1900-08-17
A PRIME MOVER.
wind Power Min. a Great Boon t.
the Western Farmer.

tue Wc0teru c0rtnCrs
In this year OF prosperity to the West.
other time nay come when he will not
need water as lie has IN years past, when
crops have burned W from drouth and
his stock die from a lack OF good water
Mt the right time, easily procured, without
labor. When he places his order this
year for the hest labor-saving machinery,
a wind mill to pump his water is of
the first thoughts, and thousands Of these
wind harnesses will dot the prairies mex
year.
Perhaps of all machines on the farm
there has none advanced more rapidly
in favor and as labor savers than the
modern wind mill.
Fifty years ago the old four and six
nrm mill. rudely constructed. was made
It the cross roads shop, but what Me-.
Corinick and others did for the harvest
cfs, Perkins did for the wind mill. This
genius among inventors virtually har-
messed the winds and made the wind mill
do his bidding.
This pioneer in. this work devoted his
HE to devising means to utilize the Gle.
ments for power useful to man, and when
he died his life earnings went to charities
that will endear his name to thousands of
young men and women who are being cd
ucated and made better citizens by his
life work.
When Mr.. Perkins made the first "sclf.
regulating wind mill his name became a
household word among the progressive
farmers of the East. But he did not
stop here. Water lifting for stock and
house Use was but the entering wedge
for wind power. The possibilities of the
great West opened to him, and for prac-
teal demonstration he purchased land in
Kansas. where his %irrigating mills We're
successfully used and have become u boon
to the small farmer.
His attention was early attracted to the
dccp we'll sections. where stock won't
miles to the streams to Quencn their
thirst. Here he constructed a special
mill that is in general use among the
large stock growers, and they do their
duty far from human habitation. month
after month, furnishing cattle with cold
water from the bowels of old mother
earth, having no human care, lonely bea.
cons on the unbroken prairics.
The browning triumph was the power
mill that bears his name. His familiarity
with farm life and its laldsllips and
cares early led him to devise plans where
by the farmer could use his mill for other
. purposes than drawing water. His early
plans We're crude, but he was nothing il
not progressive. and the Perkins power
wind mill of to-day is a thing of beauty
aud a joy to the farmer. This powerful
WIN cliSilIe uot oAiS SuUluiSS NNtci ioi
the largest farms and forces it to al
parts of the turner's dwelling, but Will
a perfect system of transmission it ell
ables the farmer to cut his fodder. buz,
his wood. sharpen his tools. aud whilc hi
sleeps this safe and t~irelcss machine
grinds his feed by night or day and trans
! mits it to the storage bins.
This old inventors eden" at the factor,
ut Mishawakn, Ind. is Il study for TIL.
curious and the student of wind power
never tires of the sights there presented
to him.
!, This good mans aim was always OH
ward and upward. and his success was
as it is with his successors. to make TIL,
best. believing competition would resu
late itself with common sense. His boas
was that his mill controlled the wind an,
not the wind his mill. hence they stan,
whore o.hcrS fall. 81