Show WINDMILL IS CHEAP POWER In n Many Western Sections Ono One le 10 Used to Supply Reservoir to Small Gardens From almost time Immemorial the they windmill has been the cheap power on oa tho the farm tarm It Is a familiar sight in is many old countries lilea liko Holland Honan where It becomes the errand boy d dong do- do ing ng a n thousand and one things for fox forthe forthe the farmer besides grinding his bis grist and pumping water In the tha stock raising regions of ot the Mississippi Mississippi 1 sippi plains and intermountain regions re ra regions gions of ot the west scarcely a n farm or orr ranch can be found without the windmill wind mill to pump stock water says saya Camp Campbells bells bell's Scientific Farmer In many sections a a- small reservoir Is supplied by the windmill and this thirst water Is used to Irrigate a small garden garden gar gar- garden den and the la lawn laYn yn The office of Irrigation of the United States department of agriculture has a number of stations sta throughout the west to to test ther the efficacy and practical Importance of at pump Irrigation by windmill and gasoline gaso 1 line engine for the home garden an and small crop areas from one to ten acres Stations are now In In- operation In several states and are certain to prove of at great practical value to those regions The pumping capacity of windmills depends up upon n so many different things things- besides the caprice of oC the wind that it is scarcely advisable to attempt any estimate of of capacity The general rule rule force force of ot wind Increases Increases In Increases In- In creases or decreases with the square of Its Ita velocity would velocity would measure the- the power if we had ten hours of ot any give j giveen en day when we had the same wind winds force Wilcox in Irrigation Farming has hag estimated the mean average velocity of the wind of the United States as a little less than eight miles miles' an hour hour- for a n mean average period of eight to ten hours out of twenty-four twenty a full tull day The two most important t factors we wa now have to consider are force of of- the wind and diameter of the wheel An Air mile eight-mile wind gives a force of or one- one third of a pound to the square foot foots and when we consider foot pounds as one horsepower we we can measure the efficiency of our our- wind wind- wind mill One horsepower Wilcox says s 's ys will r raise lse one acre inch of water 27 54 gallons one loot foot high in t ten n min min- utes toes It will elevate this one inch inch- atI of at I water for one acre 25 feet above th thi the tha source in 4 16 1 hours i i |