| Show HOMEMADE wINDMSLL I Uooomincml by a 3tehnumn SIlo 1IM fMl U WIth Siccru A former of Overton Neb calls at Motion to n homemade vrindmlll by nu illustrated dcscriptioulu Knral New Yorker Ho Hays Wo Son located on Uio Platlo rhcr bottom which bore Is ubont nine miles ido A inoro fertile conutry docs nol e 1st Tlio groat drawhicfe is I lade of ruin fn como 8eUSOU8 TlIO Is being over como In this Dawson connty by Irrigation Irri-gation Sloop miles of ditch aro now in V A 00 DEVH 1V1XDMUI mcccssfnl operation Somo windmill plants nro also doing good EITTCO on a Email Rcalo Wo UBO sand points drh en to thin depth of 10 to 21 feet whore wo got un fndlcsi supply of water Wind inllla may bo tnrucd on nod run Ibo ycnr round and never affect Ibo witcr enpply A great many In this part of Ibo country nso homemade windmill of which I Boot a drawing An old boggy mlo is need for tho shaft which is eat In hole ot tho top of Ibo tower which fs R eqnaro box Our prevailing winds ado north soil couth KO tIcs mill Is ect to Coon that vny It will run with any wind ciccpt n direct side wind Ibo cost of snch n mill Is about 0 and answers tho canto purpofio ns n highpncod milL fly using largo tanks or rcpcrvoirs WAter may ho obtained for irrigating small areas at Sorry IltU outlay of money by using this device In an explanatory ncto ills editor of tho journal quoted ° Ibls tarm of windmill is cnllod a gcdovll in sooty part ot Ilia west As will bo wen from tho pictnm it is a box wlthont top or bottom not firmly on too ground Tho windmill is raadn Ilka au old fa hlon rd water Mliwl nllllls 1 set on tho box EO that the npiwr suifaoo is exposed 1 hlln tho cuds of the box protect Ito lower parts Tho wind blowing ocr tho top of tho box tunn tho whoel over nod ocr smco Ibo blades outsldoof tho box nro tAo only cues that foci Ito wind |
