Show ii BRIW-ii FUTURE OF WINDMILL I of Weather Bureau u eau Takes Most Hopeful View of Value of Wind as as' Farm Ass Assat t. t A few years ears ago a collective report was made by American consuls throughout the world on the tho us use of windmills In their several districts and the prospects prospects' of or increasing tho the sales of American n windmills in Ih foreign At that time the manufacture ture ure lIt of windmills in this country had Increased fourfold in ten tea years eating a rapid growth in their use Uge by our own people However Ho the report was on tho the whole rather Ing Lug The fhe use of windmills was found to have hav greatly decreased In the Old World This was notably true in Hoiland Holland Hoi Hol- land the country with which the windmill windmill windmill wind wind- mill is traditionally associated For Forthe Forthe Forthe the great national task of draining the tho polders windmills were being rapidly replaced by steam pumps The greater number of European windmills were erected before the days of steam This fact together with the relative Inefficiency of the old fashioned European windmill shows that the decline In the use o of these devices abroad is no indication of the future In store for the American American Ameri Amen can windmill The American farmer uses the windmill wind mill chiefly f fbi fbi- for r pumping water both for dome domestic tlc purposes purposes and t for r tion To some extent It has been used for tor driving the the minor machinery of the farm Attempts to it as a means of generating electricity for lighting and power purposes have hardly passed the experimental stage That this will wUl come In time seems Inevitable in In- evitable and herein probably lies the greatest future utility of the windmill as an adjunct I in l farming as well asIn as asIn asin In other occupations The future developments in this line Une will be conditioned by by the meteorology of the country and In this connection it Is Is' important to have accurate statistics sta sta- sta- sta s of the average force and constancy constancy constancy con con- stancy of the winds In all sections Such Information Is presented in brief form by Mr 1 P. P C. C Day of the weather bureau Sn n an article published In thelast thelast the thelast last Yearbook of the department o of agriculture A number of charts bring out clear the great diversity in windi ness less in different parts of the conn wun- cry try Mr Day takes a most hopeful view of ot the value of the wind as an asset in American agriculture |