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Show BRIGHT FUTURE OF WINDMILL Attach of Weather Bureau Take Most Hopeful View of Value of Wind a Farm Asset. A few years ago a collective report waa made by American consul throughout the world ou the use of wludmills In their several districts, und the prospect of increasing the suit' of American windmills In foreign "ountries. At thut time the inanufuc Mrv of windmills In this country bad Increan d fourfold lu ten years, Indicating Indi-cating a rapid growth In their use by our own people. However, the report was, on the whole, rather discouraging. discourag-ing. The use of windmills was found to have greatly decreased In the Old World. This was notably true lu Holland, Hol-land, the country with which tho windmill wind-mill Is traditionally associated. For the great national task of draining the polder windmills were being rapidly replaced by steam pumps. The greater number of European windmills were erected before tbe day of steam. This fact, together with the relative inefficiency of the old fashioned European windmill, show that the decline in the us of these devices abroad Is no iudlcatlon of the future In atore for tbe American Ameri-can windmill. The American farmer usee the windmill wind-mill chiefly for pumping water, both for domestic purposes and for Irrigation. Irriga-tion. To some Extent It has been used for driving the minor machinery of the farm. Attempts to u w it aa a mean of generating electricity for lighting and power purpose have hardly passed the experimental ataga. That this will come In time seems Inevitable, In-evitable, and herein probably lie tbe greatest future utility of the windmill aa an adjunct In farming, a well a In other occupation. The future development In this line will be conditioned by the meteorology of the country, and in this connection It is Important to have accurate statistic sta-tistic of the average force and constancy con-stancy of the winds in all section. Such information Is presented In brief form by Mr. I C. Day of the weather bureau In an article published In the last Yearbook of the department of agriculture. A number of charts bring out clear the great diversity In "wlcdl-ness" "wlcdl-ness" In different parts of the foundry. foun-dry. Mr Dry takes a most hopeful view of the value of the wind as an asset In American agriculture. |