. Farm machinery and farm motors. FIG. 203.—BATTLE-AX WINDMILL 302 FARM MOTORS. 1 FIG. 204—MOCK TURBINE WINDMILL picked up around the farm. The axle can be made of apole smoothed up at the ends for bearings, or a short rodcan be driven in at each end. The tower can be made ofthree or four poles and the sails of pole cross pieces andold boxes. One of these mills 10 feet in diameter willpump water for 75 head of cattle. Near Verdon, Nebraska,a farmer uses one of these mills in the summer to pump waterfor irrigation, and in the winter for sawing wood. 424. Turbine windmills.—The term windmills as
. Farm machinery and farm motors. FIG. 203.—BATTLE-AX WINDMILL 302 FARM MOTORS. 1 FIG. 204—MOCK TURBINE WINDMILL picked up around the farm. The axle can be made of apole smoothed up at the ends for bearings, or a short rodcan be driven in at each end. The tower can be made ofthree or four poles and the sails of pole cross pieces andold boxes. One of these mills 10 feet in diameter willpump water for 75 head of cattle. Near Verdon, Nebraska,a farmer uses one of these mills in the summer to pump waterfor irrigation, and in the winter for sawing wood. 424. Turbine windmills.—The term windmills as it iscommonly used refers only to the American type of WINDMILLS 303
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