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FARM MOTORS 



FIG. 204 MOCK TURBINE WINDMILL 



picked up around the farm. The axle can be made of a 

 pole smoothed up* at the ends for bearings, or a short rtxl 

 can be driven in at each end. The tower can be made of 

 three or four poles and the sails of pole cross pieces and 

 old boxes. One of these mills 10 feet in diameter will 

 pump water for 75 head of cattle. Near Verdon, Nebraska, 

 a farmer uses one of these mills in the summer to pump water 

 for irrigation, and in the winter for sawing wood. 



424. Turbine windmills. The term windmills as it is 

 commonly used refers only to the American type of 



