Tol. XI. 



FEB. 1, 1883. 



No. 2. 



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NOTES FROM THE BANNER APIARY. 



NO. 39. 



A HOME-MADE WIND MILL. 



s|jP GUESS I shall have to be a little more careful 

 j6|[ about telling what I am going to do,— yes, or 

 even what I am thinkimj of doing. For instance, 

 on page 478 of October Gleanings for 1883, I re- 

 marked that I was "thinking quite strongly of 

 building a home-made wind-mill on top of my 8h<)p, 

 with which to run my buzz-saw." Nov. Oth I received 

 a letter from which I give the following extract:— 



"Well, friend H., how about that wind-mill? have 

 you made It yet? and if not, are you going to? and 

 when it la finished, will you give us a photograph and 

 description of it in Gleanings? I am just about 

 crazy to know all about it. I have a foot-power saw 

 that does good accurate work, but It needs more 

 power than I possess to run it. A patent wind- 

 mill costs as much as a steam-engine, and that is 

 more than I can afford at present. I wrote to A. I. 

 Koot to see if he could help me contrive a cheap 

 mill. He wrote me that he could think of nothing 

 cheaper than the patent mill; but we must and will 

 have something cheaper. Please let me hear from 

 you." 



Now, neighbor P. has a home-made wind-mill that 

 pumps the water, churns, and does sundry odd 

 chores for him, and had I made a mill It would have 

 been built upon the same plan as his. Soon after 

 receiving the above letter it occurred to me that a 

 drawing and description of my neighbor's home- 

 made wind-mill might be valuable to some of the 

 readers of Gleanings ; therefore, as soon as I had 

 leisure I took the sketching-camera under my arm 

 and went over to neighbor P.'s. The whole family 

 were interested in the sketching-camera, and then 



what a time neighbor P., his boys, and myself had 

 in looking for a good position I You see, the mill 

 was so high that it was impossible to get a good 

 view without going so far away as to make the pic- 

 ture too small. We mounted the straw - stack, 

 climbed upon top of the barn, on top of the wood- 

 shed, and went inside tho barn, climbed upon top of 

 the hay-mow, and pointed the "machine" through 

 the one or two Knot-holes that we could reach. ([ 

 have always obtained the clearest pictures by placing 

 the camera just inside the open door or window of 

 an otherwise darkened room.) Finally, by building 

 and climbing upon the top of a pyramid of boxes and 

 barrels just inside the great barn-door, and sliding 

 one of the doors partially open, a good position was 

 obtained, a sketch of the wind-mill taken, and here 

 it is. 



This style of mill might bo illustrated by placing 

 the fans of a fanning-mill in an upright position In- 

 side of a hogshead or large barrel, the staves of 

 which are made to overlap each other, and to turn 

 upon pivots at their ends, as do the slats of a win- 

 dow-blind. In the illustration given, the blinds are 

 represented as open, and it will be seen that the 

 wind can readily enter and strike the left side of the 

 fan-wheel, while at the right the blinds stand In such 

 a position that the wind is deflected or turned from 

 its course, and passes to the right, around the 

 outside of the mill. A is the vertical shaft to which 

 are attached the fans, or sails. Although not so 

 shown in the drawing, yet the corner posts of the 

 tower extend co and support the roof. 



Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the mill as it would ap- 

 pear if cut in two at the dotted line shown in Fig. 1. 



