QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JouRNAL. [1 APRIt, 1900. 
HOME-MADE WINDMILLS. 
WE learn from a bulletin of the United States Experiment Station of Nebrasit 
that there is a large increase in the number of home-made windmills in@ 
of that State. ciel 
They are used for irrigation and other work on farms, and are cone ag fF 
at little cost by farmers themselves. They are made of different forms, 8? ‘ad, 
they are not constructed that their vanes can be shifted with changes of w he 
they are so fixed as to be driven by the two most prevalent winds, the it 
east and south-west, or a few points off either way, thus driving the mil bo 
changes according to either current of wind. The writer of the bulletin tae 
The importance of this movement, inaugurated by our inventive farme™ 
made mmaiites! in that many acres of garden truck, fruit land, and eve? eet 
land are irrigated ; that stock is supplied with water; that ranchmen and § 
herders are benefited; that dairy products are increased and improved; 
that the comfort of the village and the rural home is often enhanced. that | 
The merit of home-made mills has enjoyed such prompt recognition se || 
they are going up daily. Not to the detriment, we are happy to say; of ae 
important adjuncts to the farm, the shop-made mills, but in addition to the r 
One of the most popular of these home-made mills is the “ Jumbo, te 
is very much like an overshot water-wheel, and is a horizontal or Oven aer 
wind-wheel. All kinds of what would often be waste material are used 12 © 0 
construction, and in this way they are economical in cost. One of these /¥ 
windmills is thus described with illustration :— ae 
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The Jumbo windmill of Dr. E. O. Boardman, Overten, Nebraska. Built by a car pent eat 
blacksmith out of new material at a cost of 8°00 dollars (83s. 4d.) Iron axle. Fans 5 ¥ te fro 
J amibe box Shy 12, by 6 feet high. Mounted on posts. Pumps water for 100 head of c# 
an 18-foot well. 2 
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This mill serves our purposes doubly, in that it furnishes exact bathe 
respecting a mill built by carpenter and blacksmith, and out of new !U 5 0! 
This mill with a Jumbo box 6 feet by 8 feet by 12 feet, supporting four fan det 
an iron axis, cost just 8 dollars. The four fans were each 6 feet square, DO ds 
up solidly. Had there been six or eight fans with but two or three erie 
instead of five or six, the results would have been far better, and it would § ‘amp 
as a model. However, as it is, it serves its owner well, and helps to P 
water for 100 head of cattle. are 
Almost any kind of material may enter into their make-up, 8° they og 
economical. We have seen old lumber, lath, shingles, split rails, old pat 
boxes, barrel staves, coffee sacks, and even tin from old tin roofs presses 5 
the service in the construction of these mills. 
