WINDMILL GRINDER.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3612, 19 December 1905, Page 4

WINDMILL GRINDER.

How to Arrange and Put Up On* That Will Saw Wood and Grind

Corn for Feeding. One of the best plans is to secure, in the first place, a good windmill, and second, a good thoroughly-automatic feed grinder, which will regulate' the amount of feed strictly in proportion to the speed at which the mill is being driven, and which will stop empty whenever the mill stops. With such a feed grinder as this, arranged preferably directly upon the driving shaft of the geared mill, a large amount of feed may be ground wherever there is any considerable amount of steady wind above a velocity of 12 to 15 mile* per

A windmill grinder. hour. In order to get the maximum amount of work out of the mill in the way of feed grinding, it is necessary to provider large bin above the grinder, in whioh the grain to be ground can be placed, and then have this arranged in such a way that the grain feeds directly the mill whenever the mill is running. With this arrangement must also of course be provided a bin into which the ground meal can fall out of j'he way of the grinder. Such an arrangement is shown by the cut, taken from (he \\ hcomsin agricultural experiment station bulletin No. 82. The grinder there shown is arranged directly on the driving shaft of a 12-foot geared windmill, and upon the same shaft is shown a driving pulley, to which a belt may be attached for the purpose of sawing wood or driving any other piece of machinery which the mill has the capacity of handling. This driving pulley can be used to drive a machine set anywhere on the circumference of a circle surrounding the vhafi and without disturbing the feed ,-u der; it only being necessary to thi aw the grinder out of us© when the driving shaft is desired for some other i.’irpoße. —F. H. King, in Rural New i orker.