1 The windmill (Continued from Page 97) and was attached to a drive pulley that powered a variety of machines. But then small gasoline engines came along and the windmill was relegated to a less important position, primarily pumping water. Not much more was done to tap this vast source of energy until the last few years when people started worrying about an energy crisis. Now large sums of money are being spent to turn wind energy into useful I FARMERS! We'll give you a I $ 1000 I U.S. Savings Bond for buying kl a Case tractor in July, or a $5OO | Bond for buying in August With the purchase of a new Case Model 885, I 990 or 995 Low Profile tractor, from a par y ticipatlng Case dealer. For $lOOO bond, tractor j purchase must be made during July, 1978. For i $5OO bond, make tractor purchase between j August 1 and 31,1978. The sooner you buy, the more you save! See us now! Get a good deal on a great tractor, plus a free U.S. Savings Bond just for making up your mind. PARTS • SERVICE • RECONDITIONED TRACTORS CONVENIENT FINANCING • LEASING • RENTALS doing something about it. DEPENDABLE MOTOR CO. C. H. WALTZ SONS, INC. PEOPLES SALES & SERVICE A. L. HERR & BRO. East Mam Street RDI, Cogan Station, PA 3i 2 Fark^ve Honey Brook, PA (717)435-2921 (717)463-2735 PA (215)273 3131 (717)786-3521 STOUFFER BROS. INC. 1066 Lincoln Way West Chambersburg, PA (717)263-8424 C. H. RIMER i SONS PAUL SHOVED’S INC. BINKLEY & HURST BROS. EOWARBS FARM EOUIP. uni Rorwirk PA 35 East Willow St 133 Rothsville Station Rd 291 West Moorestown Road E7I7T 752 7131 Carlisle PA Lititz, PA (Rt 512 Clearfield) ' ' (717)243 2686 (717)626 4705 Nazareth, PA (215)759-0240 NEVIN N. MYER & SONS, INC. ZIMMERMAN’S FARM SERVICE E. W. BILEWICZ EQUIP., INC. Rm Chester Sonnes PA Bethel, PA Elmer Rd , Richwood, NJ (215)827-7414 (717)933 4114 (609)881-2692 power. A windmill is on the drawing boards now with blades that measure 300 feet from tip to tip. This con traption, being built under a 10 million dollar contract, is supposed to produce two and-a-half megawatts of electricity. Other machines of lesser magnitude are on the design boards or are already in the field, such as one in Boone, N.C., which is expected to be operational this year. The feeling of the researchers is that wmd CLAIR J. MYERS Lake Road R 1 Thomasville, PA (717)259-0453 a# power may offer an economical alternative energy resource to farmers, if the cost of wind systems can be reduced. There’s always that problem of having a job to do and no wind available and there’s the additional problem of the tremendous demands of agriculture at peak times. So maybe windmills will never replace other forms of energy completely, but the researchers believe they will provide an alternative and a very valuable supplement. One hitch in the windmill business is the storage of electrical energy. As one industry spokesman points IIIIIIIIK&3 T&T SUPPLY. INC. C. & P. FULTZ EQUIP. RDS, Danville, PA (717)275-0927 2 mi S off Rte 54 out, batteries haven’t been inproved much since the 1920’5. A breakthrough in storage technology would go a long way toward making wind-generated electricity a reality on American farms. The neatest windmill irrigation system I’ve heard of was operated several years ago in Texas. In that installation, a windmill pumped water from a well into an overhead tank. The tank was tied to an un derground trickle irrigation system. Pressure was provided by the height of the storage tank. So all the system needed to work was RD 1, Spring Mills, PA (814)422-8805 _ I Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 29,1978 some wind. When the wind blew the tank filled and the trickle irrigation system Th® energy crisis has kept an otherwise barren caused a revival of the piece of ground producing windmill. It will be in lush pasture for Texas beef terestmg to see what a few cattle. It operated 24 hours a more years of wmdpower day and required virtually research will produce. New York dairy assessment bill called 6 deceptive 9 by Eastern to Joseph Mathis, Eastern’s economist, there has been little, if any, disclosure to dairy fanners that this legislation is under con sideration. The current milk promotion order requires all New York State dairy far mers to contribute five cents a hundredweight from their milk checks each month to fund milk promotion and nutrition research programs on state and national levels. That order was approved earlier this year by a bare In its veto request, majority of the producers in Eastern noted that enact- New York State after they ment of this bill not only were told that such approval would contradict long- would not mean an increase established and widely- m the assessment rate, accepted principles of law “Enactment of this and economic regulation, legislation to permit easy but would place too much approval of rate increases in control in the hands of the future would be special mterest groups at the deceptive at best and an expense of all dairy farmers, justice at worst,” stressed Unfortunately, according Mathis. SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A bill now awaiting executive action by New York Governor Hugh Carey is being adamently opposed by Eastern Milk Producers, the largest dairy cooperative in New York State. If enacted, the legislation would permit the rate of assessment against New York’s dairy farmers to be increased by separate amendment of the state’s milk promotion order without consideration of the whole order. WHITE WASHING DAIRY WHITE -DRIES WHITE - DOES NOT RUB OFF EASILY -NO WET FLOORS - IS COMPATIBLE WITH DISINFECTANT AND FLY SPRAYS ■ WASHES OFF WINDOWS & PIPELINES EASILY ALSO BARN CLEANING SERVICE AVAILABLE WITH COMPRESSED AIR To have your barn cleaned with air it will clean off dust, cob webs & lot of the old lime This will keep your barn looking cleaner & whiter longer MAYNARD L. BEITZEL Witmer, PA 17585 717-392-7227 If no answer call Willard Beitzel 717-656-9569 Barn spraying our business, not a side-line Spraying Since 1961 HIGH PRESSURE WASHING AND DISINFECTING POULTRY HOUSES AND VEAL PENS. 1 _ J no supervision or main tenance. with 103.
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