THE ALTHOUSE WINDMILL.

Western Star, Issue 346, 24 April 1880, Page 8 (Supplement)

THE ALTHOUSE WINDMILL.

One of the most prominent exhibits in the grounds of the Garden Palace is the! collection of. windmills, and persons requiring the cheapest and simplest application of power for pumpiug, chaff-cutting, or any other work of similar .character, have now an opportunity of judging the merits of the various; makes. The -Althouse Windmill combines: all the most recent improvements introduced into this class of laborsaving -appliances, and its use in many districts will be of the greatest value to the squatter, farmer, gardener, and in fact to everyone requiring a cheap and efficient means ensuring a constant supply of water, -i As; they are self-regulating, they require little or no attention, and the instructions given with the mills are sufficient to enable any ordinary station or farm hand to erect and” keep them in order. - . ■. : . Referring to some of their advantages, we would mention that the waste of time and the hard work are by no means all the objections to hand pumping.; Every intelligent farmer knows that hired help is not always reliable, and the proprietor himself cannot be constantly ing the vyatering of stpck. : Consequently they are neglected until next day, when the cattle, almost famished, fill themselves so full of cold water that* they stand and shiver for hours, td their great injury ; and if water is any considerable,. 'distance from the yard in brooks or springs, in severe weather they will not go for it until very thirsty, when the results are tbe same. Every stock raiser also knows that cattle are more or less uneasy, and become unruly when not supplied with water, and are- continually breaking through enclosures, damaging crops, and straying from home in pursuit of it. Farmers often scoop out an artificial pond, and in warm- weather the cattle stand there for hours, and urinate and dung.in it, and it soon.becomes a warm, offensive mass of; filth, which they are forced to drink, and butchers will tell you their livers become diseased so that they :are not. fit for food.;: and thus grain is . wasted in attempts to fatten stock with diseased livers.. (

There are hundreds of large, wellwatered stock farms in the country, which ithe owners value fully.XilOOO or r L2QQO more than.if they were-not-thus-. provided ■with, water. .. It is high time, _ at least, therefore, that the squatters and 'farmers should be made aware of‘the fact that all the hiuh and dry parts of the country, by the use of fhis cheap, and’ s'nhple. devicey

e goo’cr stock farms, and in some cases, more valuable • than those possessing natural advantages for water, for there is no waste land, and the water can be provided directly, at the points desired, in farmyards and pastures. ; v ■ n • The dictates of wisdom, the great convenience, happiness .and comfort of. all concerned, the highest pecuniary interest, and the health of their stock, should lead stockowners to adopt this most valuableinvention., "lo

; ;i The Altbouse - windmill regulates the same as the governor of an engine.;-It will run in as light wind as any windmill made. *. It wilhmake less noise; and pump more water in a given time than any solid wheel mill, simply because its speed is uniform and sonstarif It will run with the; .same r speed iif itHe» pump detached rin a gale, does not; get ■ ouf'df order .when properly set up and oiled, and it-never-blows d6Wn. 600 have been sold in California and about 2000 in other parts of’ the United /States in less than’four years, all of. which: are giving batisfafetioh. No mill ever invented can show a Better record. Over.so in. New Zealand are now giving good satisfaction, and the attention pf the people ofLNeW‘ South Wales and other Australian colonies who need water pumped/for;irrigation, stock, or house purposes, ia directed to the Althouse Mill, one of which 'can be seen at the Exhibition at 1 Sydney. 1, - .. , ; •, •