Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1903 — Indiana A Windmill State. [ARTICLE]

Indiana A Windmill State.

Indiana has Holland baoked dear off the map when it comes to windmills both in their mannfac* tore and in their use. There are five thousand mills sold iu the state every year and the state has two of the largest factories in the world, the Flint & Walling mill at Keudallville and tbe R|d Gross factory in Hanford City. ’* Windmills nowadays are a great deal more than they were 20 years ago. Then they were for pumping water and nothing else. Now they will do everything on the farm except build the fire in the morning. Agents say that it is too much to expect a farmer to help the mill to do its work by bothering with a weight and that now there is a device on all regulated mills whioh makes them pump water when the tank is empty and take a vacation when the tank is full. Unlike Unman ‘‘tanks” they know when they have got enongh.