The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1899-10-21
ELECTRICITY ON FARMS.
FUTURE FLOWING AND HARVESTING
WILL BE DONE sYIT.

Great and Radical Are the Changes in
Method. Coming for The TilIer Of the
| SoiI-Electrocution Applied 10 Weeds
An Electric Tree Destroyer the Latest.
The model farm of tomorrow aud
Of the future must avail itself Of the
most economical systems of rlaut
propagation. all the geJmagnetifere
must play al important part in its
workings. Beneath the rich soil in
gardens where the delicate vegetables
are GROWN networks ofiuvisible wires
are laitt, collecting and distributing
| the atmospheric elect: icity TO all the
! plants.
! In the forcing h:uses similar ar
raugements are made for stimulatiu s
the winter vegetables and flowers for
the market, while overhead powerful
arc lights make the night as brilliant
as day and help TO mature TIE plant
growtLs in half tie regular time !e-
Guirea by nature. In the fields Of
wheat an! ,o.n the more powerful
clrreuts from storage house work
ont SINH al results, lessening the sea.
son of growth and doubling the yield
Fer acre. Excessive drought and the
danger from late and early frosts a e
Thus partly avoided on the electric
farm, while, If necessary, two crops
can he raised in one season where
formerly only one coald be grown.
! Tie electric power tha' the farmer
has at his command enables him TO
regulate tie growth of h,s Plan s to
sui! the season or the markets. One
portion Of the gardel eau be forced,
While the other half is kept back sew
cal weeks.
There is no limit TO The use Of the
new invisible power which he gathers
from the at Eosphe'e around him or
generates from the wasted forces of
the neighbori stream o. water.
This leads to the examination Of the
source of the new power that prorels
the machinery oa the farm.
] \ small stream Of water that for
me- Is flowed across the farm in an
irregular cour.e, fertilizing the lower
meadows aud iTriga:ing the upland
districts, has been wilene;l aud deep.
ened nea: It's source. forming a large
! storage Reservoirs. THIS Artificial pond
| has been damned at it's lo~eE end,
| ard as the water t;1mbles over the
open waite: gates it turns several tur-
bine wheels.
These whoels do not move the ma
chinery Of -four mill but constantly
| manufacture electricity for u:e on the.
farm. By mems of the huge storage
reservoir the wo. k of making electri-
city Can 60 on through the dryest
season, for the water power never
gives out and the electric power is
always ready to do its work. From
this storage house the motive power
is contlucfe1 e1-ss 1sse.s 64tIs attI ~
The forcing houses fol- winter plants
are conn ected with the power houses
by overhead wires similar to those
which disfgure the city streets for
trolley lines. The great barn and
living house are lighted by cleo
tr..c lights that get their source Of
energy in the same place. Movable
tah.es rad:ate from the same storage
houses to every rart Of the fields and
to those electric motors are attached for
performing the various labors assigned
to them by the inventive genius Of
man.
The electri: machinery worked by
! the motors i full Of interest. Her.
are huge rlows that tura over six fu--
rows Of fresh soil at on e, hayra:ks
and rearers which perform their du-
ties automatically, electric weed xii.
: lers and fertilizers, corn huskers and
: shelters, hay choppers and gigantic
thceshiug and tanning mills. Elec-
/ vehicles rEsh aIcss the extensive
, fields with loads of grain, hay or vege'
tables, moving their broad tires with
! oat difficulty owe: the Tough aud un-
even surface, and behind the plows
aad arrows the automatic seede fol-
low in close succession, dropping the
corn, wheat or other seed at regular
intervals in tie freshly-iurnea fur
rows. Everything is performed by
machinery, guiled by disciplined
hands and propelled by the new mo-
, tive power tia. has caused al the
revolution.
! There a"e two general types Of these
electric plows which will serve to
Illustrate the general priuc;ple of
, operation in each class. The first
type is propelled. by fixed motor.
| The field selected for plowinQ is d.
vitled into sections of exactly the sa ne
width Of the cable useifcr pulling the
plows. A heavy, powerful: electric
no:o.' on wheels is stationed Gil each
side Of the field, and strong cable
coauects then. This cable winds and
and unwiads upon a spool as the ma
chinery is set in motion. 10 this
cable the plow, which is carable OF
turning from tn! ea to six furrows OF
SOL at once, is firmly attached. When
the electric motor on the sile OF the
fed is set in motion il winds up the
cable and drags the p!ow toward il,
and when it reaches that side Of the
field it turns around and the reverse
action Of the othe. motor repeats the
! operation.
| The second tyre Of electric pow is
! run by movable motor attached to
the plow itself. The cable is fixed to
an anchor on the opposite side OF the
| field and the electric motor follows
this cable, 4: :agging the heavy plow
with it. Even the wedding i, accom-
plished by electricity. The force that
stimulates plant growth and gives NO.
tive power to all the machinery can