Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1899-05-05
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS
FACTS AND OPINIONS GATHERED
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
ELECTRICITY ON THE FARM.

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A new wrinkle is reported from Pitts
burg, Penn, in the shape of the installa
ton by the Westinghouse company of an
electrical plant for furnishing light, heat
and power to a farm, the energy neces-
sary being derived from the water power
on the farm property.
Farmers as rule have not much ready
money to invest, and the high cost OF
electrical installation in the past natural
" proved prohibitive. But with dyna'
mo and a small domestic plant for light
and heat coming within the purse of the
thrifty farmer, it would seem in well
watered and billy country like Pennsyl-
yania or say Vermont there need be no
big farm without electrical resources,
while the miller and saw-mill man ought
to be able to utilize the water usually
wasted at night in lighting his own and
his neighbors' houses, as well as cooking
his evening meal. The practical solu-
ton of the problem presents no difficult
ties. 1t is the cost, bat this, distributed
over number of years, with the conse-
quent saving in light and heat, oil and
coal, ought to pay for itself and help the
wide-awalle agriculturist to reach a new
plane.
1t is suggested that one of the best
things for country fairs and agricultural
exhibitions would be a typical electrical
farm plant with calculations as to what
horse power could be gotten from given
natural water energy. This would en-
able the farmer to appraise the value of
the natural energy on his farm now
running to waste, and determine its
economic Importance. 1t is only by max
ing use of all the available resources of
the earth that farming can be made to
paw, and the successful farm of the flu
ture will be the farm upon which science
is most completely applied.-Burlington
News.
SENATOR HOAR ON THE TRUST PROBLEM.
Thoughtful consideration of the prob
lem presented by the rapid growth OF
trusts is confined TO no single party or
class. Among politicians there has been
tendency upon the part of Democrats to
assume that theirs was the party to
grapple with this question and settle it.
AS is the case with every great question,
however, suggestions for solution come
from all sources. Among the latest to
discuss the matter in public is Mr.. Iloar,
the venerable Republican senator from
Massachusetts. Mr.. Hoar did not offer
any specific solution, but cOntented him.
self with pointing out that trade COM
binations furnish the problem to which
the craftsmanship of this country must
be directed. He did say, however, in
0pposition to the statement recently
made by Acknowledgement Griggs, that
he believed the solution of the problem
rested with congress, and not with the
states. In support of that contention he
cited the readiness and ease with which
trusts could be formed in one state-New
Jersey-to do business all over the union
Senator Ioar did well to point out the
danger of going at the matter in an i'll
considered and ultra radical manner. lie
is right in saying the problem requires
the exercise of the qualities of states
manshp for its proper settlement. Inc
interests at stake are too large and The
nature of the relations sustained to the
public by these aggregations of capita
are too complicated and vital for haphaz
ard reatment.-Chicago Record.