The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-03-01
THIRTY YEARS HENCE
PEN PICTURE OF FARM LIFE OF
THE FUTURE.
Dr0dJery Done Away With by abor-
Saving Machines Operated by
Alcohol Made at Home From
Waste Products.

In an article in Appleton's Magazine
Day Allen Wiley thus pictures the
farm OF 20 or 30 years hence.
We look IA vain for the wood lot
That disappeared long ago TO make
way for the more profitable field and
orchard The wood pile by the kitchen
door and the big fireplace have like
wise passed away Nor is there any
ash heap anywhere about To this
farmer coal is too expensive, espe-
cially when he knows that ne uses less
than 10 per cent OF the heat II gener-
ates and that for every ton he buys
he pays for so per cent waste. How
about kerosene or coal oil or whatever
YOU choose 10 call IL? What Is the
use OF paying freight from the oil
refinery and helping the trust to make
profit when | can get something bet
ter for my purpose right at home
This reply may not convince. be
cause as yet we have not had a chance
10 see for ourselves. but now We Will
start. beginning al the farmhouse. The
reason why no smoke comes from the
chimney is because the housewife is
getting dinner on a stove burning alco-
| hol-merely a turn OF a valve con
trolling the supply and the contact
of the match flame, that's all Here
and there are lamps which, when
lighted at dusk. give out such a brill
/ liant yet even illumination that the
ordinary gas jet is q mere glimmer in
| contrast Spirit furnishes the light
/ Over in the barn stands the familiar
| tanning mill for cleaning grain. but
no one turns the crank that revOlves
] its blades The farmer simply throws
and the mill begins humming a merry
tune in unison with the clicking of the
| feed cutter. which is also actuated
/ by the same invisible force. Nor does
/ the farmer depend on the breeze to
pump his water The motor-driven
pump keeps II flowing I'm steady
stream from the well into the tank
on the roof of his home. where II is
ever ready 10 extinguish fires and lets
him save on his insurance premiums.
In the orchard the press is squeezing
the juice out of the apples without a
touch OF the hand The hay press
does its work mechanically with just
boy TO feed it.
III we happen 10 be on the place
at butter-making time we see the
cream separators and churns doing
their duty independently Of the house
wife. who only looks into the cream
cry now and then TO see how things
are getting on. This farmer may have
horses. but not for faid work, because
he finds he can - much more with
motor driven machinery at the same
expense Even his plows and cultiya-
tors are pulled by the traction engine
with which he runs his harvester and
thrasher Here the engine must COM
/ municate its power directly 10 the
farm mechanism; but il he desires he
can operate the tanning mill. the sepa-
rator and the other appliances in the
house and barn from one source Of
\ power. using the electric current
which he can readily generate with
his little alcohol engine.
Is this sIaokeless. ashless. coalesce,
woodless agriculture such Utopian
scheme as 1t reads2"
In the course OF bis article, Mr..
Wiley goes on to show how practical
bic the scheme is through the use OF
home made alcohol made from waste
farm products. This alcohol was re-
Gently released from its exhorbitant
duty OF 20 times its cost and is now
very cheap.