The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-11-08
LABOR SAVING DEVICE
Scheme to Aid the Women Work
ers on Farms.
HOW A LAUNDRY WOULD HELP

Modern Diaries, For Instance, Require
How One Laundry Could BE Used by
q Number Of Families.
The modern clean, convenient and
hygienic dairy barn means a great deal
Of additional work for the farmers
wife and her helpers, for suits must
be washed. and there is a general in
crease In laundry and similar work.
Ii Is only just that these added bur-
dens should be Offset by more conven-
iences and labor saving devices. In
general IL is not true that the farm
home has kept pace with the rest OF
the farm in the adoption of farm meth
dds Of labor saving devices and other
conveniences.
A widely known dairy commissioners
who had given the matter considerable
thought suggested that a laundry such
as he a in mind could be used by a
number OF families in Il neighborhood
on the payment OF a small fee. Such
ideas of cooperation applied TO rural
life are interesting as well as valuable
and al Indication Of a means by which
the farm housewives labors may be
lessened In a number of ways. A Co
operative bakery or laundry seems as
practical as the cooperative creamery
which is now so common in the middle
west.
The suggestion Is as follows:
A laundry provided with stationary
washtubs, with washer and wringer
for power use. is an innovation. But
why should not the women of the
farm be provided with modern appli-
ances? The farmer no longer reaps
with a sickle or even with n cradle.
He rides his pillow and often his cuiti-
vator. He rides his grain drill. corn
planter and corn cultivator. He
his grain harvester and his corn har-
vester. He loads his hay by machin-
cry and pitches il into h barn by
horsepower. The time Is come when
II Is positively inhuman to ask women
To toll without water or machine pow
er in the house. The same water,
steam and sewage system hat must
be present for the dairy will take care
of the laundry. The same power used
for grinding feed and separating milk
or pumping water and saving wood
viii turf the washer and wringer.
Stationary tubs of three compart-
ments, power washer. wringer. piping
and connections and drying room will
cost In the neighborhood of $40, and
the interest on this amount is $3.50;
the deterioration, assuming that they
will have to be replaced in fifteen
years. equals $3.50 a year. or a total
of S19.15. to be correct, or, say, $40
even money.
That Is IS cents a week. TO which
add 10 cents a week for gasoline used
by the engine. If the farmer We're
compelled to Kill and dress two hogs
every week throughout the year he
would not hesitate to spend so cents
a week for machines which would save
so much labor and enable him to do
more work In less time. A power
ironer costing about $50 could be add
ed if ''he" took a notion to be liberal
in the matter.
A drying oom q by IL feet between
the dairy room and The laundry room.
provided with steam pipes for heat
Ing, will not cost n great deal and in
sures quick. clean and easy drying of
clothes in any kind OF weather and
will save her a good many trips out
in Indictment weather. A power laun-
dry like this ma be rented to neigh
bors for. IA 30 cents a day, they to
come to the place and do the work and
clean up the plant after they are
through. Washington Cor. Kansas