Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-06

WORK IoT the ihei anu women on tho
farm; each year the conditions Of ths
rural inhabitants of the country ~
improved with new and better farm
ing mach inery. telephones, rural fra,
delivery and better prices for farm
produce.
For years the most perplexing nroh.
leni of farm life has been the emnlov-
ment of suitable labor. Farm hand,
are very scarce and they must be maid
good wages or they will not stay. Mod.
err invention has produced a maehina
for nearly every disagreeable chore on
the farm but these diverse machines
require power-t there Is no eusiua
handy then the Wneels OF lnese Ma.
chimes must be turned by hand 81
And it is right here that science re.
Numbering this eternal worry Of thu
farmer has stepped in and solved tina
power question with electrical appara-
tus and motors just suited for farm
work. This new hired man. never
kicks at getting up at $40 A. NJ; never
objects to scrubbing the milk cans and
never gets mad and quits the very
morning that five acres OF hay are rea.
dy for the barn. And he will even DO
the chores at the barn and help about
the house at the same time.
An idea of the extent in which elsc-
tricity is being used in agriculture may
be gained from a description of 300
acre electrically operated farm on
Long Island. This farm, a portion Of
which is salt marsh land not cultiya-
ted. was for years allowed to grow
wild. 1t was about three years ago
that the present owner, a New Yorker
purchased the property and proceeded
to farm it along modern lines.
The inst thing the new owner did
was to wire the house and barns for
electricity for light and power. One
hundred and sixty electric incandes-
cent lamps were installed about the
premises. All the machines about the
barns were old. but were easily cleaned
up. and by supplying a few missing
parts, We're arranged for belt drive
from a countershaft. The feed cuttfr
root cutter, fodder cutter, tanning MIL
griHdStope. circular saw, corn Shelter
small drill press and horse clipper |
We're grouped so as to be driven by one
3-horSe- power motor. The fact that DO
Two of the large machines were needed
at the same time mare it possible 70
use such A small motor
1t cost $500 to install the private
plant consisting of a 10horse-pov1
gas engine driving a XIV. generatd
But the yearly cost figured out as low
as '$670-less than two-thirds Of Enas
the owner must have paid to rent elec-
trical power. That $50 was made up
of, first. interest on investment and de-
probation of plant at II per cent, W.
and. second. of running expenses ~
fuel. lubricating oil and minor repairs
$3.50. There was no cost for labor &C,
cause the plant required no expert az
tention after the daily starting OF Gu
CINE and generator. One could 90
full days work and give the electro
hired man. between times, all the ~
tention requisite.
The power plant was installed ID as|
unused one-story carriage shed. ioca'eu
at the westerly end of the l. formeo ~
the linked group of farm DulidhsaI
That was about $50 feet from the pu'M
ing containing the farm machinery a q,
the creamery, but it permitted oil u'"'
cation OF a structure otherwise idle'
1t was found to be most economic
IN inc FOL or hQttpTv 10 DTUNS
a continuous supply of current 50
engine need not run all the time VI
case anything happens to the plant Il.
The new farmer turned loose W.
current on a churn, electrically orn.~
and made it grind out, regularly w.
day. from ten to twelve pounds OIL Wv
ter inside of fifteen minutes.
An automatic refrigerating p'aAs
worked by electricity. was ihS'aA n
that is free from dampness, Tree -"
the waste of single pound OIL e',e's ~
Immediately clean and perfect III
regulation of temperature. WIN sy
refrigerating plant not only .,,r,
labor Of harvesting and daily nau Oa,sr
of ice eliminated, but the '..,,
achieves the ideal means of prese.,, .as
many of his products through Pe'' Il,
of low prices until such time az I'm
advance in the markets enape' IN.
to sell at the highest rates, often IA M.
BILE what he would have received VIZ
out it.
A small motor drives the po .1..t
ASKING machine and the pasteu''s 81.
apparatus, and, twice a day, Z.
the milking machine on two cows ~
time and enables one man to at'e. ,r,th
two or three machines at once. N
a milking machine properly CARE -
as to the details of cleanliness ~
single germ can possibly invaas n
milk supply. because. from the IN ~
starts from the udder until II y
the Theoretically sealed pail III 4
breath of air comes in contact ."A'
The incubator and brooder a.e :
heated by electricity. .,ma-
Electricity sweeps the floors pn ..sstit
tically and makes light OF that Il
back breaking joy with the osc,,1a
turns the interior of the la.r,.es
from an oyer at o'clock OF 9 su n...ns(
afternoon into cool paradise oy n IA
of the electric fans. and warm a
house in winter by means OF electi sell.
diators. It washes the clothes e nan
hut a good deal more mercifuliy m
the wet wash laundry It also - N
cooking, ironing. sewing ana n