The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-07-08

| various distributing lines, JranSIOrm-
ers for lowering the voltage or pres
| sure, and the motor-generating sets
to change the alternating current
from the Little Chazy power station
into direct current for farm use.
There Is also a storage battery, so
that the electricity need not stop even
If some accident should happen to
the generating sources. This battery,
with capacity of 900 ampere hours,
is also used as "balancer" to keep
the voltage steady, and for lighting
and power after $50 p. m. at which
time the hydro-electric plants are
shut down for the night. This storage
battery is merely reservoir for stor-
ing electricity for future use. The
complete equipment of this plant was
designed by the General Electric COM
pany.
At Hearts Delight farm the wiring
from building is all conceal
ed underground in conduits. Besides
the lighting of the homes and farm
buildings with hundreds of incandes-
ent lamps, the yards and roadways
are lighted with flaming arc lamps.
There are numerous motors on the
place, ranging all the way from the
tiny fellow that grinds the food for
the growing trout to the twenty-five
, horse power motor which prepares
| feed for the horses and cattle. In the
main dairy barn ten horse power
| motor unloads and handles the hay.
With this apparatus ton of hay may
be unloaded and stored in either end
| of the large loft by two men in less
| than five minutes. On the main floor
| of this barn is feed cutting machine
for preparing fodder for the cattle,
run by smaller motor, and in the
dairy section a 1 Y horsepower mo-
tor operates the vacuum pump for
the milking machines. There are five
milking machines in use, milking ten
| cows at the same time, the suction
being supplied by an automatic value
on each device, initiating perfectly the
effect of hand milking, with the added
assurance of absolute cleanliness, as
the machines are all enclosed. After
being tested the milk is run through
a motor driven separator in the milk
room on the same floor and the cream
| taken to the butter making section.
his cream is 'ripened" in covered
tank before it is churned by electric
power. Near the dairy is an electric
ice-making plant and refrigerator
with a capacity of twenty tons of ice
every "a hours, the ammonia and
brine being operated by electric pow
err. This ice Is used for domestic
purposes, for cold storage and for
shipping perishable products. The
large motor used to drive the grist
mill in another building is so arrang-
ed that it can be eradily taken into
the fields for threshing proposes. In
all the other buildings where power
is required, there you will find busy
little electric motor doing the work
that formerly had to be done by hand,
horse or steam power. In the house
the laundry has been electrified with
motor driven washing machines,
wringers, centrifugal dryers, mangles
and electric flatirons. Among the 9TH
err auxiliary electric devices at the
cottage are an electric piano, COM
plete electric heating and cooking de-
vices, meat chopper, buffer and grind
ers, motor driven ice cream freezer
and numerous electric fans. On top
of one of the fire tank towers is an
electrical instrument which automati-
cally records on chart in the house
a continuous record of the speed and
direction of the wind, the amount of
moisture in the air and the precipita-
ton.
In the fish hatchery a small motor
runs the grinding machine which pre-
pares the food for the trout confined
in small concrete ponds. A seven
motor drives centrifu-
gal pump, automatically maintaining
a large supply of spring water in a
steel tower tank for use in the refrig-
orator plant. Water for fire protec-
ton is forced by two hydraulic rams
10 10000 gallon tank 100 feet
lbove ground on steel tower. There
S also a complete sausage making
plant, including meat cutter and
mixing machine driven by four
horse power motor. which also sup
plies power to the machine which pre-
,ares the waste bone and gristle for
chicken feed.
The time and labor saved, the in
'ured safety and sanitation, the we'll
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