The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-07-09

| Gated the switchboards, from which the
electricity is controlled over the various
| distributing lines, transformers for low
ering the voltage or pressure, and the
| motor generating sets to change the
alternating current from the Little
| Chazy power station into direct cur
rent 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 a capac-
| ity of 500 ampere hours, is also used as
a "balancer" to keep the voltage steady,
and for lighting and power after $3.50
p. m, at which time the hydro electric
plants are shut down for the night
This storage battery Is merely reser-
voir for storing electricity for future
use. The complete equipment of this
| plant was designed by the General
Electric Co.
AT Hearts Delight farm the wiring
from building to building is all con-
| cealed underground in conduits. Be-
| sides the lighting of the homes and
| farm buildings with hundreds Of in
| candescent lamps, the yards and road
ways 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 a ten horse power motor
unloads and handles the hay. With
this apparatus ton Of hay may be I'M
loaded and stored in either end of the
| large loft by two men in less than Ave
minutes. On the main floor of this barn
| is feed cutting machine for prepar-
ing fodder for the cattle, run by a
smaller motor, and in the dairy sec
| ton a one and one-half horse power
| motor operates the vacuum pump for
the milking machines. There are five
| milking machines in use milking ten
cows at the same time, the suction be-
Ing supplied by an automatic valve on
each device, initiating perfectly the eff
feet 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.
This cream is "ripened" in a covered
tank before it is churned by electric
power. Near the dairy is an electric
ice-making plant and refrigerator with
capacity of twenty tons Of ice every
twenty four hours, the ammonia and
brine being operated by electric power.
This ice Is used for domestic purposes,
for cold storage and for shipping per-
ishable products. The large motor used
to drive the grist mill in another build
ing is so arranged that it can be readi-
ly taken into the fields for threshing
purposes. 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 f1atirons. Among the 9TH
er auxiliary electric devices at the cot
tage are an electric piano, complete
electric heating and cooking devices,
meat choppers, buffer and grinders, mo-
tor driven ice cream freezer and nu-
merous electric fans. On top of one
Of the fire tank towers is an electrical
instrument which automatically records
on a chart in the house a continuous
record Of the speed and direction Of
the wind, the amount of moisture in
the air and the precipitation.
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
horse power motor drives a .centrif1-
gal pump, automatically maintaining a
large supply of spring water in a steel
tower tank for use in the refrigerator
plant. Water for fire protection is
forced by two hydraulic rams to a sc.
600 gallon tank 100 feet above ground
on steel tower. There Is also a com
plete sausage making plant, including
meat cutter and mixing machine
driven by a four horse power motor,
which also supplies power to the ma
chine which prepares the waste bone
and gristle for chicken feed.
The time and labor saved, the insured
safety and sanitation, the well-lighted
buildings, express more eloquently
than mere words the enormous value
VI THIS elSCLlC service.
Electricity is the genie which ac-
complishes the hard work and the won
ders about this model farm. 1t does
hundred things and at every hand one
is met with new and novel application
Of this mysterious force. The plant is
as perfect as modern engineering meth
DDS can devise and has been in success
full operation for several years, each
months record showing the vast
amount of labor saved by Harvesting
the streams and the electrical con-
veniences enjoyed by those who live
on the country estate. BY night the
buildings and the yards are ablaze with
electric lights and by day the buildings
hum with the busy motors doing the
work Of scores OF hired men. This
plant, the most perfect of it's kind in
existence, cost thousands of dollars, and
vet 1t can truthfully be said to be
paying investment, the annual cost of
maintenance being far below the actual
saving in labor and former costs for
other and inferior power and light.
1--WE have had electric service for
period of about three years." said the
foreman enthusiastically, land I think
we have proven that the electric motor
can be successfully and economically
applied to all the machinery an a farm.
The electrical machinery is especially
long lived and nrr vearI1, t,fIlr e.. -