Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1910-09-22

hard or soft, 81 always at hand for
use in the kitchen. The dishes can be
piled into the INK and washed In a.
mort half the time It. took previously.
A wash room with permanent tubs
can be provided in the cellar. The
washing machine can be run with the
gasoline engine or with water mo-
tor While a room Of this kind may
not make washing exactly pleasure.
! 1t will reduce the labor more than
half With little planning q small
tank can be arranged in the kitchen,
SO that all the water that 10 pumped
for the stock will pass through IT. This
IN almost 40 good az an icebox.
A good bath and toilet room is a
great convenience to all the family. A
shower bath In one corner of the barn
win be greatly appreciated by the
boys at the close Of q hot days work.
The wastes from the kitchen sink
and from the wash room can be run
into tile and taken away. For the
wastes from the toilet room a sewage
disposal plant will have to be pro-
vided. The most convenient method Is
the septic tank. This is an under.
ground cement lined brick tank d.
vided into two compartments. AS one
compartment fills 1t over6ows into the
next Nearly all the solid substance
will be destroyed by bacteria. and the
water that flows out at the lower end
can be disposed Of through Q TIE draip.l
The entire cost Of water system such
as the ono ldssctjbap, with the COM
pre- ssed air tank, together with the
sewage disposal plant need not be
much more than $3.50.
NJ The cheapest method Of lighting tho
! FARMHOUSE is by aeetylene gas. This
! gas IS generated BY a machine in the
| eeliaf and can be- 'piped ITO ali 2 the
rooms land to the ibarn. III sdesired)i 10
can be used also q for n cooking, The
average, cost. of installing an acetylene.
plant is abont' $500. This includes
fights in the barn and in the yard. ut
costs little ntoi run IAN acetylene plant
after it is once in. + The average cost is'
about a cent for a sixteen candle, pow
,er light for four hours. Acetylene is
the nearest IKE daylight of any Kind
| Of artificial light and is incomparably
better than the old fashioned oil lamp.
The neWer. types of acetylene lamp are
| provided with a battery, SO that they
cab, be lighted by merely turning a
Button. 7pJt's Woo = 1o' WV,Vl$ hais
! siBy going to a1lithe more0 expense,
cel9 ctric light can be had on the farpy
lila gasoline engine is already at hand
the total cost of installing an electric
plant with lights Id house and barn,
need, not be more than, $375 ~ batt-,tl
w a few, ,electric. fans will make, the
house Comfortable In hot weather.
One c6n'y7eniehee Of the city, ice. isstiile
Ia eklAggt The way the ice problem is !
mpstn satisfactorily lohandled 4, in the
lcountry is for half a dozen neighbors
to build q cooperative icehouse. The
men club together and fill IT in the
winter. and u plentiful supply of ice is
at hand all through the summer. With
small additional expense a cold stor-
age room can be built in connection
with the icehouse for keeping meat,
poultry, eggs and fruit. In a number
Of Communities cooperative "A fresh
meat societies are successfully run.
The members take turns killing a beef
or a. hog, and fresh meat is supplied.
an through theeyear at much less cost
thansit could be obtained Infthe cityss
The cost of heating SYSTEM wash
room, a vacuum cleaner, "a hot water
attaehment and other deTifAs kdf that
s6rtsls the same in the country as in
tAeaeity. The cost, Of the water and
sewage system lathe oDudtr1 is about,
$3.50 The cost sefeoperat3ng Va water.
system in ---the.--eountry is much Hess
than the cost of NtYr9ater- A0vou \
J, "a electric fighting system for ctfei
farm will cost ffom)SS72 an TAeltneC
OF Such a system can be figured safely,
at twenty years. The storage 'battefiess
Twill not last so long, but the rest of
theEapparatus will last longer. This
would mean an annual depreciation OF
$1S.75. interest ar 9 per cent would
amount to S22. so. Dhe5eost of Boperat-
ing the plant will depend, Of course
ON The amount of electricity used. The
cost for lighting the average farm,
,hohse and barn for year and furnish
Ing electricity for sundry other ppr-
poses will not average more thanS$4osa
fbE gasoline. This makes the total cost
f e lice s$syEn s y IpIes
S gSh an 'isRj 8EY0%T 48Vf1' IT8p B$S50 b
z The cost Of an icehouse and Of put
ing up ice varies so much with condi-
,H@Ps that it is hard to give any gen.
-'efm figures. These can easily be OBJ
FtAhed for any particular locAffty, hSK-
III He[ SsaH N-1$!l ON D.
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