Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-09-02

meat weary all tine soiiu substance
will be destroyed by bacteria. and the
water that flows out at the lower end
can be disposed Of through tile drain
The entire cost of water system srch
as the one described, with the com
pressed air tank, together with the
sewage disposal plant. need not 1T
much more than $3.50.
The cheapest method of lighting the
farmhouse is by acetylene gas. This
gas is generated by machine in the
cellar and can be piped to all the
rooms and to the barn. If desired it
can be used also for cooking. The
average cost of installing an acetylene
plant is about 5000. This includes
costs little to run an acetylene plant
after it is once in. The average cost Is
about a cent for sixteen candle pow
er light for four hours. Acetylene is
the nearest like 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
can be lighted by merely turning
button.
By going to a little more expense
electric light can be had on the farm.
If gasoline engine is already at hand
the total cost of installing an electric
plant, with lights in house and barn,
need not be more than 1915.
A few electric fans will make the
house comfortable in hot weather
! One convenience of the city. ice. is still
lacking. The way the ice problem is
most satisfactorily handled in the
country is for half dozen neighbors
to build a cooperative icehouse. The
men club together and fill it in the
winter, and a plentiful supply of ice is
at hand all through the summer. With
a small additional expense cold stor-
age room can be built in connection
with the icehouse for keeping meat,
poultry, eggs and fruit. In number
of communities cooperative fresh
meat societies are successfully run.
The members take turns killing beef
or a hog, and fresh meat is supplied
all through the year at much less cost
than it could be obtained in the city.
The cost of heating system, a wash
room, a vacuum cleaner, a hot water
attachment and other devices of that
sort is the same in the country as in
the city. The cost of the water and
sewage system in the country is about
nHn Of for
system in the country is much less
than the cost of city water.
An electric lighting system for the
farm will cost from 1915 up. The life
of such system can be figured safely
at twenty years. The storage batteries
will not last so long. but the rest of
the apparatus will last longer. This
would mean an annual depreciation of
$1S15. Interest at 6 per cent would
amount to $3.50. The cost of operat-
ing the plant will depend. of course,
on the amount of electricity used. The
cost for lighting the average farm
house and barn for a year and furnish
ing electricity for sundry other pur-
poses will not average more than $40
for gasoline. This makes the total cost
for electricity $41.25 year. In the
city the average cost for electricity
for an eight room house is about $50 a
year.
The cost of an icehouse and of put
ing up ice varies so much with condi-
lions that it is hard to give any gen
eral figures. These can easily be OBJ
tanned for any particular locality. how