Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-03-05
ELECTRICITY E! has
MANY USES ON FARMS
DAYS OF: THE OLD FASHIONED
HIRED MAN SEEM TO BE
III
NUMBERED
All Departments Of Farm Work are
Affected by Many Inventions That
are Being Made

The days of the old fashioned hired
man are numbered. Electricity is
driving him out. Ask any farmer if
he has ever had trouble with his hired
man, and he will gaze at you, speech
less with indignation. The short
comings of the hired man have been
a fruitful topic Of humor in the
American comic periodicals ever
since he has existed as an institution.
With the perfecting of farming
machinery, mechanical energy is dis.
placing manual labor and the plough
horse by leaps and bounds. Electrici-
ty is the best hired man. 1t demands
no days off,, and never abuses the
stock. 1t does Not eat you out OF
house and home, and it's fixed charges
are far less than those of the average
hired man. A complete electrical
outfit will do the work of many hired
men and horses, and never get tired.
1t is as easy to take care of as type
writer, requiring only a periodic OIL
ing. Present day motors are of such
solid and simple construction that the
operator need have no special knowl-
edge in order to operate them. It is
simply necessary to close the service
switch to set them in motion, and to
open it to stop the motors.
At the recent land show, held in
New York City, the Croker Wheeler
company undertook to show, with the
cooperation of manufacturers of farm
ing machinery, just what can be done
with electricity on a farm. The gen.
Grating equipment consisted Of
Crocked-Wheeler generator driven by
an oil engine, and this is the list of
devices which the outfit of motors
would drive:
1. The farmers water supply was
furnished by an automatic pump, to
the confusion of the old oaken buck
ct.
2. The irrigating department was
equipped with centrifugal pump,
which could also be used at any re-
quired pressure in case of fire.
8. A refrigerating machine, milk
cooler, cream separator, automatic
churn and butter worker, bottle wash
er, even an icecream freezer for Sun
day dinner, were installed with separ-
ate motors in the diaries. Electric
motors throw no dust, and are far
more sanitary than belts and shaft
ing for dairy work.
4. An electric truck provided for
the transportation.
5 A large threshing machine, with
motor drive. illustrated what could
be accomplished by the application of
motors to outdoor machinery.
6. Corn shelters and feed chop
pers equipped with individual motors
showed how the smaller machines
may be operated.
7. Types of laundry machinery
driven by individual motors, elimin-
ated the horrors of wash.day.
8. An electrically driven milking
machine abolished the memory OF
aching fingers.
9. A silo with an accompanying
motor driven silo filler was exhibited.
10. A sheep shearer, electrically
driven through a flexible shaft, was
another variation OF electricity's ac-
complishments. This device could al
so be used for grooming cattle or
horses.
II. Ventilating fans, household
equipment. cooking devices and the
supplanting Of the old-dripping Ian
tern by electric lights or an electric
torch completed this unique exhibit.
In practically every place where
muscular energy has hitherto been
expended on the farm. all.prevailing
electricity is taking it's place. A
small motor driven hoist will put a
load of hay into the barn more quick.
ly than the stoutest and most consci-
entious hired man working with a
horse and continue to do it for twenty
years. In fact the use of electricity
is such a constant source of economy
that a complete plant soon pays for
itself, and after all the money which
would have been spent for manual
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