Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1913-09-25
ON
THE FARM
POSSIBILITIES OF GEN.
GRATING POWER FOR STOR-
AGE BATTERY.

| One of the important recent bulle-
tins issued by the state agricultural
college relates to windmill electric
lighting and power. Any farmer,
teacher or student may have this bull
letin mailed free of charge upon ap-
plioation. The bulletin is prepared
! by Wallace Manikowski, and is No.
105. President Worst in speaking of
i the subject of the use of electricity
on the farm, says:
1.-The economical use of electricity
on the farm for producing light and
| power has long remained mooted
question. The best evidence in proof
! of such use of electricity on the farm,
however, is the fact that it is being
so used. The purpose of the investi-
cations is to enable the well-to-do
farmer to use the windmill and stor-
age battery to furnish the necessary
current to light his house and farm
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for stock or to charge the pressure
tank, grind feed for the farm animals,
churn, wash the family clothing, etc.,
| thus dispensing with much of the do
mestic drudgery and at the same time
adding to the farmstead features of
considerable interest, especially to
the young people.
! "1t is evident that the rural home
must be made desirable place to
live and work and also it must be
| invested with things interesting as
well as useful and labor saving, if
country boys and girls are to be kept
on the farm. Electricity, economi-
cally generated and safely applied for
the purpose of furnishing light and
power, will go a long way toward
making the rural home more attrac-
tive, as we'll as affording an outlet for
the exercise of the farmers ingenuity
in applying the power thus generated
where it is most needed" :.
The preface to the bulletin says:
"The use of a windmill for electric
lighting and power purposes is possi-
BILE in almost any part Of the United
Estates. "A we'll designed, equipment,
together with IA or 16-foot wind
mill, will generate enough electricity
to generate storage battery. BY
this means current can be used to do
the pumping, washing, churning, to
separate the milk, and to light
house of sufficient size to accommo-
| date fifteen persons, and light all sta
bles and outbuildings necessary for a
farm of 1900 acres or more. With
storage battery it is possible to ac-
cumulate supply of electricity suffi-
cient to extend over periods of at
mospheric quiet of from two to ten.
days duration, depending. upon the
size of the storage battery. During
periods when the wind blows continu-
ously, as it frequently does in the GEN.
! trail states, electricity can be used for
F.: ironing, cooking, and many other pur-
poses too numerous to mention. Not
only are these things possible, but
they are an established fact. The
windmill electric lighting and power
plant described in this thesis is one
that has been in successful operation
for two years. 1t has done and 10
doing all that is herein stated, and is
usually operated by the women of the
family.
"such a power plant will cost but
little more than gasoline engine
electric lighting and power outfit of
similar capacity"
The contents deal with the need OF
electricity on the farm, both to the
farmer and to the farmers wife, and
attempts to sclve the problem. A
successful windmill electric lighting
and power plant is said to be on the
Manikowske pure seed farm, Moore
ton, N. D. The bulletin deals with
how success was attained, the diff
culties overcome, structural descrip-
ton, principles to lie kept in mind,
the economic value of the windmill
az q source of power, the power avail
able from a 16-foot wheel in 1912,
the cost of generating electricity by
gasoline and wind power, the uses OF
electricity on the farm. etc.
an increase in production, porter
house steak will be selling at II
pound In 1928.
This is believed to be an overesti-
mate or exaggeration of the POSSIBLE