Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1915-01-28
ELECTRICITY USED
ON MANY FARMS
Missouri Farmers Enjoy all the
Luxuries Found in a Mod
ern City Home.
POWER USED N DIARIES ALSO
Motors Supply Power for Running
Separators and to Force Water
Through Buildings.
POWER USED N OAIR|ES ALSO

From Bay County, Missouri, comes
an interesting account OF how electric
ity has been put to many uses. Two
dairy farms and one stock farm have
direct connection with the plant of the
Excelsior Springs Water, Gas & Elec.
tric Company, which furnishes not
only the electricity for power and light
in the city of Excelsior Springs, but
supplies current to towns nine miles
northeast, fourteen miles west and
nine miles south. The three electrical.
ly equipped farms have their own
power lines, the company building the
branches, putting in all the necessary
equipment and allowing the owners OF
the farms to pay their part of the in
stallation cost in monthly payments,
distributed over long period and add
ed to the power bills.
A 127 acre dairy farm owned by ].
II. Ford has complete and up-to.date
electric light, power and water works
system. The fifteen horsepower motor
is located in the cooling room of the
milking barn and within a few feet of
the silo. The motor can be belted di-
rectly to the silage cutter and blower
for filling the suo, or the circular saw.
which is a drudgery saver in cutting
the great amount Of wood used on a
farm. The house, barns and sheds are
wired for electric lights, eliminating
the great fire risk of use of lanterns
and coal oil lamps. The motor is also
connected to counter shaft for run
ming vacuum pump, which operates
two milking machines. For conven-
ience in milking, tie barn piping has
connection and valve at each pair of
stanchions, thus enabling the operator
to milk any two cows at one time.
The milking machines pump the milk
through tubing into an aluminium con-
tainer, from which 1t Is strained into
the cans for delivery and Immediately
cooled in running water before send
ing into town.
Water sufficient for use wherever 1t
is needed is obtained from a spring on
level thirty feet lower than the house
and barn. The spring is inclosed in
concrete basin and practically freeze
proof tankhouse erected over it. A
branch from the main power line runs
from the barn to the springhouse and
operates motor driving pump which
automatically keeps the pressure in a
100 gallon compression tank at thirty,
five pounds to the square inch. From
this tank water is piped to the house.
milkhouse, barns, dooryard and pas
lures, where hydrants make fresh
water for domestic uses and for stock
water always available and at pres
sure sufficient for adequate fire pro-
lection. II e
The dairy farm owned by Jesse VIII
liams has approximately the same elec-
trio power and light equipment, with
the addition of an electric washing ma
chine for the farmhouse.
Thirty,six cows are MIXED at each
of the dairies. electric mixers doing
the work, which is supery ised by two
men. Milking that number of cows re-
quires only an hour and twenty min
rtes. The cows ara so well satisfied
, with the machine that they bitterly re-
sent any attempt al hand milking. vii.
liams figures that the machines save
him an average of $1OO month in
time and labor.
At the Ard-Righ stock farm, where
DR.. S. ID. Henry lives. electricity lights
the eight-room house and sends water
from cisterns to al parts Of 1t. Also,
an electric motor runs the wood saw.
cuts silage, fills the silo, grinds feed
and runs the machine threshing the
wheat, oats, rye and millet from $50
acres of those crops.
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