Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-08-31
Electric Light and
Power on the Farm

OIlS VI the Dlg uIllculLleS eA-
perienced by the American farm
er is the frequent shortage of
labor, and for this reason his
greatest need lies in the utiliza-
ton of every possible labor saw
ing device.
Undoubtedly electricity is the
greatest single labor saving a.
gency that the farmer can use.
Electric power can be made to
do great many different kinds
of work, both productive and
non-productive. And electric
light too is time and labor saver. |
The following are some of the
ways in which electric power will
save time:
First-It will pump water.
Fully automatic electric pumps,
for both deep and shallow wells,
can be installed on any farm.
Their use will save all the time
and work of pumping and carry
ing water for house and barn.
Second-It will churn butter.
A 16 h. p. electric motor can
e 4sily operate churn. Of course
the time taken for churning va
ries greatly, but one-half hour
per day is a conservative average
and this amount will be saved by
the use of electricity for this pur-
pose.
Third-It will separate cream.
Here again 1-6 h. p. motor can
be used to save the time required
to perform this work each day.
Fourth-It will turn the grind
stone. A 1-6 h. p. motor belted
to a pulley on the grind stone
! will save the time of one man for
most grinding. During the har-
vest season this saving is very
large.
| Fifth--It will run the milking
machine. A I to J h. p. motor
can be used for this purpose and
| will enable one or two men to do
the work of four.
II Sixth-It will run washing
| machine. Here it reduces the
= time necessary for the washing
= by about one-half and in addition
i makes the work much lighter.
Seventh-It will heat an cleo
trio iron. The advantage gained
here is principally through the
much greater convenience of iron
ing with an electric iron. The
| saving, however, will be consid-
| cradle.
II Eighth-It will run a vacuum
sweeper. Much more thorough
work can be done and at least an
hour per week will be saved.
Ninth-It will run an electric
= fan. In many cases electric power
: allows one man to do the work of
n two, releasing one for other pro-
? ductive work. In other cases it
shortens the time taken for a
piece of work and releases the
operator sooner for other work,
and in all cases it, at least, saves
= effort for work where power can
not be used.
The use of electric light will
save time as follows:
First-It will make it possible
to use every daylight hour for
field work, doing the necessary
inside work by electric light.
Second-It will reduce the time
necessary for doing the chores
by one-half, as compared with the
time required when lanterns are
used.
Third-It will save the time
formerly taken to clean and fill
coal-oil lamps and lanterns.
1t may seem at first glance that
the savings effected by the use
of electric light and power are
small, but if the reader will con-
slider all the savings so effected
he will find that many hours per
week can be saved by the use of
electric light and power and the
equipment that goes with it.
If the American farmer is to
meet the demands which are i'm
: posed upon him at this time. and