The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-07-11

most of the benefit from the cleo
trio light. And it very consider
able benefit for aside from the pleas
ure and satisfaction of having the
most modern form of home lighting,
there is considerable saving of time
and labor about the house and barn
when the kerosene lamps and lantern
are put away and light is obtained
just by turning switch. If this
saving is only one-half hour a day,
that is 1870 hours a year saved, to be
added to the productive working time.
1t is in the use of electric power,
however, that the most striking ex-
amples of time and labor saving are
found.
Take the churn, cream separator,
washing machine. With an electric
motor there will be a saving, on the
average, of from to hours week
from each of these machines. They
can all be run by the same small port
able motor and nine hours week,
let US say, can be saved for necessary
hand labor. Nine hours week are
468 hours more year to be devoted
to productive work.
Then there are machines used &C.
casionally like the grindstone, the
tanning mill, horse clippers or sheep
shears, sausage grinder and others
that the farmer will be able to oper-
ate, the saving from which would east
ly total another 100 hours a year.
One of the most striking instances
of time and labor saving is found
where water pressure system is op-
Grated by means of an electric mot
or. This is an absolutely automatic
system, in which the motor runs when
the pressure in the tank goes down
and in which water is maintained at
a pressure sufficient to force water
through pipes to faucets all about the
premises.
Thus one can have water plped Tor
complete household service, Kitchen
bath and laundry, without any Of the
laborious pumping and carrying, for
watering the stock without any pump.
ing, for fire protection, for all the
MANY uses that one finds for water
about the farm, all this with every bit
of the ease and convenience that are
enioyed in any modern city property
For the average farm there is
POSSIBLE time and labor saving of two
hours a day where modern water
system electrically operated is used
Two hours day is another 73O hours
a year to be added to our annual saw
ing.
about the farm home by means OF TIM
use of electricity, such as electric hea
for the flat iron on ironing day, tn
operation of little grinders and tn
like, but the total of the items men
toned runs up to surprising figures
1743 hours year:
Over seventeen hundred hours tt
be added to the productive working
time on the average farm; equa! II
three fourths of the time OF hlre'
man for the seven or eight months NJ
is actively employed on the farm.
When you get your newspaper yo'
look with tremendous interest to SCI
what our boys are doing "Ove
There. Wouldn't it discourage yo'
to get the idea that they were no
doing everything they could to lnsur
victory?
If they are to be kept in the full
flush of hope and courage, they mus
know that all our resources are be
ing employed as never before IN thel
behalf. They must not have any rea
son to feel that the folks back hom
are failing in any particular to hol
up their hands, to keep them fed am
clothed and in every way supported II
this time of their sacrifice.
The farmer who knows that the EN-
ployment of modern equipment, drlv
en- by electricity can add seventeen
hundred working hours to the tim
now available on a farm, certalnl!
owes it to himself and to our soldier
to make thorough investigation AM
find out just what electricity woul'
do to make the hours count" NOR
for him and to increase the produc