The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1918-09-20
Electricity On The Farm Mean.
Extra Productive Working Hours

Electricity On The Farm Means
Extra Productive Working Hours.
How many working hours per year
are necessary to keep your farm up
to its normal production
If its an average size farm-140
aeres-it will require from 1000 to
5000 hours for three workers-the
owner or manager. hired man and the
farmers wife.
If it is your desire and purpose to
increase the production on your farm,
it will be necessary to increase the
number of working hours, or to make
some of these hours count" for
more than they would ordinarily.
Or it may be that you are finding
it necessary to get along without the
hired man, as many others are doing
That means reduction of some
300 to $500 working hours mot
counting the hired man for full
year, and production must be lowered
or again some way must be found to
make the hours count" for more than
usual.
While we do not always stop Io
think of it, we have been trying for
years to make the hours count"
for more on the farm, III other words
to increase the efficiency of the
workers It is to this end that we
have come to use improved maehin-
cry to replace hand labor.
One of the most modern aids to
the farmer and his household Is cleo
trieity In most instances this is
secured from a private electric plant
installed on the farmers own prem
Uses, because most farm homes are
beyond the reach of the central pow
er station.
Usually the farmer secures an cleo
trio plant with the idea of getting the
most of the benefit from the cleo
trie light And it IS very con
siderable benefit, for aside from the
pleasure and satisfaction Of having
the most modern form of home-light-
ing. there is considerable saving Of
time and labor about the house and
barn when the kerosene lamps and
lantern are put away and light =
obtained just by turning a switch.
If this saving is only one-half hour
day, that is $50 hours a year saved
to be added to the productive work
ing time.
1t is in the use of electric power,
however, that the most striking
examples of time and labor saving
are found
Wherever there is a machine about
the premises that someone ordlnar-
lily must turn with crank, that ma
chine can be run with a small motor
at saving of time and labor that
every farmer is in duty bound to
consider at the present time.
Take the churn, cream separator,
washing machine. With an electric
motor there will be saving, on the
average, of from 212 to 312 hours a
week from each of these machines.
Electricity from the farmers own
plant to run these machines will cost
no more than two cents an hour;
They can all be run by the same small
portable motor and nine more hours
week, let US say, can be saved Tor
necessary hand labor Nine hours
week are 468 hours more year to
be devoted to productive work
II the farm dairy herd IS MIXED
with milking machine, that too can
be run with electricity, with mini
mum of care and attention and win
saving of an hour or more TOR the
milking. So let's add to the an
nual saving at least 300 hours on
account of the milking machine.
Then there are machines used oc-
, casionally. like the grihdstone,, the
tanning mill, horse clippers or sheep
shears, sausage grinder ana others
That the farmer will be able To op,,
crate, the saving from which would
easily total another 100 hours year,
One of the most striking instances
: of time and labor saVlng IS foahd
, where water pressure system Is OPP
Grated by means of an electro motor
This is an ABSOLUTELY automatic sys
ten. in which the motor runs Wheh
tho nrassure in the tank goes down
in which water IS maintained AT d
nressure sufficient to force water
through pipes to faucets all a'oae 'he
Epremlses
. comnlete household service, kitchen
bath and landry, without any oil inc
{ laborious pumping and CARRYING tol
watering the stock wlIkoGt pumping
for fire protection, for all the many
uses that one finds for water abe Ut
the farm. all this with every bit OF the
Nase and convenience that are enjoyed
in any modern city property
For the average farm. there IS
/ possible time and labor SAVING OF tWo
hours a day where n modern w'tei
system electrically operated Is used
Two hours day is another 150 hours
honrs year to be added to ouH an
nual saving. .;,o
: There are other ways u SAVING
about the farm home by means oil
electricity, such as electric heat ioi
the flat iron on ironing day, the OPP
Grafton of little grinders and the IKE
but the total of the items mentioned
runs up to surprising fgures--itle
e hours a year. !
r Over seventeen hundred hours to Dc
Y added to the productive working TIME
y on the average farm; equal TO three
: fourths of the time of hired mar
e for the seven or eight months ne Il
; actively employed on the farm
: When you get your newspaper you
f look with tremendous interest TO Sc,
o what our boys are doing "0ver There
t Wouldn't it discourage you to get IN
!, idea that they were not dong ever
a thing they could to insure victory
i If they are to be kept IN the fui
5 flush of hope and courage, they mus
know that all our resources are belni
Al EMPLOYED as never before IN their be
e hall. They must not have any reaso'
IS TO feel that the folks back home ar
y failing in any particular to hold u
their hands, to keep them fed an