The Dolores star., 1919-05-16

pass the examination for private in
Camp Meade, Maryland.
The Ogletree children are taking the
eigth grade examination at the Mesa
school house.
Mr.. Williams came up from Toawac
to visit his family Saturday returning
Sunday
Orval Mulnix is helping his grand
father, W. P. Kuykendall, put in crops.
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 you have an averaged sized farm
-lIO acres-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 in
| crease the production on your farm, it
will be necessary to increase the num-
Der of working hours, or 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 23OO
/ to 25 working hours mot counting the
hired man for the full year, and
production must be lowered or again
some way must be found to make the
hours count for more than usual.
We have been trying for years to
make the hours Count" for more on
the farm. 1t is to this end that we
have come to use improved machinery
to replace hand labor.
One of the most modern aids to the
farmer and his household is electricity.
In most instances this is secured from
a private electric plant installed on the
farmers own premises, because most
farm homes are beyond the reach of
the central power station.
Usually the farmer secures an cleo
tric plant with the idea of getting most
benefit from electric light. And it
is very considerable benefit, for aside
from the pleasure and satisfaction of
having the most modern form of home
lighting there is a considerable saving
of time and labor about the house and
barn when the kerosene lamps and
lantern are put away and light is OBJ
tained just by turning switch. If
this saving is only one-half hour day,
that is $50 hours 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.
Wherever there is machine about
the premises that someone ordinarily
must turn with crank, that machine
can be run with small electric motor
at a saving of time and labor.
The churn, cream separator and
washing machine can all be run by the
same small portable motor, with cleo
tricity from the farmers own plant, at
a cost of about 2 cents an hour This
will mean a saving of from q to 81
hours a week for each machine or 9
hours week or 468 hours a year to be
devoted to productive work.
Then there are other machines used
occasionally, like the grndstone, fan
ming mill, horse clippers or sheep
shears, sausage grinder, etc, the
saving from which would easily total
another 100 hours year.
One of the most striking instances of
time and labor saving is found where
a water pressure system is operated by
means of an electric motor 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 pressure suf-
ficient to force water through pipes to
faucets all about the premises.
Thus one can have water piped for
complete household service, kitchen,
bath and laundry, and watering stock
without the laborious pumping and
Carrying. Thus saving another hours
day or 730 hours a year, besides af
fording fire protection and all the con-
venlences of any modern city property.
There are other ways of saving about
the farm home by means of the use of
electricity, such as electric heat for the
flat iron on iron day, but the total of
the items mentioned runs up to sur
prlsing figures -1743 hours year.
Over seventeen hundred hours to he
added to the productive working time
on the average farm. Equal to three
fourths of the time of hired man for
the seven or eight months he is ac-
lively employed on the farm.