The vidette., 1919-10-16
ELECTRICITY BEST OF
FARM SERVANTS
Thousands Gf Farm Homes Already
Have Electric Plants. Satisfied
Users sfnflusncs Farmers in
Buying.

A traveller through the country to-
day notices one thing more than any
other, and that is the number OF
farms where electric service is now
used.
A few years ago, three or four at
most, the coal-oil lantern and lamp
and the long handled wooden pump,
which stood in the barnyard, and
froze up solid every winter, were
symbols of the farm, just as the
street car and the department store
are symbols of the city. With the
farm were associated ideas of old
fashioned ways of doing things, OF
hard work and long hours.
But what change has taken place !
Drive out into the country at night
and look at the farm houses you pass.
In a great many of them, instead of
the dim glow that used to come from
one or two windows, or the bobbing
point of light that marked lantern
being carried up to the house from
the barn, you will see the whole place
brightly lighted. Drive into the barn
yard. Instead of waiting while some
one at the house lights lantern and
comes out. you'll suddenly find the
whole yard flooded with light from an
electric light on pole in the center
Of the yard, or perhaps on the corner
Of the barn. And when your host
, comes out you'll find he has turned on
the yard light from inside the house
/ Then he'll take you through the
house and barns and show you what
a difference electricity can make or
the farm.
! AS you go through the country you
will find surprisingly large number
of farms electrically equipped. And
nearly all of this equipment has been
put in within the past three or four
years. One manufacturer alone an
nounces over seventy-five thousand
satisfied users" a surprising fact. il
view of the farmers well-known ten.
dency to make long and thorough
investigation before he buys anything
in the way of farm equipment.
What, then, is the reason for this
rapid increase in the rural use oil
electricity? Simply this, that elec.
tricity has proved to be wonderfully
useful on the farm. Much more so
in fact, than in city homes.
Electric light is not only superior
to all Others as fight, but is much
more convenient, much safer, and, in
farm usage, saves q great amount of
time. The difference between turn
ing switch at the house and lighting
lantern has already been mentioned.
and this greater convenience is found
throughout. Upstairs lights can be
switched on from the lower hall, and
even the barn. may be lighted from
the house.
This convenience effects a great
saving of time The daily filling and
cleaning of lamps is no longer neces-
sary. There is no walking from the
harm to the house to get lantern.
Aud in the barn itself. It is found that
the well-placed electric lamps make
every movement surer and safer, saw
ing nearly half the time 4 used to
take to do the chores.
Electric light is. safer, too, particu-
lariy in the barn, where the hazard
of hre from an overturned lantern
was formerly very great.
But electric power on the farm is
even more useful than electric light.
An automatic water system will pump
every drop of water formerly pumped
by hand. supplying water unler pres /
sure at faucets all over the house and
barns. Electric motors will do the
separating. churning, wash
ng and sweeping, will turn the corn
'heller, tanning mill and grindstone.
electric irons, fans, toastefs and per-
:olators also make the household
work much easier.
All of this electric service Is en-