The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-05-02
!" Electrical Equipment
For The Farm. .

Power plant for farms or for use IL
rural districts which lay beyond tht
reach Of power lines, that is worthy
of the attention of every reader OF
this paper
There is no mistaking the Delco
Light equipment. 1t is manufacturer
| by company that has done Things
| The well known Delco-Starting
Lighting and Ignition which is serv'
ing on more than 100000 automo-
\ biles was invented by this company
The chief designer OF this lighting
plant had an important part in the
final completion of the Liberty Motor
and had incorporated into 1t the mer-
curry cooled valves which had been
SO successful i'm Delco-Light. And
now we have in our vicinity more
| than $50 of the Delco-Light Farm
systems that have been given 8
thorough trial and have not been
/ found wanting in any respect.
Electricity for the country has al
ways been a subject of much specula-
ton among the electrical engineers Of
the world. Transportation lines built
into the country have been found toe
expensive both to build and to kee[
/ in operation.
Much pioneer work has been done
toward making Independent electric
plants that might meet the require
ments of the average farm and coun-
try home and to come within a price
that would permit of its universal use
Electric service had been found tc
be of inestimable value in the cities
both for light and power. Tt is op-
Grating our most modern factories
the signal systems on our railroads
and in fact most Of the important
power service is now being carried on
| by electric current.
7 But all this has had little to do with
the farmer. He has watched and
| waited just as few years ago he
watched his city relatives and friends
being the user of motor cars and later
became the largest user of them him
self.
1t seems this is coming true of
electric service. He is beginning to
know that electricity will serve him
in dozen ways to the service ii
will give his city friends.
The farmer needs electric lights.
He needs them in his house, i'm his
barn, in all his outbuildings and
since they have come to be within
his reach he Is going to have them.
The farmer is the worlds producer.
His farm, the business i'm which he
is engaged represents the greater
portion of all the wealth of the world.
In recent years his financial position
has greatly strengthened but his pro-
ducing powers have been seriously
interfered with. He has not kept his
production on an equal pace with the
enormous and ever increasing demand
for his products. This condition is
largely due to shortage of farmers
and farm labor, which in turn is the
result of several causes. Too many
farmer boys and girls are going to
the city where better opportunities and
conditions await them. Many of
these could be kept On the farm if
farm conditions were reasonably i'm
| proved.
The shortage Of farm hands, which
has existed for number of years, is
likely to be made worse by the ter
rible destruction of life in Europe.
The eight-hour working day which
seems to be coming into general adop-
! ton is cutting down the productive
working hours of the farm as well
as that Of the industrial organizations
and the general trend of the times
seems to be higher wages with short
err hours.
! To meet these conditions better
methods must be adopted on farms
Labor-saving and time-saving devices
must be installed In fact, scientific
! farming as taught SO successfully
and with such practical results in our
state agricultural college, must be
| generally adopted, ard to do this
electrical equipment for many uses
becomes absolutely necessary.
| 1t is not only labor conditions that
lis bringing about these conditions for
improved living conditions, but the
realization on the part OF the farmer
and his family that If farm labor and
the sons and daughters of the. harm
are to be attracted to the tilling of
the soil the farm home must be put
on an equality with the city home.
| Conditions in SO many farm homes
have been wildly and accurately de-
scribed by many writer's who are
well known authorities on these sGb-
jects, and the following is quoted
from one of them: 1.-THE slender link
lof woman's endurance limits the
strength of the chain of farm living.
The work Oh the farmers wife Is not
only hard and exhausting, it is con-
tinuous and practically unvarying.
There is the same Juggling Of water
and Stops, the washing and ironing,
the sweeping and mending, the care
Of the children, and the everlasting
three meals a day. No other class
has derived 90 little from modern
progress and invention, in comfort
and, luxury, in relief from grinding
toll as the farmers wife,
Imagine, if you will, an average
farm home without modern improve
ments. Picture to yourself an aver
age farmers wife as she goes through
her daily routine. Follow every step
| from the time she starts the fire in
the frigid kitchen till she lays wearily
down the last pair Of mended stock
fings late at night.
THE IDEAL HOME now by magic
| transfers her in her sleep into a
house with just the plain conven-
fences; heating system; running
water, hot and cold; a bathroom; a
sanitary system OF sewage dis
posal; an electric power plant, that
makes possible the water con-