Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-17
Electricity and Farm Chores.

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Electricity and Farm Chores.
Farm work is not just a matter Of
taking team to the fields and putting
in SO many hours day blowing, har-
rowing, seeding, harvesting or what
ever the task might be. There are
also the chores and farmers are COM
ing to realize more and more that val
liable time can be wasted in doing
chores that is. where folks persist
in doing them in the old way.
In the field modern machinery is
employed to save time and labor and
to make possible short cuts, so that
fewer hands can do the work and keep
the farm production up to the stand
ard that has been set for it. Why
isn't it just as reasonable to employ
short cuts about the barn. in the cllore
work as in the regular farm work
in the fields?
A great many farmers are coming to
decide that it is, and your up-to-date
farmer is using modern equipment
about the farm buildings just as he is
using modern equipment in the field
work. One of the most important of
the time and labor saving forces he
is using today is electricity. Generally
he gets it from one Of these small, in
dividual electric plants that can be
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or in any other convenient place about
the premises.
This electricity lie uses to light his
home. first of all. Of course. Then if
he and his hands are to work efficient
ly, he will light his barns and stables
aud the surrounding yards. Most Of
the chores in certain seasons are done
after dark, by the aid of a lantern.
More of them would he done after
dark if bright electric light were pro-
vided and that much more time would
be left for work in the fields. Then
the farmer with electricity will use
electric power to save steps, save work
and save time. He will use electric
ity to pump the water. He will have
this water stored under pressure so
that 1t is forced to the faucets, either
at the house or barn, and no pumping
or carrying is necessary. If there are
many cows to milk, he will run the
milking machine with an electric
motor, and the farm boy who other
wise would be. tempted to leave the
farm to escape an uncongenial job will
be satisfied to stay and supervise so
interesting an operation as milking by
mechanical means. Then this electric
power the farmer will use to turn his
grindstOne, the corn shelter or grinder,
the clippers for clipping mules or
horses, for cleaning seed, for dozen
different uses that will suggest them
selves wherever electricity is available
OF course the women folks will not
fail to reap a benefit from 1t, too, for
besides the modern lighting, the bath
and indoor toilet that electricity makes
possible, the electric power gives them
the vacuum sweeper, the electric vibra-
tor with its healthful, identifying
massage. and such household ma
chinery as electric washing machines.
churns and the like. Then there is
electric heat for repair jobs like solder
ing, for the electric tOaster or perco-
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for the sick room, for the fiat iron
and various devices all calculated to
bring comfort, saving or pleasure to
the farm family.
City folks use these electrical devices
as matter of course. The farm fam
lily can enjoy them too. and reap vast
benefit, wherever there is an electric
plant ready at their command. These
plants give electricity ut any hour OF
the day or night. They will work
twenty-four hours day without a
grumble. without Sinking! without
lodging single duty. There are
many thousands in use now and many
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farmers everywhere are coming to re-
cognize their tremendous benefits, The
times demand tremendous energy apd
effort from farmers nowadays and no
force is giving more to help them sup
ply these necessary elements than cleo
tricity and the faithful farm electric
plants. For all these cOnveniences use
the Delco Light. For sale by Woolseyr
Berg Electric Company, Svenson
Building. Webster City. Iowa. 17fl
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