Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-10-23
Electricity Farm Servant.
Lexington Dispatch.

| VI y Ntot,1 ii''h''p 'ltN tlilA., Ill'I
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 wood
en- pump, which stood in the
barn yard, and froze up solid ev,
cry winter, were symbols of the
farm, just as the street car and
the department store are SYM
bols of the city. With the farm
were observation-disclosures of Old fash
ioned ways of doing things, of
hard work and long hours.
But what change has t a k e n
Place!
Drive out into the country at
night and look at the farm -hous-
es you pass. In a great many Of
item, instead of the dim glow
that used to come from one or
two windows, or the bobbing
point of light that marked IL Ian
tern being carried up to the
house from the barn, you will see
the whole place brightly lighted.
Drive into the barn yard. In
stead of waiting while some one
at the house lights lantern and
comes out, you'll suddenly find
the whole yard Hooded with light
from the electric lamp on Il p,le
in the center of the yard, or per-
haps on a corner of the barn.
and when your host comes out
you'll find that 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 on the farm.
AS you go through the coun
, try you will find Il surprisingly
large number of farms electri
cally equipped. And nearly all OF
this equipment has been put il
within the lastthreeorlou lourycars
One manufacturer alone announ'
= ces over seventy. five thousand
p satisfied users," a surprisins
/ fac, in view of the farmers vel
j known tendency to make q long
E and thorough investigation before
X he buys anything in the way OF
farm equipment.
: What, then, is the reason fol
+ this rapid increase in the rura
use of electricity? Simply this
e that electricity has proved to b'
p wonderfully useful on the farm
J. Much more so, in fact, than ir
}, city homes.
, Electric light is not only supc
l. rior to all others as aIight, but i:
@ much more conycnicnt, much sa
= fer, and in farm uH% ,e, saves
q great amount of iime. The differ
J. rnce between turning a switcl
). at the house and Ii sh ing a Ian
J. tern has already been mentione,
e and this greater co . Ienience il
a found throughout. The upstair
IS lights can be- switched on fror
d the lower. hall, and even the bar
N may be lighted from the house.
II The convenience effects a grea
u saving of time. The Gaily clear
S' Ing and filing of lamp is no lor
N ger necessary. There is no wall
III ing from barn to the house to &c
10 a lantern. And in The barn i
;" self, it is found iho well-place
> electric lamps make every NOV
~ ment surcr and faster, savin
IL nearly half the time it used
ID take to do the chores. =.
D. Electric light is sd Ter, too, pa
~ ticularly in the Darn, where ii
IT, hazard of fire from an oyertur
It ed lantern was formerly vel
l." great.
But electric power on the far
is even more useful than electr
'le light. An automatic water sy
al TEN will pump every drop'of "
VII ter formerly pumped by han
of s,nn,v;no watar ~, dor nressu