The Glenwood post., 1919-02-22
SAVING TIME ON THE FARM
WITH ELECTRICITY

Many people do not realize how
much electricity can be made to help
out in these times of labor shortage on
the farms There are things ordinarily
done by hand every day about the farm
home that if done by aid of electric
power would mean the release of one
or more workers for at least part OF
the time, and in some instances would
make possible the performance of the
whole task by machinery.
For instance, an electric motor will
operate automatically pressure pump
ing system, SO that water under pres
sure can be piped to house and barn
and is invaluable for sprinkling and fire
protection. This does away entirely
with pumping and carrying water by
hand, and means saving of several
hours a week, to say nothing of the
added convenience of such an arrange
ment.
An electric motor will wash clothes
and wiring them, taking practically al
the drudgery out of wash day. Whilt
the motor is doing the washing, the
housewife can be clearing away The
breakfast dishes, looking after the gar
den or poultry-in short, doing the
work that ordinarily must wait or be
crowded in when the washing is don,
by hand.
There is the same advantage when
using the churn or the cream separator
1t saves time in sweeping if the house
wife can push an electric vacuum sweep
er over the floor instead of sweeping
with broom; the results are 20 very
much more satisfying, not only from the
standpoint of the kind of work done
but of the health and physical com
fort of all the family.
Two pairs of hands are required, or
dinarily, for jobs like using the s'ind'
stone, the tanning mill or the sheci
~
take the place of the man or boy who
would have to turn the crank, and will
do better job than hand power pro
vides.
| For most of the tasks named one
sixth to one-fourth horsepower motor
will do the work, using about two cents
worth of electricity an hour.
Two cents an hour The labor of a
man or woman is worth more than
that on our farms today. Their time
can well be put to profitable work or
to profitable resting while electricity
does the work they do not actually
have to do with their own hands
This is getting to be a mechanical
age on the farms as well as in other
industries. The next few years are
going to see this modern force, cleo
tricity, employed more and more ia
save time and labor and to Lghten
burdens in the work of the farm.
1t is surprising what one cent $
worth of electricity will do. 1t will
operate one sixteen candlepower lamp
for five hours; a six-pound flatiron for
fifteen minutes; an electric washer
having capacity of twelve sheets to
the washer long enough to wash twenty
sheets; an electric vacuum cleaner long
enough to clean $50 square feet of car
pet; pump long enough to raise 101
gallons of water 100 feet; . radiant
toaster long enough to toast ten slicel
OF. bread; . sewing machine two hours
twelve-inch fan two hours; an cleo
tric percolator long enough to produce
six cups Of coffee.
The first question most country peo'
pie ask is: "How can we have cleo
tricity on the farmf"
There are two sources Of electricity y
for country homes. The first Is a
neighboring town or city with an cleo
trio power plant from which wires NAV
be run into the country. This is a
splendid source Of power If 1t can BE
had. Many farms, near cities with
power plants, have electricity from that
source; ten Of fifteen families, or