The Washington times., 1920-08-22
MADE MODEL FARM
WITH ELECTRICITY
Pennsylvania Man Escapes
Many Tasks BY Installing
Small Power Plant.

out in lie Raysville. Pa, about a
eighteen miles from a railroad station.
a farmer and his wife, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Il. Shetrone, have proved to
themselves the true value OF power
and light on the farm.
Shetrone farm Is typical OF tho
IA rms throughout that vicinity. The
house sets back from the road. Step
ping stones form "A path from the road
TO the house. Big shade trees make
the yard a pleasant spot in which to
spend ones leisure. moments. Stone
steps lead from the back porch to a
picturesque well. To the pssser-by
the farm Is very picturesque, but for
those who live on II and do the work,
II used to be far different story.
Work on Shetrone farm began at dawn
and ended only when II grew so dark
that the insufficient light from lam
tern or kerosene lamp made II impos-
| sible to go on.
Mr.. Shetrone has twelve cows. Fig
ure the time Il used to take to milk
the cows. Lack OF equipment and
conveniences made IL necessary to sell
| the cream rather than churn II into
butter at home. Every trip to the
creamery took two hours. and that
| n
busy life of a farmer.
cows KEPT HIM BUSY.
Watering the horses and other live
stock meant many trips to the we'll
Innumera farm chores kept Mr..
| Shetrone busy from morning until
night and Mrs. Shetrone would be
called away from some OF her tasks
to help her husband. Darkness came
all too soon. Pickering lanterns
around a farm not only give insufn-
cient light, but are dangerous.
And the life of Mrs. Shetrone was
| Just one hard task after another. She
| forgot all about how picturesque the
| well was when she had to draw by
hand all the water that was needed
on the farm. Every drop of water
used for drinking. washing clothes or
di shes had to be carried from the well
to the house. Wash day was the day
to be dreaded, for farm clothes need
lot of washing. and pail after pail Of
water had to be carried from the well
to the washtub. Even with hand
driven washing machine 1t was hard
work to turn the handle and the
wringer.
1t was hard to keep the farm house
| clean. Every time any one came In
! from the barn 1t meant a little more
| dirt to be cleaned UP. 1t Is for this
| very reason that on so many farms
the parlor is never used except for
| great occasions.
But one day Mr.. Shetrone decided
that il was about time to make work
easier on the farm for Mrs. Shetrone
and himself. He had heard about an
electric power and light plant, and
what he had heard about the outfit
sounded good to him, so he thought
he'd give it a fair trial. Before many
! days he had one installed in his barn.
1t didn't take up very much room.
was very easy to get at, simple to
operate and to take care OF. one or
the first things he noticed was that II
took less kerosene TO run the outnt
than was use dto keep the old kero-
scne lamps burning.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS MADE.
All kinds of convenences and i'm
| provements were made possible by tn"
| installation of this plant. With the
| feed room, hay loft, COW barns and
wood shed brilliantly lighted chores
| coud be done any time that was most
| convenient.
Wires were run to the chicken
| house, where the working days OF the
| hens were made longer by electric
| light. Mr.. Shetronc now has a motor.
that can be carried to any part OF the
| farm. 1t takes the place of an extra
farm hand. for he uses it to turn all
the farm machinery that was for
merly turned by hand.
| The cows are milked by machine
| that is operated by the power and
! light OUTFIT, and Mr.. Shetrone finds
that it is no longer necessary or
| profitable to take the milk to the
creamery. Electrically churned but
| ter from mechanically milked cows is
| bound to be pure and wholesome. Mr..
Sh etrone sells his putter to the larg-
est hotel in New York city.
Mrs. Shetrone now has running
water in the kitchen. The actual la
Dor of cooking washing and doing all
the other household tasks is just cut
| in half. A convenient drain does
away with the burden of carrying
out the water to empty 1t In the
yard. a pipe carries water to a ce-
m ent trough in tn ebarn, and water
| ing the livestock is an easy task
compared with what it used to be.
| Electricity has worked wonders in
lessening the amount of labor on the
| Shetrone farm. And now, when the
| darkness falls, this farm is one of
the cheeriest spots in all that coun-
try side.