Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-22
Kansas Professor VIII Con-
tinue Experiments in Mod
ell Farm Community Save
Time and Money

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Nov. Ga
farmers Utopia in which much OF
the heavy work of the field and the
drudgery of the household are ac-
complished by electricity is being
planned by Professor H. B. Walker
cf the Kansas State Agricultural
College at Manhattan, Kas.
Professor Walker, half done with
a series of experiments to determine
the extent to which electricity can
be used by farmers and farmers
wives, hopes soon to continue the
experiments in a model farm com.
munity.
In this model community farmers
and their wives would have as much
time for golf, visiting or other diver
sions as have city men and women.
Among the tasks which electricity
would perform for the farmer are
pumping water for live stock, grind
ing feed furnishing better water
supply, threshing grain, curing hay,
preparing silage, storing alfalfa,
milking, separating cream, steriliz'
ling milk and cleaning farm build.
ihgs.
Will Do WOmens Work
Among the tasks which electrical
power would perform for women are
operating washing machines, iron
ing, chopping foods, lighting homes
heating water, cooking and cleaning
Whether the model community is
to be organized depends upon a de-
cision of the public utility corpora.
lions that arranged with Professor
Walker and other Kansans to under.
take the electrical farm survey. If
the corporations agree to provide the
funds, the experiment will be under.
taken.
Rapidly increased use of electricity
on farms in the next ten years is
forecast by the experiments-rega
less of whether the experimental
community is formed
The farm identification survey
was undertaken last spring when
Governor Jonathan NJ. Davis ap
| pointed a special committee on the
relation of electricity to agriculture
AT first the experiments attempted
to forecast the principal agricultural
products of the state ten years from
today. Despite the trend toward
diversification of crops, it was agreed
that electricity would increase pro
duction as we'll as tighten the physi-
cal burden of farming
Could Save Money and Time
Professor Walker points out that
by electrical means farmers easily
could save money as we'll as time in
grinding feed for live stock and in
this way would be able to sell their
cattle and hogs at a lower figure.
In making the preliminary sur
veys," says Professor Walker, I'VE
found that electrical pumping would
increase the water supply az a very
small increase in cost.
In the grain districts electrical
threshing has been demonstrated as
not only possible but profitable We
have gone further and have outlined
the possibilities of curing hay, pre-
! pairing silage and putting up alfalfa
by electricity"
In the dairy industry, great saw.
ing can be made possible by electri-
cal milking, it was shown.
Various milking machines, operat.
ed by electricity, are being tested
| Operation of cream separators and
milk sterilizers by electricity already
has become quite general where
! power is available.
Extension of power lines will re
suit in greater use of electricity on
farms in the future, the experiment.
erS believe