Evening star., 1936-10-26
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

Down on the electrified farm at
Herndon, Va. where flies die scien-
tifically and water is hoisted from
the ground by centrifugal force, Wis
itors are welcome, but there is a
point where hospitality reaches the
sticking point. The owner Of the
Rosedale Dairy Farm has nailed a
neat metal plaque to his porch door
announcing:
request admission after visiting hours.
]. M. Hughes and family. Thank
you"
Visiting hours are from 10 am. to
noon and from 2 pm. to 5 pm. A
large sign at the junction Of the
Hughes lane with route z beckons
the passing motorist to inspect the
farm, and since July l, when 1t was
officially opened by Secretary Ickes,
5000 gadget lovers, interested farm
ers, utilities experts and tourists have
looked over the array of wonders with
which the farm is equipped.
Guide Service Provided.
To make it possible for Hughes
and his two sons, Randolph and Darr,
to go about the business of farming
and dining in peace, the Rural Elec-
trification Administration, which des-
ignated Rosedale as the model DEM
onstrator of what watts, amperes and
volts can do for life in the country,
. e r1l vrvtfn
ginia as conductors Of personal tours
around its 800 acres.
The fame of Rosedale has gone
half way around the world. When
the Third World Power Conference
was in progress here, men and women
from "a foreign countries went to see.
A Scotsman was there only last Sum-
day. Russian Ambassador Troyanov-
sky and German Ambassador Luther
have inspected it. Luther has farm
of his own in Bavaria, and would like
to adapt to it some Of the luxuries
with which Rosedale is equipped.
The Hughes enjoy this sudden fame
which has come with electric milking,
electric cooking, electric washing, elec-
trio vegetable raising and even fake
rain made possible by electricity
John Dove Hughes, a cousin of j. M
Hughes, said as much today when he
was found toasting himself by an elec-
tric heater which cast its glow on the
hand d-hewn walnut beams of the
20O-year-old house.
Ancient and Modern.
"Some very interesting people come
out here" he said. He Joined the
parade of Hunts, reporter and photog-
rapher through the Hughes home,
which is a monument to anomoly
Across from the electric range is the
open fireplace cookery which was in
vogue until rs years ago. Near an
electric burglar alarm is latch
string door. BY the dining room
mantelpiece leans fiintlock gun and
on the mantel sits an electric clock
which chimes every Is minutes and
rings each hour.
The house was originally a log
cabin, made of walnut and set on oak
sills. Most of the Americans who
come to see Rosedale are impressed
by its antiquity, but not two English
visitors.
ST don't suppose 200 years means
much to you," Mrs. Hunt remarked
to the British couple.
well, frankly no. We just moved
out Of q house 600 years old, and il
wasn't considered extraordinary"
Near the house Is the barn, where
the cows are provided electrically
with everything but their calves. Or
the way to his bovine Ritz-Carltor
the sightseers pass the toolshee
with electric bandsaw, electric ripsaw
electric emerywheel and electric forge
A 70-year-old ex-blacksmith looked
these over not long ago and shook hi
head when he asked about the forge
Wonders Where Muscles Go.
whats going to happen to tn
mans muscle?" he wanted to know
Men who run forges should swell VI
their biceps pumping the bellows, h
thought.
There Is a great spirit Of coma
raderie between the Hughes and tn
dozens of casual visitors who drop b.
to see what Rosedale is all about, ant
j. M. Hughes likes to cover bet
inspired by the possibilities of hi
electrical apparatus. Last week, TO
example, two young men looked a
Yankee, a vicious old sow, and wageret
$40 they could lure her out Of he
pen with an ear of corn.