The Wilmington morning star., 1940-02-19
BUILDINGS
IMPROVED IN N. {.
,,ners Making Wide Strides
In Improving Structures
And Equipment

North Carolina is becoming
.1.orins.conscious. and is max
''' ,,nificant strides in improving
d. and equipment. and in adj
'' .,ootrical and powered convent
aAs These are the conclusions OF
a.'id S. Weaver. head OF the De-
# Agricultural Engineering at
= state college, after surveying
,.,erts Of county farm and home
Iasnts Of the Extension service 1or
I's Wa We are making progress
weaver declared, but we are
fl'', .om tbe ideal. For instance,
li .sirds of u rural people are
w carrying their water into the
house sn for the lack of adequate water
sstsms'' o;4aa
The
+ho State college specialist as
.%ricultural engineering accomplish
'snts in which county agents had
an active part: 6O4 new dwellings
,.tr,cted with Extension service
.,.rs 9172 dwellings remcGeled
r,,ns furnished by the agents,
,,aO home appliances and ma
',ire, installed, 1,136 sewage sys-
,,ms installed, 1,15O hog houses
,uilt 1884 poultry houses built, 80
i,iry buildings erected, and PSI silos
built or dug.
1854 Blueprints Sent Out
~"Njnety.eight of the 100 counties
,y,iled themselves of our blueprint
,.,yice, and plans for 1894 strut.
,nrss we're sent out from State col.
1.yen Prof. Weaver said. "a full
time craftsman has been added to
The Agricultural Engineering de-
n,rtment for the purpose of prepar-
ing new plans that are requested
and for re.working old plans. We
hOue to conduct at least 10 construc-
Tim demonstrations in 1910 in an
effort 10 stimulate further interest in
better farm equipment"
There were approximately 5000
miles of new rural electric lines con-
sructed in North Carolina in 1889,
TO serve more than $4,000 farm
families who previously did not have
electricity in their homes and barns.
These lines we're built at a cost OF
about s. ,6OS.6 81, and added to the
1862 miles of lines built from 1885
through 1888, there are now $685..
Q9 worth Of rural lines in the state
service 1889 farm families which
never had this service before five
years ago.
As concrete examples of the value
Of electricity in the economical oper-
alton Of the farm, Prof. Weaver list
ed the following cases:
Grady W. Miller of Liberty Town.
ship in Yadkin county installed an
electric water system in his dairy
barn at a cost Of s175. He reported
that his milk production increased
) percent without any increase in
feed By obtaining 60 additional
salons Of milk per day, Mr.. Miller
raised the income from his dairy
herd by about $3.50 per month.
Fred A, Cochran operates a dairy
at Newell in Mecklenburg county,
producing about Is gallons of milk
per day. Before the rural electric
line reached his farm two years ago
ne was spending s25 per month for
Ne' N'0O per month for wood and
coal TO fire the steam boiler con.
iee'ed with the sterilizer, and rs
cents per day to operate a small
power plant. This old equipment
iequlfed a great deal of time and
ldOof'' Mr.. Cochran said. "The total
'N' 10 operate before I put in COM
plele electrical equipment was an
average of $3.50 per month. I have
!uSl checked by electric bill and find
~ averages s1S.o2 per month. In
'uulllon to its saving in the cost If
NfSices, I figure I save at least $40
per month o.. labor"
Electric Hotbed Used
An electric hotbed for producing
"ee' potato plants is found on the
~ Il VI Herbert Pace near Hender-
fuASille' in Henderson county. M.
m' produces about 100000 plants
~S4 year, using flue-heated and hot
ssfneated beds as we'll as the
Ss'flcally-heated beds. Mr.. Pace
,as mat he raises 25 to 50 percent
has plants in the electric bed than
mi, M ,ae others, and they are ready to
~. Ten days before the plants from
ar .lue'heated and hot water beds.
inere is every indication that
m.ls ufal engineering work will
rn nas even greater gains in 1910. as
na nal people realize that labor and
If t .sF constitute at least 60 percent
And ,ne cost of producing most crops.
where more economical sources
pro aso0t and power are available. the
eared. riol' weaver de-
Ar, u. NJ. Ellis and Joe B. Richardson
En, t.ela workers in the Agricultura,
Jopsa eer'ng department; D. r
tim IS extension rural electrifica
is specialist; and ]. G. Fersuson
taehss enslon cotton gin specialist, At.
~ W the Sa mo off:.