Electricity In Farm Work

During the last year the availability of electricity for all the machanical work required on a farm has, it is claimed, )een fully demonstrated. The result las been not only a great saving of labor )ut a large reduction in the cost of dong the work and a great lessening of ,he risks of fire losses. The success of ,he experiment has shown that farmers need nó longer fear that their stacks of ïay and straw and their stores of grain vill be consumed even before they are afely housed. The unwieldy and dangerous steam thrashing machine niay e dispensed with, and all the work it iccoinplished, with much more besides nay be more cheaply and expeditiously done by means of electricity. These experiments were conducted on a large estáte in Moravia. All the farm vork required was done by a direct current generator of thirty-five atnberej apacity driven by a thirty horse-power engiue. A central station was .estabished in a planing mili on the estáte rom which two powers circuits of a otal length of about six miles were distributed over the estáte. One of these ircuits served to opérate a grist mili and a dairy, besides supplying all the ower required on two different farms. t has been found that all kinds of farm vork can be done by elictrecity better, nore economically and more expeditously than by human or animal power, ilectric plows turn over the soil as preisely as it can be done. Electric seedrs deposit the grain with a regularity which cannot be surpassed. Electric ultivators demolish the weeds with an fficacy which cannot be equaled. ïlectric reapers and mowers cut down he grain and grass. Electric spades hin out root crops. Electric rakes gath r up the crops and fruits. Electric hrashing machines separate the grain rom the straw and electric buckets cary it and deposit it in the barns premred for it. Numerous advantages over the use of lortable steam engines having revealed hemselves. No hauling of coal and water is required. The motor cars are much lighter than the steam engines and can be more easily moved from one part of the farm or field to another. During the winter months, when not required in agricultural work, the motors can be moved to the farm yard and used br operating irrigating pumps, should rrigation work be necessary, or if the armer desires to brew bis own beer ie has all the necessary power ready to ïand. The success of these experiments will, it is belfeved, bring about a revolution in the metbods of agriculture. The system as described seems particularly adapted to the farms of the West and Northwest.- Chicago Post.