LATEST FARMING-DEVELOPMENT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1015, 3 January 1911, Page 8

LATEST FARMING-DEVELOP-MENT.

"LABOUR SAVING AMD PROFIT- : - ' •/■■■ . ABLE.". ' 'f::.'- K?'-f>any.years ago it would hare been a wild notion tb_ picture! an electrical r' farm, . lot, clcctrical farms are realities •, ' •today in German v. The new-ufea-of tha , power is deEcribcd as a most striking rei. >eont; development'in the electrical,sphere. ; : .An oversea agricultural paper, in, an -.article •on the subject, gives particulars ; ; concerning the farm of Professor Back- ' ; ° a,,5 » near Qtiednan Sn Eastern Prussia. t; : - Tho farm .covers' iSO acres, and its dairy handles 3GOO gallons of milk daily. Every : W} -oftte.-farm is lighted by electricity, f , ian'd is in telephonic commuriicatica with ! every other part; Tho ..dairy has an I . electrical churn;-the bam contains elec-! ; 'trically-opsratf-d 1 feed and carrot-cutting ; iniachincs; and even the grindstone is r turned by a small belt from the shaft (connected with the barn motor. The t' . water-pumping apparatus is run by eke:..tridity; all the buildings are lighted by .incandescent latops, cnd.thert is «a elecj' trical pipe-lighter at the doors of all the , Ihouees! . 'This farm has aHo its'- owii r : ; , - itbrashing 'and ,grist mil];' the mdojiinery ■', of which is turned. ;by a curreit' from; ;r : (the ' miniature'central stati6ii;'' andfv , . finally, there is Snail sawmill, which j-\ .Eats'itsipower fram the Jdhio statidn. (On "the: farm are all kinds of electrical £■ . (agricultural machines, including an aiitot'i" ,'jmobile plough, all run by batteries' 'i : \ /charged -from sub-stations in the fields. "i The power for all these various operal: -ftions—lighting, heating. ... telcphc-nes, p: , churning, cutting, -grinding," . piunipinei' 'thrashing, and sawing—comes froni'a-sff- ...'' jhorse-pdwer stationary engine, movi'ng i | two dynamos. ; I From this station the power is dis-Itributc-d to the pa:;ts of the farm, and h"-" [the 'switchboard : if- "so, plainly ; parked jthat the commonest, farjnhafnd can.'regu- ! |lat>9 the supply to. ft the need, h . At Grottorf a -number of small farms 5 t lhavo grouped to', support one. station, i-land to have their work done by it,'and' 'v.;.;, [Professor. Backhauls farm is hot by any imeans the only one having a whole plant ['-... and- complete system. , . Tho writer of the article claims that ! . istich, plants as these do moro than niereOv lighten labour. Fewer workmen, lie , s are needed, and greater 'profits are ' ,possible, and:-thejwhdle business of 'farmpng is made more attractive. The yard lis lighted by an crc.,light; night >york K :. !iii the fields is possible : 'wheh-it,is 'races--' i .... flary; the.stables are-warmed-'in' winterr; jand ventilated in summer by the tum(irig of a switch; indeed, the entire farm • ; runs like a machine, at the call.of the j.. ' .'electric current.