Show TO MAKE SURVEY ON USE OF electricity committee appointed at chicago meeting to make Compre comprehensive heft study of problem to determine of just what value electricity clec tricy can be in farm operations a 0 meeting was held in chicago byre by representatives re senta tives of the federal department of agriculture american form farm bureau federation american society of agricultural engineers and the national electric light association commit too tea on electricity as aa related to agriculture was organized at this meeting J W coverdale of the farm bureau is chairman 0 0 neff of the tha electric light association Is secretary this committee will supervise a comprehensive study of the farm power problem involved in this investigation will bo be a farm power survey covering all types of farm power generators such as horses and mules steam engines gas engines windmills electric electra c ino motors tors and man himself data will be collected on the amount of power required for various farm operations power requirements quire ments of various machines and working it into such a form as to make it readily adaptable to the special problem under consideration I 1 it was agreed that n complete sur voy of the present state of the use of electricity on the farm Is desirable and to this end plans were laid for an investigation which will reveal the number of farms being served by isolated plants and central station service the national electric light association will be requested to find the number of farm customers being served miles of rural electric lines current used farm operations for which electricity if IE used and cost of this service to the farmer an attempt will bo be made to secure similar data for the isolate plants in view of tho the importance of the farm power problem it was urged that the united department of agriculture and the agricultural expert experiment citations institute investigations on the application of electricity to agriculture which will ultimately place PIRCO information in the farmers hands enabling him to io malco make intelligent decisions regarding the application of electricity io 0 o his own problems Out outline litle cf invest gallons gat lons to be carried on under general supervision of this committee Is as follows follo wc 1 farm power survey 2 survey of central station and isolated plant services to farmers 3 survey of agricultural uses of electricity in foreign countries 4 arl and research work on the uses of electricity in agriculture |