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Show Electricity Now Lights One of Three U. S. Farms Nearly 1,400,000 of the nation's farms have substituted electric lights for the traditional oil lamp in the past 6 Mi years, according to a report by the department of agriculture. agri-culture. ' This brings the total to more than 2.000.000 electrified farms out of a total of over 6.000,000 farms in the nation. This report, prepared by the Rural Rur-al Electrification administration, is compiled from various sources, in- eluding the REA estimate of un-electrifled un-electrifled j farms required to be made each year under the terms of the R. E. act of 1936. The actual number of farms receiving re-ceiving central station electric service, serv-ice, from private power companies, REA systems and all other sources is 2,126,150. according to the REA estimate, as against 743,954 on Jin-uary Jin-uary 1, 1935, the year in which REA was established. Today. 34. a per cent of the nation's farms are electrified. elec-trified. In 1935, only 10.9 per cent had such service |