Show RURAL ELECTRIC LINE TEST IN MINNESOTA To Ascertain If Service Can Be BeI I Made Successful Minnesota Is to ilave have the first trial rural el electric line in th the United States It rIt Is to be built under the Joint supervIsion supervision supervision super super- vision of farmers agri agricultural col college ollege ollege ol- ol lege experts and power company When completed It will be put putto putto putto to Its real test This test consists of experiments to a ascertain de definitely whether r rural If line e electric service can be made an economic success from the standpoint of both farmer and power company This definite program Is the result of representative f farmers mers and Northern North North- em ern rn States Power Lower ower company officials joining In a a series of ot meetings startIng startIng start- start Ing lag last January and nd culminating In Ina a 0 meeting he held d In St. St Pa Paul Path l September last and bids fair to sol solve sole e the rural electric line problem In Minnesota Minnesota Minne Minne- sota and blaze the trail for fOl the rest of the nation It was agreed greed that that a trial electric line Une some soma five miles long in a typical southern Minnesota farming fannIn community community should be built By a unanimous vote J J. J F. F Reed president of the Minnesota Farm Bureau Bureau Bureau Bu Bu- Bu- Bu I reau federation presiding at the meetIng meetIng meetIng meet- meet Ing was Instructed to appoint a committee com com- committee corn com of seven with himself as chaIrman chairman chairman chair chaIr- man and the the committee to include Dean W. W C. C Coffey of th the Minnesota College of Agriculture with five other members to represent t the farmers and company By further motion this committee w was s Instructed not only to take charge of experiments In the use of electrical elec elec- driven ly en equipment on this trial line but to make a complete survey of the entire power situation on on the Minnesota Minnesota Min Mm- farms both In the farm home and on the farm Itself The report leport drawn up by this committee committee committee com com- listed the advantages of electricity electricity electricity elec elec- on the farm as follows I 1 Convenience e In lighting the house and barn with consequent dispensing with kerosene lamps and lanterns 2 Labor saving for the farmer and his wife This might be subdivided as follows a Labor saving for both husband and wife which would merely merely merely mere mere- ly ease their dally daily burdens but which would neither produce more dare money no nor save money b Labor sav saving Ing dev devices Ices which would preclude the necessity of hiring household help for the wife and labor saving devices which would preclude preclude pre pre- clude elude the necessity of hiring an nn assistant assistant as as- ns- ns for the farmer 3 S. Electrically drIven and md operated farm equipment which would actually produce additional dollars on the farm E. E A A. White director of the commIttee committee com corn on tb the relation of electricity to agriculture declared at the end of the meeting that Minnesota had taken a astep astep astep step which placed It In advance of all the rest of the nation We are starting right he be said This Is the first time In history of this problem of rural electric service that farmers and power company men have sat down together to work out their problem on a n basis of mutual un un- un- un Wherever Where this line Is built I think I can promise c cooperation cooperation opera co tion of the manufacturers of el electrical electrical- r driven ly-driven equipment for thi this will be bethe bethe bethe the first line of this kind In the United States and we will see to Its iti complete electrification Anything of a purely experimental nature will vilI go Into It at atno atno atno no cost to the farmer furmer |