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Show farms abroad and also to obtain the results of any experimental work which would be useful In projecting the work here. "I shall also appoint a department man to meet with the committee tomorrow to-morrow and to continue to work with It, I hope the committee will later take up the question of standardization standardiza-tion of parts In the electrical industry and the interchangeabillty of them. In fact, I hope your inquiry and recommendations recom-mendations will not stop with the strictly electrical apparatus but will . extend on to farm machinery which will be operated by electrical power. When the committee has worked out these standards the Department of Commerce will be pleased to lend its assistance In promoting them. Standardization Stand-ardization on this field will work the same as It has in others. It will reduce re-duce the cost of manufacture and make possible more widespread use of electrical machinery." EXPECT ELECTRICITY TO REDUCE EXPENSES Much Progress Made by Government Govern-ment in Power Survey. "Farmers prefer to have experiments in electrical farm equipment performed by the government on a limited, designated desig-nated scale rather than at their individual indi-vidual expense as was done in the pioneer pi-oneer days of tractor farming," J. W. Coverdale, secretary of the American Farm Bureau federation, told the committee com-mittee on the relations of electricity to agriculture, which met recently in Washington. The purpose of the meeting was to secure the co-operation of the three departments de-partments of the government which are Interested in the move which the farmers are making co-operatively with Industry, combining the activities of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce and Interior with that of the committee. The farmers hope to introduce the electrical power to the farm with a smaller shrinkage in farmers' pocketbooks than occurred during the period when heavyweight tractors were purchased by farmers long before they were so constructed as to operate economically. "Extensive use of electricity on farms is bound to come In the next few years. The farmers do not propose pro-pose to be caught with lines running to their farms which are too light to bear the current, or with equipment which will have, to be Junked after a short time because It Is not fitted for farm operations," continued Mr. Coverdale. Cov-erdale. S. H. McC'rory, representing the Department De-partment of Agriculture, has already made much progress in Ids survey of all kinds of power now In use on farms, a preliminary report of which was given confidentially to the committee. com-mittee. Secretary of the Interior, Hubert Work, and Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, agreed to co-operate through the departments with the committee, com-mittee, and ways and means to bring tills about were worked out following the luncheon. Secretary Work stressed the need for electricity in the farm borne, and said he had already pointed out the value of the use of electricity In the home, buildings, and field In a communication commu-nication to forty thousand farmers located lo-cated on the reclamation projects. "We wish, more than anybody else, to keep our farmers on the reclamation reclama-tion projects to make them prosperous prosper-ous and happy. We wish them to teach their children to stay there, and electricity will go a long way toward bringing it about," concluded Secretary Secre-tary Work. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, Howard M. Gore, said he expected electricity elec-tricity would do more than almost any other agency In taking the aches and pains out of agriculture. "It will also offer a substantial answer to the problem prob-lem of reducing the cost of farm productionparticularly pro-ductionparticularly power." Oscar K. liradfute, president of the I American Farm Bureau federation, who sat In with the committee, called together by Secretary Work, for the purpose of going over the activities of reclamation service and recommending changes, attended part of the sessions of the commltteo on relations of electricity elec-tricity to agriculture. "I am very anxious that this form of ro-operat Ive endeavor prove n success," suc-cess," said Mr. Brndfule, "for It means a great deal to the farming Industry In-dustry If we can work out even slightly In advance of tin; running needs the proper in formal ion which rarmers should have for elect rl I'.vlng their farms. We are trying to work onl along sound, economical and engineering en-gineering lines, methods that will give farmers electrical power and equipment and at the same lime eliminate elim-inate so fnr as possible the experl-menlal experl-menlal period In lilch (be equipment passes rapidly through singes of Improvement Im-provement lenvlng obsolete equipment equip-ment In the farmers' hands." "Development or superpower systems sys-tems In tills country will bring gfciitly Increased use of electricity on farms," Secretary Hoover told the committee, commit-tee, "the organization of superpower nyslems Is bound to come and II. l Just as certain Hint a greatly Increased use of electricity on farm will be recorded In this country In the next few yeurs. I mil so deeply Inlerested In this question Hint I shall have h survey made of all the farm countries to show how eluctrlclty Is used on |