Show Farms Will ViII Soon Be Electrified A number of Michigan newspapers have had editorial comment in appreciation of a recent reduction in electric rates for rural consumption The Wyandotte Michigan Record February 19 has the following Science coupled with individual and corporate initiative is making it possible for those living on farms to enjoy practically every convenience of city life and at less cost Last week the Consumers Power Company reduced its power rates on rural lines by abolishing the 3 monthly meter charge This will wilt encourage the use of more electricity on the farms Many rany tasks of drudgery will be accomplished by this modern I electrical robot and the time and energy saved will wilt enable farm households to take up more of the cultural things in life liCe Corporations serve best when the they help to ease case the burden of farm As each new convenience is added to farm life it becomes becom s easier to persuade the succeeding generation that the greatest gain will vill come in staying on the farm instead of seeking city jobs The time is coming when nearly every farm will be lighted by electricity electrically driven tools will supplant many of those now in use and the dream of an agricultural class representing our highest paid class of workers will be realized We do not need to open great new tracts to reclamation at enormous costs when there are arc so many abandoned farms to be reclaimed equipped With With- modern appliances and made to bloom once more in the midst of well defined and well established communities com com- Let us hope for the return of those pioneer days when country I life ife swayed the thoughts of the nation when men learned to love clean things think clean thoughts and practice the living Jiving of clean lives Jives taught them by their close contact with nature Cheap farm power will help speed that day |