Show EXPECT electricity TO REDUCE EXPENSES much progress made by government in power survey partners prefer to hue huic experiments in electrical farm equipment performed pui formed by the government on u limited descg bated scale rather than tit U their ind 11 vidual bidual expense as wits nas ilone done lu ili the p pl aneer days dais of tractor farming fanning J W coverdale secretory secretary of the lie american marui huitau federation told tile lie corn coil cittee on the relations of electricity electric it to agriculture which ulet luet recently lecent ly in washington the llie purpose of the meeting was to secure the alie operation cooperation co of the three thre de of the government which are interested lu in the move which tire farmers farni ors tire are waking making co operatively cooperatively with industry Ind the activities of tile departments of agriculture commerce and interior with that of tile the committee the far farmers liopo hope to introduce tile the electrical power to tho the farm nun with a smaller aller shrinkage in banners fan ners pocketbooks than occurred during the period when heavyweight heava weight tractors were purchased by funnels farmers long before they were so constructed as to opel acono economically ill teal ly intensive extensive use of electricity on barins Is hound bound to como in the next few years airs the formers do not pro pose to be with lines running to their farms velch tire nic too light to benr bear the current or with etli equipment which will mill lime have to be junked bunked after a short time because it Is not fitted for operations continued mr ir cov ordale S 11 II mccrory Ic Crory representing the department part ment ot of agriculture has already ninde made lunch progress in ills his survey suney of till nil kinds of power now in use on farms a preliminary report leport of which was given confidentially to tile the committee itic It tC secretary oi of the interior hubert work and secretary Setre tary of commerce herbert hoover hooker agreed to coope operate cooperate co ope ito through the departments with etli tile cui 1 I cittee anti and ways ais and means to bring ng this about were cie worked out jut follow ng the luncheon lun theon 1 secretary work stressed tho the need for electricity in the fat faun in home hoine and said mild lie he find already pointed out the value of the use of lit in the home buildings and held field lit in a corosu nl ni catlon to forty thousand farmers lo 10 caged on tile reclamation projects we wish more than anybody else clie to keep our farmers on the rec laina tion projects to make them prosper ous und and happy we wish asli them to teach their children to atay there and electricity will all go a long way toward bringing it about concluded secretary work ork assistant secretary of agriculture howard nf gore core said ho he expected elec triciti would do more than almost any other agency in taking the aches and pains out of agriculture it will also offer it n substantial answer to the problem of reducing tile cost of farm pro particularly power oscar I 1 E bradfute president of the lie Amer american lenn farm bureau federation who sat in with the committee called calle d together by secretary work for tho the purpose of going over oer the activities of reclamation service and recommending changes attended part of the sessions of the committee on relations of electricity to agriculture 1 I am very anxious that this form of operative cooperative co endeavor prove a success sald mr bradfute Drad fute for or it means a great deal to the feir ming industry jf it we ve can work vork out even een slightly lit ip advance of the farming needs the proper information which farmers should have for electrifying their farms we are trying to work out mit along sound economical find engineering gi lines methods that will give farmers electrical power and equipment and tit nt the same time bellm imp so far as possible sible the expert nip tat period in abich the equipment passes rapidly through of improvement pro leaving obsolete equipment in the farmers fan ners handi 11 development of super superpower systems in this country will bring greatly increased use of electricity on farms secretary hoover told the commit tte tt e the organization organisation of superpower Is bound to come nod it I 1 it just juat ns as certain that a greatly increased use of electricity on farms will be recorded in this country in the next few years I 1 am so deeply interested in this question that I 1 shall have a survey auncy made of nil all tile the farro farm countries to show hov hor electricity Is used oa a forms farms abroad and also to obtain the results of tiny experimental work which would bo be useful in projecting efio work here 1 I shall also appoint a department man in to meet with the committee tomorrow anti and to continue to work with it I 1 hope the committee will later take up tip the question of standardization of parts in t the electrical industry and the of them in iii fact I 1 liopo hope your inquiry anti and recommendations ions will not stop with the strictly electrical apparatus but will extend on to farin machinery which will be operated by electrical power when the committee lias has worked out these standards tile the department of commerce will be pleased to lend its assIs assistance tunce lit in promoting them thein standardization ardiz atlon on tills this uld field will work tile the same its as it tins hns in others it will reduce tile the cost of manufacture and make possible more widespread use of electrical ina chinery |