Show RURAL ELECTRIC LINE TEST IN MINNESOTA to ascertain if service can be made successful minnesota Is to have the first trial rural electric line in the united states it Is to bo be built under tile joint supervision of farmers agricultural college experts end and power company officials when completed it will be put to its real test tills this test consists of 0 experiments to ascertain definitely whether rural line 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 farmers and northern states power company officials joining in a series of meetings starting last january and culminating in in a meeting held in st paul september last and bids fair to solve the rural electric line problem in minnesota and blaze tue the trail for the rest of the nation it was agreed that a trial electric line some five miles long in a typical southern minnesota farming community should be built by a unanimous vote J F reed president of the minnesota farm bureau re a u federation presiding at the meeting was instructed to appoint a committee of seven with himself as chairman and the committee to include de dean a n W 0 coffey of the minnesota college of agriculture with five other members to represent the farmers and company by fUrt further lie motion this committee was instructed not only to take charge of experiments in the use of elec tribally driben equipment on this trial line but to wake make a complete survey of the entire power situation on the minnesota neitta farms both in the farro farm home and on the farm itself the report drawn up by tills this committee m listed the advantages of electricity on the farm is as follows 1 convenience in lighting fighting the house and barn with consequent dispensing with kerosene lamps and lanterns 2 labor saving for the farmer and his wife this might inight be subdivided as follows a labor saving for both husband and wife which would merely ease their dally daily burdens but which would neither produce more money n nor or save money moncy b labor sai saving ing devices which would preclude the necessity essit 3 of hiring household help for th the e wife and labor saying saving devices which would pre clude the necessity of 0 nn an assistant for the farmer 3 electrically driven and operated term farm equipment which would actually produce additional dollars dollar on the form farm E A white director ot of tile the committee on the relation 0 of electricity to agriculture declared at the end of the ine meeting eting that minnesota had taken a step which placed it in advance of all the rest of 0 f the nation 1 we are starting right he said tills this Is the first time in history of tills this problem of rural electric service that farmers and po power er company men have sat down together to out their heir problem on a babis of mutual understanding der wherever tills this line is built I 1 think I 1 can promise co opera tion loll t ot of tile the manufacturers of electrical ly driven equipment for tills this will be the first line ot of this kind in tile the united states and we will see to Us its complete r electrification Any thimi of a purely I 1 nature will go into it at no cost to the farmer |