Show REA Setup Gives Impetus To Farm Electrification Half Hal of all United States farms have been electrified since the REA program was started In announcing the basic allotments allotments allotments allot allot- ments for REA loans in the states the department of agriculture compared compared compared com com- pared the number of farms in each state with the total number of farms in the state to give the percentage of farms The eight states having the highest proportion of electrified farms were Connecticut with per cent followed by Rhode Island Massachusetts New Jersey Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington New York Idaho and Oregon Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon all of which were more than 92 per cent electrified At the other end of the list were North Dakota with only a little littlemore littlemore littlemore more than 15 per cent of the farms electrified preceded by South Dakota Dakota Dakota Da Da- Da- Da kota Mississippi Nebraska Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- New Mexico Montana and Kansas which had nearly 42 per percent percent percent cent electrified The other 32 states ranged between between between be be- tween the 42 per cent and 92 per percent percent percent cent limits For the country as a whole the July 1947 figures show 61 per cent of all farms electrified as compared with per cent a year earlier Nearly farms were electrified during the 1947 fiscal fiscal fiscal fis fis- cal year the largest increase on record for any year since the program program program pro pro- gram started In 1935 less than 11 per cent of U. U S. S farms had electric service L |