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Show Farm Family ! Wins 1st Award I V J I k V . '' a MANCHESTER, IOWA The Ralph Child? farm family,, near here, has received the first of the Rural Electrification Administration's Administra-tion's national awards "for distinguished distin-guished service in food production through use of electric power". This family 'increased pork, poultry poul-try and dairy production and cultivated cul-tivated 312. acres of. land with less help than before, the additional work being- done by electrical equipment, which replaces two men, Mr. Childs said. Electrified equipment on the Childs farm includes in-cludes a milking machine, water ! pump, running water- in the-barns, i chick brooder, grinder and fanning mill, feed elevator and chopper and many others. Above -is Miss Lucille Childs with the milking machine which enabled her to milk 29 cattle, cat-tle, as against 18 before the farm was electrified. Miss Childs is just entering training for the Army Nurse's Corps. |