Show NEW FARMING METHODS WITH POWER CHANGE CHANCE of Rural Rura Dis Dis- Districts Dis- Dis Districts Districts Expected to Employment D By fly NEW EW Jan S 8 8 Decentralization ot of the population and the Introduction of ot superpower er on farms are the forces which will change chanc re front from a losIng to a highly profitable Industry Gen Oy E Tripp chair chair- chairman chairman chairman man of ot the board of ot the house Electric and Manufacturing company of ot Industry will enable tha tho farmer to broil broaden den dent t te e earning capacity of at hIs hie tam fam family sly ily Increase th business value aIu ot his tl farm tarm and male make hl hi homo home more attractive General Tripp e- e ex explains plains Super power will offer the a mean mene of ot Increasing the efficIency of ot hi hIs hs workers A A die dIs- dIstrIct dietrict dis district having having- 25 5 to SO iiO O times the area arca could function as easily 8 those of ot two g generations ago aZO The rho tannin industries will wilt be specialized pl plants fitted Into and made part ot of o our present effic effic- efficient t int nt Industrial system not stem not not the tho lit lit- little lit little tle tic inefficient ocal workshops ot of S 50 or or 60 GO year yeara ago ngo I Since 1900 our agricultural has lias been b on slewing up and down as compared with other Industries Until the b begin begin- gln- gln nug of ot the war Var the industry was aced with a tendency tl to Increase costs costs per un unit without Ine in prices condition aa interrupted b by war exigencies on- on only on only ly jy to be revived In 1924 when farm tarm bankruptcies exceeded all records 1200 per cent since 1910 Statistics pr presented lel ted by TrIpp In record to the participation lIon tion of oC the Industry in the total income of ot the nail nation on liow that In 1850 1810 the farmers farmen received per cent of ot the country's In- In Income In Income come In 1800 1900 05 05 per cent 1910 per cent 1920 per cent and 1121 1221 93 per cent rin MS Not Not ot more mOIe than than three per cent ot of the farms in this country are receIving current front from power lines General Tripp reports yet no one denies the desirabIlity ot of electric service This backwardness Is largely largely due due to the tact fact that farms are so long Ion polo pole lines must be berun jun Iun In orde order 10 to serve a limited number of ot consumers whose hose to- to total lo lota tat tal ta consumption Is comparatively small and a ugh tigh Investment per USer Is y ti Farmers lOW ow must pay rela rela- relatively rela- rela relatively lively higher prices tor for electricity than those wt wh live In thickly set set- set lied tied communities I So Bo high Is this cost that many contend the elec elec- electrification Clec- Clec electrification of ot o the majority oL of American farms Is Impossible By decentralizing the he population population tion lon and up th thi rural dis- dis districts district dis districts the forms farms willbe close enough to al allow ow cheap Bringing super super- superpower superpower power powel ro to tho the farms will enrich the rural community and make malte It attractive enough to encourage rapid decentralization decentralisation go 00 |