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Show PRIME UTILITIES OF Fill HOME Good Water Supply. Sewage System. Heating and Lighting Light-ing Essential A good water supply, a complete sewerage disposal plant and effective heating and lighting system! constitute consti-tute the four prime utilities of the farm home, declares farmers' bulletin No. 941, issued by the I'nlted States department of agriculture. To secure these ends in greatest measure, thought and planning ure necessary Electricity on the farm Is not a luxury, but n necessity, and It pays. It pas to have buildings and crops sale. It pays to have drudgery done by an electric motor and It pay.s t have the farm home bright and cheerful. cheer-ful. LSI BFUL Ml OR1 The present time Is one to consider every moans of conserving farm labor. Farm work may never be easy, but It can be made much easier and more profitable by the use of electricity, i (uniting up the hours spent In hand milking, cre.im separating, ohurnlng, washing, sweeping, pumping water and other farm chores, there Is an amazing total of wasted time and effort. The average farm woman works a few minutes more than thirteen hours out of the twenty-four during the summer and her dally average for the year Is eleven hours and eighteen minutes. min-utes. Half of the women on the farms are at work at 5 a. m i Briefly, here are some of the duties of the farm woman who has no electric elec-tric light or power at her disposal. j HOW IT WOKKs. On the farm where limps are used, cleaning the burners and trimming the wicks l a disagreeable Job that taki an hour of work a day. Electricity offers a much better light and an Immediate Im-mediate reduction In the flro Insurance rate. Next to electric light and its safety value is the great promise of freedom from water troubles In the farmhouse farm-house a good water supply is an absolute abso-lute necessity, saving time in the kitchen ond the mllkhouse and It puts an end to pumping. Without running water In the barn, the COWS and horsei must be driven to the brook twice dally, taking sixty hours a month, that the lack of water costs Water is one of the most important things that the electric plant brings to the farm home and to the barn On the farm where there are cowa to be milked It Is a discouraging struggle to get them milked. The men cannot always be spared from other work to do It. WOMEN'S sn.YTLE. Of every 100 women on farm. 36 of them help with tho milking, while 79 of them trim and fill kerosene lamps ancf all but four do the family washing The women feed the poultry poul-try on the farm stnd usually the corn is shelled each day as they feed It This Is a mean Job. but with a motor to drive the shellcr, a week's supply of corn can be shelled in less time .than a day's supply shelled In any J other way. In short, work on the farm is not Just raising crops. There Is a never-ending never-ending round of choree to be done that take time and labor. The modern mod-ern farmer knows he can no longer rely on hired help at all times, bQt j that ho must put more trust In machinery ma-chinery operated by electric power. PAUIn ECONOMICS A second survey of tho situation of the farm woman has Just been made ! under the direction of 'Miss Florence j K. Ward for the department of agriculture. agri-culture. In tier report, which Secretary Sec-retary Meredith has approved, Miss Ward points out that, aside from the Justice and principle Involved, it Is faulty economics to overburden the 1 women workers when help on the farm Is so hard to get. "At a time like this." she says, "when the deurth of farm labor la a limiting factor In production. It Is very doubtful business policy for farmers to use Increased Income to buy more land Instead of using part or it In raising standards of living " oo |