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Show ELEDHUCTTY TO 00 FARM WORK Very Little Heavy Labor That 'White Coal' Can't Accomplish STOCKHOLM, May 20. (By the Associated Press.) The Swedish go -ernment has been requested to es-' es-' tablish a model electrified farm to be located, if possible, near Stock- holm. In view of the fact ,that more than one-third of agricultural Sweden la I now electrified it Is proposed that 1 the model farm be as nearly 100 per r.-nt electrically operated as possible so that Swedish farmers, who are now In a position to change horse for electric power, may be enabled to view demonstrations of how "white -oal" can be utilized I nthe countr' The request for the electrified mod I farm comes from the National ASSO .l.itb.n of Electrification of Rural Sweden. In Its communication to the I government this body points out the necessity foe, training Swedish farmers farm-ers In making use of electrical power It proposes that farm electrification be mude a special subject of study at .'the agricultural schools and colleges , of the country. It Is proposed that the model farm I be fully equipped with all the latest ehctrlc agricultural devices, so that : the farmers may see electrically op-' op-' erated plows, harrows, seeders, har- vesters and threshing machines Mo-' Mo-' tors of different sizes will drive the milk separators and the churn. The n.-w electric device which passes an electric current through an ensilage ' of cattle fodder to Increase Its nutrt-, nutrt-, tlve value is to be shown. I There Is very little Heavy labor on j Swedish farms, heretofore performed I by man or beast, which machines operated by electric current cannot do. and more than a third of the I Swedish farmers can operate their I farms by electricity if they under-! under-! stand tho elementary principles of electrical science. Naturally, the ag-i ag-i ricultnral population needs eonsidera- blc, training before full advantage can 1 be taken of the wonderfully cheap i power furnished by the many waterfalls water-falls and rapids which have of late been harnessed. oo |