Show current sends farm to high efficiency cooperatives that distribute cl are bringing about a quiet re revolution v blut io n in the rural areas of america knox T hutchinson assistant secretary of ag told the wisconsin rural electric cooperative association recently he pointed out that more than five million farms or 85 are electrified in the country and only about remain without service indicating the importance of electricity in defense production product iO n the assistant secretary declared that electric power has known uses on the farm and that farmers are constantly discovering more ingenious ways to employ that power in dairy areias areas for example as much as one half of all the coop power consumed goes directly into pro auction in the operation of the sterilizers cooling equipment ment feed grinding hay dry ing silo filling and the like and electricity is helping to turn over a new leaf in the nations thinking about life on the farm not so long ago the farm without c electrical I 1 conveniences was considered merely a place on which to make a living many people including the younger generation are fast coming to recognize the farm 1 today as a choice place on which to live |