Show electricity on farm fara galled CAW boon aboon to production west farmington 0 april 26 within seven years it is estimated that electricity on an average farm can increase by more than 61 per cent the money earn ed per hour of productive labor the idea promoted b by a practical electrification experiment on the joseph motz farm the evidence that farm electrification rifi cation more than pays its own way was contained in a report prepared i for westinghouse Electr electrics farm electrification de apartment part ment since 1944 when electric pow er first reached the acre motz farm records have been kept on the farms production and progress the report said intelligent use of electricity on a far farm in can an eliminate a great many man hours of hard work and do a bet ter job at considers con considerably sidera bly lower cost the experiment is being carried out under conditions identical to those faced by the average farmer motz bought new electrical electrical equipment at retail prices using only the profits of the farms operations to do it in 1944 the farm returned 66 cents for each hour of work he put into the various productive enterprises by 1950 the return had increased to for each hour of work by reducing the time required for basic farm operations erat ions motz and his son had more time for other enterprises or for leisure CASH RETURN BETTER the report pointed out that although farm prices have increased during the seven year period the cash return on the motz farm has kept kepi well ahead of the general rise in in prices received for all commodities motz said that although there is no such thing as a push button farming electricity has brov ed to be one of his most valuable and inexpensive hired hand help he said that unlike many other services the more of it he used the cheaper it becomes |