iVoy. 2, ,1908.] Agricultural G-azette of N.S.W. S85 



Portable Motor connected with Chaff-cutter in a left on a 

 German farm.— Illustration by Siemens Bros., Ltd. 



Next in iuiportanct' is llie farmhouse teleplionc. In llip United States 

 the official weather forecast is communicated daily to every subscriber on 

 the circuit. A few weeks ago we learned how warning of the ap| roach of a 

 disastrous flood was conveyed 

 to the settlers by means of 

 the ti-lephone, and how the 

 lieroic o,ierator lost her life 

 while remaining at her post 

 to complete her duty of com- 

 municating the dread intelli- 

 gence. 



On a farm in New York 

 State electricity generated 

 from wa'er-power saws timber, 

 cuts up fodder, and lights the 

 homestead and premises. At 

 a summer hotel farm, 25 miles 

 from New York, an electric 

 plant d t i v es wash ing machi nes, 



bails swampy pools, crushes stone, and does lighting and lifting for the hotel; 

 it also works a bottle-washer, churn, cream-separator, buffer-worker, can- 

 scrubb^ r, and ice-crusher. 



Electric motors for farm travel and driving machinery, such as thresher.", 

 are said to be less expensive than steam-power. Two electrical com- 

 panies in Kent and Gloucester (England) are pushing a business with the 

 farm^-rs. In the South of Fr.tnce, w'here water-power for generating the 

 current is available, electrical farming is found to be profitable, and on the 

 Continent generally they appear to be in advance of England and America 

 in this respect. At Summern, a portable motor is attached to three machines 

 and curs up in one hour 1,430 lb. of carrots, crushes 1,100 lb. of linseed cake, 

 aiid lifts water to the stables. Disconnected, it goes to the fields where it 

 drives a threshing machine and a chaff-cutter. An electric plough used suci ess- 

 fully near Turin, travels 1,000 feet in eight minutes, turning three furrows 



at a time, ar a good depth. 



In scientific fai-ming pump- 

 ing apparatus plays an impor- 

 tant part. First we had the 

 windmill pump ; now the elec- 

 tric pump is the watering-pot 

 of the south-west of the 

 American States. Very fre- 

 (juently the windmill, gas, or 

 other iiH'tor is now employed 

 i-itj,^^,^:,-: ./' _ _~.lr:..s:L..c^:i.;r ''.. to generate the electricity. 



Land which foimerly was of 



Portable Motor attached io Winnower on a German farm. . - 



Illustratiou by Siemebs Bros., Lt.l. bttlc or no Value IS nOW ot 



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