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Affriculturaf, Gazette of N.S. IF 



[Nov. 2, 190S. 



Portable Motor attached to Threshing Machine on % German 

 farm. Illii-traticiii liy Sieiueus liro.s., Ltil, 



enormous value l)otli foi- 

 iiraziriy pufposcs and for tViiit- 

 ^^t•o\vitll,^ 



In t his section scviral illus- 

 trations of electricity as 

 applied to farm operations in 

 Jiermany are from copies lent 

 InvMi'ssrs. Siemens I^ros., Ltd., 

 Lcntdon and Sydney. The 

 •extensive electric plant at the 

 H illgi'ove MininLC W Orks, the 

 power for whicli is carried 

 from a water source 20 miles 

 (hstant, was supplied hv this 

 tirin. 



14. Electricity in Farm household life and field work, in Australia. 



In Australia, electricity for illuminating' or (hi\iiii;' purposes is at present 

 little used on farms or stations. In this State it has been installed on Sir 

 Samuel McCaughey's homesteads at Yankoandat Coonong, in the Riveriiia ; 

 at Mr. R. J. Simpson's station, at Morduval, near Quirindi : at ]\Ir. G. Binnie's 

 station, near (.Quirindi, it is used for pumping as well as for lighting; on the 

 estate of Mr. H. R. Denison, hor.se-breeder, near Guntawang, in the ]\ludgee 

 district ; at Toonia, in the Upper Murray district, for lighting and dii\ing ; 

 at Butterbone Station, in the Warren district ; at Werrina, near Miiiigindi ; 

 and at Conargo Station, in tlie Riverina. 



At the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, in addition to the 

 whole of the 2^i'emi.ses being lighted by electricity, the current is also utilised 

 as a motive power for numer- 

 ous purposes. Ttiere is at the 

 lighting station a storage 

 battery, from which power is 

 distributed to the motors in 

 the dairy for separating milk, 

 and (h'iving churns, butter- 

 workers, and pumps ; in the 

 feed-room there is ;tn S horse 

 power motor for cracking 

 maize, and another motor for 

 shelling corn ; a portabl(> S 

 horse-jjower motor used for 

 cutting chaff at the hay.stacks 

 reduces the risk of fire; silajje 

 is also cut by electricity; 



pumps at the septic tank driven bv a motor raise 1l',()0() gallons of effluent 

 daily a height of 24 feet; wood is cut by this power,' and in the carpenter's 



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Plough worked to and fro in connection with two movable 

 electric motors on a German farm. lUnstnitiuu by 

 Siemens Bi-os., Ltd. 



