Nov. 2, 190S.] AgiHCidtural Gazette of N.S.JV. 887 



shop risk of fire amongst the shavings is avoided by heating the glue-pot by 

 electricity ; the laundry is fitted up with electric irons, and there are electric 

 fans in the dining-room ; in the chemical laboratory an electric motor 

 developes gas for heating, and the centrefuge for soil analysis is driven by 

 elf'ctricity ; the lectnre-room is heated by electric radiators, and electric light 

 is used for the demonstration 

 lanterns ; in the poultry-yard tlie 

 incubators are being made electro- 

 thermic. 



In connection with the scheme 

 for important irrigation works 

 shortly to be established on a 

 portion of the Hawkesbury Col- 

 lege Farm, it has been decided 

 that the pumping is to he effected 

 by electric p'lwer. Additional 



machinery will be erected at the 

 present lighting station to raise 

 the pressure required to ti-ansmit 

 the current to the pumping station. 



The rapidity with which in this 

 country electric power and light 

 is being taken on in all directions, 

 except in the agrarian industries, 

 is remarkable ; and we may confi- 

 dently prophesy that, with the 

 increasing perfection of this kind 

 of plant, and with its superiority 

 over the old systems, the conser- 

 vative prejudice against its intro- 

 duction by agi'iculturists and 

 pastoralists will gradually he over- 

 come. One great drawback to 

 the more general use of tl)e com- 

 pact oil-engine dynauio is the pro- 

 hibitive railway freight on tiie 

 feeding material. The freight on 

 kerosene and other oil is from two 

 and a half to three or four times 

 that on agricultural i)roduce, 

 according to the quantity and 

 distance. This militates airainst 



the efforts of engineers and supplying firms to pusli a l)usiness in i\\v rural 

 districts. In respect to spirit as a motor fuel the regulations of our Distilla- 

 tion Act form another bar to the more general introduction of small power 

 jilant on farms. In Germany considerable latitude is given by the Government, 



VT HRINIER 

 N.S.W 



Electric Motcr workin; various applances in the 

 Dairy, at the Hiwkesbury Agricultural Co'lege, 

 Richiriond, N.S.W. 



