No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 475 



••Jn the creamery, where the milk from tweuty-hve cows is mimu 

 lia tured into butter, there is a separator which must be turued 

 7,400 revolutions a minute morning and evening till the milk of 

 the Aviiole herd has gone through it. A small motor — half horse- 

 Ijower — was mounted so as to be convenient, to this and connected 

 to it by a belt. It did the work to perfection, and the first crank- 

 handle was thrown away. 



"To make the action more complete, a bucket of water was trip- 

 ped ove< the separator, and a float arranged to break the circuit 

 when the last of the milk ran out. Now, when the separator pro- 

 cess ends, the motor is automatically shut off, the water dumped in, 

 the motor started again for a m.oment, and the separator rinsed and 

 emptied, all without a hand being put to it. 



"The churn, a big barn^l afl'air, was mounted on a swivel plat- 

 form, and brought into line with the same motor; and then a grind- 

 stone, the terror of the farm, was added. 



"The hand-pump which furnished water to the house tank in the 

 attic was discarded, and the little motor took over that task. Wood 

 was still burned in the kitchen. A larger motor was acquired, 

 coupled to a saw, and the job of sawing wood was lightened of 

 its labor. 



"Electrical flat-irons were provided for the kitchen; electric fans, 

 a motor-driven freezer and an electric cooker will be added for the 

 summer comfort. 



"Only a small part of the power of the creek is used as yet, but 

 plans are under way for increasing, to the accomplishment of other 

 farm tasks, the ready service of the little creek which for sc many 

 vears ran idlv bv the farm, waiting to be harnessed." 



What I said ?ix years ago, in an address to the citizens of Frank- 

 lin county, Pennsylvania, I believe will apply, to a more or less ex- 

 tent, to nearly all the counties of this Commonwealth: 



"I have found by careful observation and examination that your 

 streams are capable of generating enough electrical power to not 

 only run every train of the Cumberland Valley and Western Mary- 

 land, but fifty times the machinery now employed from mountain 

 range to mountain range, and from the Potomac to the Sustjuehanna, 

 with enough over to illuminate not only every street of every town, 

 but every country road and by-lane. And then enough left to light 

 up every building almost as brightly as daylight, besides furnishing 

 motive power for every barn and house, and heat for every room of 

 home. Yea, more; and a surplus for other counties. And all this 

 not utilized because Aladdin's lamp though hanging low, is not 

 rubbed until the good genii appear, and ask what will you have 

 us do? In other words, the good people of your county are so con- 

 tented and happy with their peaceful lot compared with others of 

 their fellows, that the nubbin fruit is good enough, though golden 

 pippins hang just beyond. 



"The New Franklin County. 



"Permit me one concluding picture of Franklin county in the ideal 

 future — not the next century, but this. Every farm and home beau- 

 tified by Nature study; every business place a model patterned from 

 Scotch, Irish, German and American originality; every dwellinfi 



