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FLIP THE SWITCH. GRIND FEED AS YOU USE IT 

 A. E. Becker, president, Menard Electric Co- 

 operative, explains operation of a high-speed ham- 

 mer mill. 



NO MORE STOKING A KITCHEN RANGE — 

 says Mrs. Council. She'll have more time for her 

 great-grandchildren. 



irrigation experiments. Perliaps electric 

 power will result in a new form of crop 

 insurance. Maybe it will change farming 

 methods in some parts of the corn belt. 

 At any rate it will be interesting to watch 

 the outcome of Ainsworth"s water control 

 studies which have been made possible 

 through economical power. 



Similar events took place in the south- 

 ern part of Sangamon county where the 

 lines of the Rural Convenience Co-opera- 

 tive have been energized. Some of the 

 families on these lines have alre.idy 

 learned the advantages of automatic re- 

 frigerators, stoves and pumps. 



.Mrs. I:. C. Kiplinger, wife of the co- 

 op's president, saved as much as her 

 power bill for two months through time- 

 ly use of her new refrigerator. When 

 rain cime one morning a few weeks ago 

 and stopped threshing operations on the 

 Kiplinger place. Mrs. Kiplinger had a 

 $6 beef roast almost ready to serve the 

 threshers. 



The men went home before dinner 

 ani.i tlie Kiplingers faced eighteen monot- 

 onous meals of beef hash. But Mrs. 

 Kiplinger avoided that. She put the 

 whole meal, already cooked into her re- 

 frigerator. There it remained three days 

 when it was taken out. heated and served. 

 Although storing meals was a new ex- 

 perience for this farm woman it is com- 

 mon practice where electric.' 1 refrigera- 

 tion is available. 



Members of the Menard Plectric Co- 

 operative can purchase all kinds of elec- 

 trical equipment on a co-operative basis 

 through the newly organized Menard 

 Appliance Company. The Rural Elec- 

 tric Convenience Co-operative is offering 

 similar service to its members. 



Both companies report increasing sales 

 of new ec]uipment. During August, re- 

 frigerators were the most popular. Mo- 

 tors and pumps to be used in connection 

 with farm water systems sold fast, too. 

 Several small hammer mills, capable of 

 grinding feeds as they are used, were sold 

 to replace the larger tractor-powered 

 types. 



Power costs are small when it is 

 brought to the farm the co-op way. And 

 the more power a farmer uses the less it 



costs him per kilowatt hour. The first 

 charge is a membership fee, usually 

 S5.00. Then there is a minimum month- 

 ly rate of about S^.^0 for to kilowatt 

 hours. 



There is nothing mysterious nor com- 

 plicated about the term "Kilowatt Hour. ' 

 It is simply a unit of energy, measure- 

 ment just as a gallon is a unit of volume- 

 measurement. VC'e say a car, tr.ivcls 20 

 miles on a gallon of gasoline. And-ue 

 say a bulb burns 20 hours per kilowatt 

 hour of electricity. 



Power companies find that the heavier 

 the load on their lines the cheaper thcv 

 can furnish power to consumers. To 

 make greater use of power more attrat 

 tive and to make a larger line load, com 

 panies offer lower rates for all current 

 used in any month over a specified 

 amoimt. In order to set a fair rate, 

 power dealers, including co-opcrative^. 

 employ a "block" system or sliding scale 

 of charges. 



Rates offered bv the C^entral Illinois 

 Public Service Company arc fairly typical 

 Users pay SI for the first 12 kilowatt 

 hours of energy. They pay 7I<, cents 

 each for the next 25 K.W.H. If thc-v 

 use more, thev get the second block ol 

 25 K.W H. at a five cent rate. For all 

 kilowatt hours over Ci~. the users pav 

 only three cents each. 



This is the way it s figured on a month 

 ly basis; 



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 Flet trie iron 

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Average rate, 4.73 cents per kilowatt 

 hour. 



This user reduced his rate from H 1 5 

 cents per kilowatt hour for the first 12 

 units to less than 5 cents for the total 

 units used. All additional appli.ances 

 would be operated on the three cent rate 



Another first cost is wiring. This 

 varies with the number of outlets re- 

 quired, the distance from the line to the 

 buildings, the distance between build- 

 (Conlinued on pjf,e 23) 



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IT PUMPS IRRIGATION WATER 

 FOR CORN 

 A portable motor, large enough to run 

 a silo filler, on Ralph Ainsworth's farm. 



APPLIANCES GOING TO FARMS — 

 a common scene after the power was 

 turned on. 



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