Would Have 



Electricity 



At Any Price 



FOR COOLER KITCHENS 

 "Why not give our wWas modam aquipmMitT" 



/7 HAVE just read your article on 



1)1 "How Much Is a Wife Worth?" 

 \^ I think you are on the right track. 

 I want to say first that they had better 

 not start a power line past my place. I 

 would have the electricity at any price the 

 company would have the nerve to ask. 



I am a young farmer twenty-five years 

 old — been married five years. I have 

 put out four crops and only harvested 

 one good one — that was in '37 — but 

 I managed to live and pay for my equip- 

 ment. 



To show what I think of electric lights, 

 I bought an old 32 volt generator and 

 belted it up to a Cushman engine that I 

 already had. I then bought some small 

 light plant batteries, wired the house 

 with the landlady's permission and we 

 have lights, radio and electric washer. 

 I made this light plant 18 months ago 

 and we have been without lights only 

 one night. My wife was raised in a 

 small town and I feel that abundance 

 of light and heat in any home makes for 

 a happier life. 



I suppose that I have been spoiled by 

 now with our light plant, but a farmer 

 who is in darkness just doesn't realize 

 that he is standing in his own light when 

 he says he cannot afford to pay $5 for 

 electricity on his farm. 



I say why not give our wives some of 

 this modern equipment? We men have 

 modern tractors, plows, discs, combines 

 and mechanical corn pickers. 



And yet I suppose there might be a 

 few who say $5.00 a month is too much 

 to pay for our wive's convenience even 

 when we men would use more than half 

 of it. And with rural electrification my 

 only complaint is, it isn't getting close 

 enough to me. 



Granville White, 

 Hancock County, Illinois. 



Wants Electricity 



I have read your very interesting letter 

 or article about "Is a Well and Happy 

 Farm Wife Worth 15.00 a Month?" I 



would say she would be worth her weight 

 in gold no matter how much she weighed. 



But first of all that kind of a wife 

 must enjoy electricity in her home and on 

 the farm. We have been trying to figure 

 out how we can get electricity through 

 our country here. 



I wish it would become a law compel- 

 ing every landowner whether he rents 

 his farm or not to have electricity. We 

 own our own farm and the high line 

 is within 2 or 3 miles of us. Must so 

 many people or landowners sign up on 

 a mile in order to get it installed on 

 their places ? 



One rich old duffer that lived on a 

 farm, then moved to town, then back on 

 his farm again, said, "Why do people 

 want electricity on a farm?" He is a 

 neighbor of ours and one of the draw- 

 backs to getting electricity. President 

 Roosevelt wants us all to enjoy the mod- 

 ern conveniences especially in rural dis- 

 tricts. 



We have lived on our farm 20 years 

 and are still burning kerosene and drag- 

 ging a lantern out to our barns at nights. 

 And we live in one of the richest coun- 

 ties of Illinois, if not the richest in the 

 northern part of this state. I wish we 

 could have some meetings to decide what 

 we can get, and not what can't be done. 



If Robert Ripley were here and we 

 would tell him we wanted electricity he 

 would say it can be done. But I guess 

 someone has to start the ball rolling. I 

 expect the problems here are the same as 

 in lots of other communities. 



Nothing ventured nothing gained. 

 You asked for ideas. I don't know of any 

 idea more important than what can we 

 do to obtain electricity in this part of 

 Ogle county. 



I have been putting off ideas about 

 buying irons, stoves, lamps and many 

 other modern appliances hoping that we 

 get electricity. I want a new electric 

 iron not a new gasoline iron and would 

 like to have water pumped into our 

 house but not with a gasoline engine. 



I don't know how much I as a wife 

 would be worth if I had electricity in 



the home but I could say that my husband 

 would be worth ten dollars a month 

 more than he is now if he could enjoy 

 electricity in his buildings where he does 

 most of his work and also in the home. 

 I haven't any new ideas but I do know 

 that our family and others near us would 

 like electricity in our homes. I guess 

 somebody has to get out an get the people 

 together in the community. 



Mrs. Henry Busker, 

 Ogle County, Illinois. 



Every Issue Fine 



I greatly enjoyed the March issue of the 

 RECORD in which considerable space was 

 given to the development and operation of 

 milk selling organizations in the state. The 

 RECORD has improved considerably in 

 make-up, appearance and copy — and I am 

 not referring particularly to the recent dairy 

 copy. Every issue is fine. 



A. D. Lynch, Secretary-Manager 

 Sanitary Milk Producers 



New Manager 



L. H. Nesemeier became manager of the 

 Kendall County Oil 

 Company and the 

 Grundy Service Com- 

 pany, April 1. He 

 succeeds E. D. Cooke. 

 The companies have a 

 joint management con- 

 tract. Mr. Nesemeier 

 was manager of the 

 Henderson Service 

 company for the past 

 two years. Before 

 that he was employed 

 by the Carroll Ser- 

 L. H. NasMoaiar vice Company. 



With costs averaging one cent for 100 

 gallons, water pumping is about the cheap- 

 est service Illinois farmers receive from elec- 

 trification, according to R. R. Parks, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 



The hydro-pneumatic water system is the 

 most popular in use on farms today. For 

 the home a 230-gallon-an-hour pump usual- 

 ly supplies the needs, but the stockman likes 

 to have a pump with a capacity of 350 gal- 

 lons an hour supplemented by a small pres- 

 sure tank." i. 





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