224 HOW TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY 



a dynamo that will carry power for lighting his 

 house and operating his machinery. 



You can scarcely overestimate the advantage of 

 some such power in removing every sentiment of 

 drudgery from daily life. It will run the feed mills, 

 the pumps, the threshing machines, the corn shellers ; 

 indoors, it will wash the dishes and do the cleaning 

 as well as carpet and floor scrubbing. It fits nicely 

 to the work done in the shop, beside doing some of 

 the shop work. 



I note that two neighbors in central New York 

 have secured power enough from a brook, that for 

 ages has only tumbled down a glen and run through 

 a meadow, to light all their buildings, do a large 

 share of the home work and after harnessing it, 

 they have sold power to their neighbors. From 

 western New York comes a story that shows how half 

 a dozen or more country home makers can cooperate 

 to the same end. It goes a long way toward solving 

 the terrible help problem, not only in the field but in 

 the kitchen. The housewife can get more work out 

 of a brook than out of a dozen Bridgets. 



In my Florida home we are making our sixty-five- 

 foot well cooperate with a gasoline engine and dy- 

 namo, not only to serve water for the household, but 

 to give us electric lights, independent of any town or 

 neighborhood plant. Mr. F. O. Kennedy, of Or- 

 ange County, Vt, reports that his wife cooks, washes, 

 and irons, besides running a vacuum cleaner, by elec- 

 tricity, while he separates milk and milks his cows 



