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his own. The proposition is not so difficult as it sounds. 

 Two-horsepower plants are manufactured for this very 

 purpose. But there is more to it than buying a dy- 

 namo and a few lamp bulbs. A farm electric system 

 should supply power to run all of the light stationary 

 machinery about the farm, and that means storage 



Figure 129. Electric Power Plant. A practical farm generator 

 and storage battery, making a complete farm electric plant that will 

 develop and store electricity for instant use in any or all of the 

 farm buildings. 



batteries, and the use of one or more small electric mo- 

 tors. There are several ways to arrange the plant, 

 but to save confusion it is better to study first the stor- 

 age battery plan and to start with an engine large 

 enough to pump water and run the dynamo at the same 

 time. It is a good way to do two jobs at once you 

 store water enough in the supply tank to last twenty- 

 four or forty-eight hours, and at the same time you 



