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teurize the milk, manufacture ice and freeze the ice 

 cream. 



Probably the housewife would next consider the 

 laundry equipment the most important. There is no 

 other source of energy so adapted to laundry work as is 

 electricity. The drudgery of the wash-day is done 

 away with when one is not compelled to turn a washing 

 machine. 



Electricity on the farm not only lessens the drudg- 

 ery for poor old mother, but helps every individual and 

 department. Think of the number of fires which occur 

 every year, because some lantern happened to be tipped 

 over in the barn. Too often lanterns are hung on un- 

 reliable nails in places where, if a horse should happen 

 to upset one, the result would be the burning of the 

 barn. There is but one solution of this problem; that 

 is the use of electricity, and motors can be used in the 

 barn for running the clipper, feed elevator or the milk- 

 ing machine. Electricity might still be used for vari- 

 ous other important duties upon the farm, such as 

 cleaning grain, in the shop for running the forge, drill 

 press, emery wheel, grindstone, turning lathe, trip ham- 

 mer, for electric welding, and for vulcanizing automo- 

 bile tires. 



DARIUS GREE1T AND PROFESSOR LANGLEY. 



At least one consideration should be kept in view, 

 namely, that a source of power which is so universal 

 and so inexhaustible as that of moving air currents, 

 ought not to bo neglected. The farmer now regards 

 the air only as a carrier of moisture, and sometimes of 

 storm and tornado. He looks upon moving air with 

 some suspicion, because at the present time it causes 

 him apparently more damage than good. But this is 



