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LIGHTING UP A STATE 



E\V HAMPSHIRE leads the coun- 

 try in the percentage of its farm homes 

 electrified. This fact is not an accident. 

 It results from the recognition by power 

 companies of the value of the farm load 

 and their willingness to meet organized 

 farmers half-way in the extension ot 

 lines. Behind the whole movement rests 

 the research into use of electricity on 

 the farm, conducted by the Experiment 

 Station in 1925-30. The New Hamp- 

 shire Station was selected to represent 

 the New England area by the National 

 Committee on the Relation ot Elec- 

 tricity to Agriculture. 



Milk cooling proved one of the important uses 

 of electricity. Total constitnption on the ex- 

 perimental farms reached an ultimate average 

 of ^28 kilowatt hours a ynonth 



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