March, 1927] 



Electricity ox New England Farms 



FARM NO. 1 (RETAIL DAIRY) 



DESCRIPTION 



Four-man farm. Family of 4 adults. 2 children. Ten room brick house. 

 Large dairy barn with silos attached, large implement shed containing 

 ice house; other out-buildings. 175 acres of river bottom land, level and 

 free of stone. 45 head of cattle, 36 milked, 3 horses. 2 tractors, 1 Ford delivery 

 truck, pleasure car, modern machinery. Farm retails 300 quarts of milk and 

 cream a day in village two miles distant. House and barns wired about seven 

 years with no line construction cost. Two transformers of 10 K.V.A. capacity 

 used in parallel to balance load. A new rate schedule with one master meter 

 permits use of any appliance properly wired and fused. 



EQUIPMENT COSTS 



The following inventory gives each item of electrical equipment in use, with 

 its original purchase juice and cost of installation, if any. New equipment is 

 shown in Italics with date of installation in parentheses. 



Household Equipment. 



1. Wiring of house and barns including fixtures $325.00 



2. 

 3. 

 4. 



5. 



7. 



s. 

 II. 



10. 



It. 



12. 



Wiring of tenant house 



Flat Iron 



Fireless Cooker 



Percolator $9.50; (6) Curling Iron $4.00 (March, 1926) 



Washing Machine (Dec, 1925) 



Vacuum Cleaner (April, 1926) 



Household Refrigerator 



Installation Lahor and Material (Aug., 1926) 



Kitchen Range 



Installation Labor and Material (Dec, 1925) 



Hot Wad /■ //i ater 



Installation Labor and Mat; rial (June, 1926) 



Sewiitij Machine Motor (Aim.. 1926) 



Group Total 



Farmstead Equipment. 



13. Milking Machine Motor (not metered until July, 1925) 



14. 



15. 



16. 



17 

 18 

 19 

 20 

 21 



22 



Installation Labor and Material .... 



( 'nam Separator — Motor Kquipment 



1V-> H. P. Portable Utility Motor 



Installation Costs (July. 1926) 



Water Pump — Owner's House 



Tank 48x72 . ._ 



Installation Incidentals (Dec, 1925) 



Water Pump — Tenant House (June, 1926) 



Hay Hoist (July, 1925) 



W-2 H. P. Shop Motor (not connected) 



Yard and Building Flood Light (not connected) 



Concrete and Fertilizer Mixt r (tested only) 



Dairy Cooling Room (April, 1926) 



M> chanical Equipment — Instalh d price 



Room Const ruction and Insulation (Materia! and Labor) 



75 00 

 8.50 



37 00 



13.50 

 155 00 



39 50 

 250 00 



24 09 

 225 00 



87.00 

 132 50 



33 40 



18.50 



$1423.99 



$100 00 

 17.40 

 35.00 



325 00 

 12.10 

 87.20 



138 00 

 7.00 



125 00 



130 00 

 82 80 

 29 70 

 57.00 



510 SO 

 194.45 



Group Total $1851.45 



All equipment total $3275 . 44 



DISTRIBUTION OF EQUIPMENT COSTS 



Per cent of appliances 

 Per cent of total cost 

 Per cent of circuit cost 



for appliances 

 Per cent of circuit cost 



for installation 



Lighting 

 45 4 

 24 9 



84.1 



15.9 



Heating 

 27 3 

 45 9 



90.4 



9 6 



Power 

 27 3 

 29.2 



96.2 



3.8 



Household 

 54 5 

 43 4 



Farmstead 

 45.5 

 56.6 



Of the total equipment cost 89.6% is for appliances and 10.4 r / for installation. 



