16 New Hampshire Experiment Station [Bulletin 228 



FARM NO. 4 (RETAIL DAIRY) 



DESCRIPTION 



Three to four-man farm. Family of six adults. Twelve room house. 

 Large dairy bam with silo, bottling room, dairy wash room, refrigerator 

 room, carnage house, and horse stable. 190 acres of which 65 acres are tillable. 

 27 head of cattle, 19 milked, 2 horses, 1 delivery truck, 1 pleasure car, modern 

 machinery. Farm purchases some milk from near-by farm and retails 300 quarts 

 daily in city two miles distant. Buildings wired in 1919 from near-by line with- 

 out construction costs. Transformer of 10 K.V.A. capacity. 



EQUIPMENT COSTS 



The following inventory of equipment shows new installations in Italics: 

 Light Circuit Equipment 



1. Wiring house and barns $215 . 00 



2. House lights — 42 outlets, average 40 watt lamps 16.80 



3. Barn lights — 9 outlets, average 40 watt lamps 3.60 



4. Washing machine (March, 1926) 155.00 



5. Sewing machine motor drive (Aug., 1926) 22.40 



6. Curling iron $2.75; (7) Toaster $6.00; (8) Percolator $8.00 16.75 



9 & 10. Radiant Heaters $12.00 & $8.00; (11) Battery Charger $16.50.. 36.50 



12. Oscillating Fan (Oct., 1926) 21 . 15 



13. Vacuum Cleaner (June, 1926) • 59.50 



14. Separator Motor equipment 47 . 00 



Group Total $593 70 



Heat Circuit. (Installation of the heating circuit wiring is included in the fol- 

 lowing installation costs) : — - 



15. Combination coal-electric range $227 . 50 



Installation costs (Dec, 1925) 142.61 



16. Ironer 129.00 



Installation costs (Aug., 1926) 29.20 



17. Flat Iron 6.75 



18. Hot water heater 64 . 50 



Installation costs (June, 1926) 11 .78 



19. Combination dairy cooling room & household refrigerator, new 



cooling room, construction (material & labor) 234.50 



MecJianical equipment (installed price) 510.80 



Electrical connections (May, 1926) 21 .20 



Group Total $1377 84 



Power Circuit. Special circuit wiring $41 .30 



20. Milking machine motor 75 00 



Installation 30.00 



21. Deep well pump (Nov., 1925) 331 . 92 



Installation, Plumbing $33.40; Electric $11.10 44.50 



Group Total $ 522.72 



All equipment total $2494.26 



DISTRIBUTION OF EQUIPMENT COSTS 



Lighting Heating Power Household Farmstead 



Per cent of appliances 66 7 23.8 9.5 80.9 19.1 



Per cent of total cost 23.8 55.3 20 9 51.8 48.2 



Per cent of circuit cost 



for appliances 88. 83. 78. 



Per cent of circuit cost 



for installation 12. 17. 22. 



Of the total equipment cost 83% is for appliances and 17% for installation. 



Farm No. 4 — Current Consumption and Costs. During the year 1925 only a 

 lighting circuit was in use operating lights, milking machine and minor devices. 

 Three separate circuits and all the equipment listed were in operation in 1926, ex- 



