March, 1927] Electricity on New England Farms 25 



FARM NO. 7 (POULTRY) 



DESCRIPTION 



Three to four-man farm. Family of five adults and one child. Twelve room 

 house, three story poultry barn, machinery storage barn, four laying houses, 

 21 brooder houses, repair shop, pump house and ice house. 184 acres of which 

 70 are tillable. 2600 laying hens, 15,000 broilers and an annual hatch of 20,000 

 chicks. 3 horses, 1 cow, 1 delivery truck. 1 pleasure car, modern machinery, 

 6,000 egg incubator, using coal-hotwater heat. 450 apple trees. Broilers and 

 fresh eggs shipped to Boston and New York. Farm two miles from town. 

 Buildings wired over 10 years without extra line cost. Transformer of 10 K.V.A. 



EQUIPMENT COSTS 



The following inventory shows new equipment in Italics. 

 Light Circuit Equipment 



1. Wiring house and buildings (estimated) $400.00 



2. House lights— 40 outlets 16.00 



3. Barn lights— 20 outlets 8.00 



4. Washing machine 155.00 



5. Percolator $7.50; (6) Curling Iron $3.00; (7) Toaster $5.00 15.50 



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



9. Radiant Heater $9.50; (10) Vacuum (leaner $60.00 69.50 



Croup Total $686.40 



Heat Circuit Equipment 



General Wiring on heat circuit $107.43 



11. Kitchen range (June, 1926) 244.00 



Installation cost 82.70 



12. Household refrigeration 495.00 



Installation cost (May, 1926) 25.20 



13. Ironer (June, 1926) 160.00 



Installation cost 8.68 



14. Hot water heater— (June, 1926) 64.50 



Installation cost 19.18 



15. Flat Iron 5.25 



Group Total $1211.94 



Power Circuit Equipment. 



16. Motor drive for water pump (June, 1926) $109.75 



Installation cost including 12 pole extension 162.92 



17. Motor drive, for shop equipment (June, 1926) 75.00 



Installation cost 16.70 



18. Feed mixer and elevator 175.00 



Installation cost (Oct., 1926 and Jan., 1927) 59 00 



19. Ultra-violet ray equipment ( Experimental only) 150 00 



20. 5 h. p. portable utility motor (July, 1926) 275.00 



Installation cost 23.42 



21. Han fork hoist 122.77 



Installation cost (July, 1926) 7.83 



Group Total $1177.39 



All equipment — total $3075.73 



DISTRIBUTION OF EQUIPMENT COSTS 



Lighting Heating Power Household Farmstead 



Per cent of appliances 47.6 23.8 28.6 66 6 33.4 



Per cent of total cost 22.8 38.2 39. 55.8 44.2 

 Per cent of circuit cost 



for applances 80.6 80. 77.2 

 Per cent of circuit cost 



for installation 19.4 20. 22.8 



Of the total equipment cost 81.5% is for appliances and 18.5% for installation. 



