likely less laborious, but will it pay ? It is too 

 early to give satisfactory figures concerning the 

 results of the application of electricity to the grow- 

 ing of plants and vegetables, as experiments have 

 not yet been made on a sufficiently large scale to 

 furnish reliable statistics; but the smaller experi- 

 menters seem much encouraged, and some of them 

 are now engaging in electro-horticulture much more 

 extensively. 



As regards the use of electricity as a motive 

 power on the farm, the experiments have reached 

 the stage where figures can be safely given in its 

 favor. Recently Julius Muth, United States Con- 

 sul in Mecklenburg, Germany, gives some interest- 

 ing figures concerning a farm near that place run 

 entirely by electricity. The dynamo furnishing 

 the current is driven by a turbine whose power is 

 furnished by a small brook, and the electricity is 

 stored up in an accumulator of sixty-six large cells. 

 The yearly expenses of running the farm under the 

 old system were $1713.60, while under the elec- 

 tric system they were reduced to $1492. 



Although it was not our intention to consider the 

 application of electricity to the machinery of the 

 farm in this little book, yet we give room to a state- 

 ment of Otto Doederlein, United States Consul at 

 Leipsic, in his report to the Department of State, 

 in 1895, concerning " The Electric Plow in Ger- 

 many." He says, after giving elaborate figures: 

 " It is thus evident that the working expenses of 

 the electric plow for extensive husbandry amount 

 to less than half of those incurred in working the - 



