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A PAPER read by F. E. Rowland at the Royal Agricultural Show, Southampton, on July-7 and printed by the B.E.D.A. (British Electrical Development Association, Inc.) of 15 Savoy Street, W.C.2, gives helpful hints to farmers as to the best way to apply electricity to their farms. The price of the unit is taken as 2d., and when it can be obtained at this price a good case is made out for using electric power. In many eases when space is limited, as in stackyards, electric drive has many advantages. 18 sheep can be sheared per unit expended, or 45 horses groomed, or 12 horses clipped. Motors can be rolled from one part of a farm to another inside wooden drums. Excellent and economical methods are given of lighting farm buildings and roads. Electrically driven pumps provide automatically a plentiful supply of water for all purposes. The use of electric milkers which require a ½-h.p. motor is becoming widespread in England. In New Zealand 15,000 are in use. By the expenditure of one electric unit, 22 cows can be milked, 120 Ib. of butter churned, or 1000 bottles washed. Accurate data are given as to the effect of poultry lighting in stimulating egg production.
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Electricity and the Farmer. Nature 130, 504 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130504a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130504a0