ELECTRICITY FOR FARMING PURPOSES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2343, 16 July 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

ELECTRICITY FOR FARMING PURPOSES.

In.i paper read by Mr Hu. of L-.ndon C on-y, St. Alban*, on “ Harve-tiag," before tii- L .nd-m Farmers ‘"lob, an interesting ace--:nt wai riven by the lectur-i of tb- employment -f electricity as a motive l-tw.-r on the Hatti-ln -stat-, belonging to the Marquis of S.ijohnrv. It apjiears that --■otncity is es-d at Hatfield for many porItiio -levators for buiidingth* hay and corn stacks being S. or I—l iiy its means. Arrangements ha re also been made to thresh liy e!—.lncity. Tms [-ivver is oiitaided from a w-abr-wh-cl in a central p .-ition. and Carried by wires wherever itis required. Mr Shillietoe, the resident cn-in-er at Hatfield, supplies some details. He states:—“We are using electrical power for pumping sewage lor puqtose of irrigating the higher lands. This is most useful, as the js.wer obtained from the river running through the estate can lie had for nothing. We not only ii'- the power for thre-hiugand for working th-elevators, but we employ it at a much greater distance from the river—one and a hal, mile-—for cutting the rough grasses into chaff for ensilage, which has proved! great success. The same t-jvver is also used at a farmstead half a mile from the river for grinding all the barley, maize. &c.for cattle feeding. ' 11 thus seems that there is no limit to the use of cheap eb-ctric power wherever worp is required to be done thanks to lister [lower. —Iron.