Rural Electrification

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 45, 23 May 1930, Page 32

Rural Electrification

"[‘HERE are now at least one hundred known uses and possibilities for electricity in the rural community, and electrification now -exists to a sufficient extent to insure further growth, if the farmer’s desire for electricity is encouraged by information of its possibilities. _ Apart from the benefit it confers upon the farmer himself, his wife and his home, it-should be definitély insttumental in stimulating the flow of workers from the towns toward the farms, since good wages for workers cannot be warranted until a day’s work on the farm produces as much profit as the effort of the factory worker over the same period. The output per man can only be increased by the assistance of ample power, the cost of which is infinitely small compared with the value of the time of the manual worker. Power aids production, and making the best use of electricity is undoubtedly a profitable business for the farmer, both indoors and outdoors.