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P tr XIII ELECTRICITY, FOR THE FARM. yJEARS ago when farmers were hitching lup -their best buggies and drivingto town for a Sunday afternoon visit, they discovered, that their city cousins were not using kero- selle lamps any more.. They marveled at the littie switch that flooded a. room, with ekctric ligbt. And, returning home, they envied this new invention that,,had been added to all the other convemiences of city life. Today things are changing. Electric service Jines no longer stop at the city limits. They parallel hundreds of country roads.' They branch off to deliver electricity to thousands -of farnms in northern Illinois. 0f course this extension must corne slowly. It is expensive worc> In towns and cities, -homes are compactly grouped twenty or more to the block. But in the co'untry they are scattereti perhaps two or three to the square mile. A Aile of wooden wire-strungî, poles that intecity can serve huùdreds. of:faLnilies$, mighr, in the country, serve ýonly six. And th 'cost of constructing the. Une is the saine So ffhar it might cooperate with farners t'O rural lines wil penetrate into mnost of the. im- .portant farmling sectionsof the seventeen councies served.by the Company. Short exten- sions fromn these' "artery"l lines can then bringz service to thriusands of additional farms in northern Illinois. Once avaijiable, this electriclty can find plenty cf work to da. Far more than nierely replacing kerosene lamps and lanrerns. It provides'heat for cooking, cold for cooling. It provides power for speeding through inost of the farm's tedioûs chores - in the, barns and farmyard as well as the house. To demonstrate the possibilities of electrifiud farming, the Public Service Company operates a model farm in Lake County, a few miles West of Mundelein. This 80-acte tract is open for inspection every day. Here electric motors maybe seen pwnping water, grinding grain,, cutting eçnsilage andi filling the silo, rnilkng. cows and hatching chickens.... Advice on ail phases'of farming is.given, out by college- trained experts. Regular educational meetings. are scheduled for the discussion of timely peoblems. prw*otin TWO DCADE UN TE SEVIrC O NORTH ERN LLNous, 1= i. TWO E R ýv 1