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PAGE TWO 450 Ways To Use Electricity Ij Continued from Page One foot warmers. There are games, organs, pants and necktie pressers, pianos,; shoe polishers, sirens, scissors, tooth brushes, weiner roasters, dlor openers, and even window) openers, all operated with elec -1 Used In Homes }As you might suspect, electri cal appliances and equipment used in the home outnumber those used in farming operations. This partly explains why three fourths of all electricity con ?med on the farm today is used the home. .However, technological devel opments of electrical equipment $d the ever-increasing new es now promise to boost the use of electricity to undreamed ujl levels around the farm. New Ways of handling grain, feed, hfty. and even milk are fast amtiquating the fork, shovel. ► Congratulations... Albemarle Eleelrie Membership Corp. “|r’j on your Silver Jubilee Celebration SAVE IN MAY AT SEARS COMPLETE LINE OF Electric' Hanses, Erc'c'zers. Refrigerators. Washers, Air Conditioners, Dryers, Televisions and Many Other Electrical .Vpplianees. ONLY $5.00 DELIVERS Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back! Sears Catalog Sales Office PHONE 2186 APPLAUDING h ki 7"V' AA Membership Corporation ...on the 25th anniversary of Rural Electrification We have watched with pride your progress in making this a better community in which to live. This is not only true of your organization, but of each individual member who helps keep it growing for today and the future. Electric and Water Department The Town Os Edenton , milk can. and bucket, i Feed carriers, barn cleaners, ; silo unloaders, hay and grain dryers, nulls, grinder's, elevators, . graders, dusters, sprayers, fences. , jay traps, milkers, emery wheels. ■I pumps, and fans, are onlv a few 1 ■ of the many wavs electricity has) replaced the hired man on the) farm. , From molasses heaters to L peach defujuters. farmers are • making new and varied uses of . this unique and wonderful cow er that turns on and off aulo i matically or at the flip of a I switch. Electro-magnets for catching’ pieces of metal, walnut drvers, j ; bull exercisers, manure pumps.) ox-giub removers, cattle train-) • eis. orchard fans, sweet potato [ curers, beehive heaters, hog call ers. fish barriers, earthworm catchers, humane electrocution of, farm animals and poultry, andi , tank farming without soil all 1 {are some U ~ie m .e unique lor etecuicity on ~ie farm, j r armors laced w.,.i uie pioo i 1c .. ot getting .e neip o.i i.ie lorm, are new "elec uieal hands ’ a ia.r substitution tor the hired man. in laet the I symbol of rural electrification is) a loveable little ch.uacur called; Withe Wiredhand. r’ienty of 'over-ready electrical power. 5 [ i-eady at the flip ot a switch t > lbe converted into light, heal, «v , power is a must for the wide-, spread automation of work' around the farmstead. For instance, a single worker today in Georgia handles 30.000. broilers with ease. Another man in Florida cares for 10.000 lay ing hens and the 7,500 eggs they* 'shell out a day. Soilless Farming With With Electricity A hothouse method of soilless, farming in Illinois produces a ton of succulent green forage annually in a space onlv 2's fee; square. I A dairyman in California, us -1 ins a double herringbone milk THE CHOWAH HERALD, EDEMTOIt. WORTH CAHOUKA, THURSDAY. MAY 18, 1960. ing parlor and pipeline milker, can muk as many as 60 cows an. hour, nearly 10 times the num oer mat could be milked by, hand. . A livestock farmer in Indiana 'pushes buttons and pulls switch ics and iceds 400 steers and 500 ] ’ hogs in 10 minutes. This is a, , job that would keep five men with baskets and forks busy sor 1 a half day. Benefits City Consumers These efficiencies in farming 1 have been made possible through the magic of rural electrification.! Benefits pass on to urban con-1 •sumers in terms of a bountiful supplv of sanitary, high quality , food products that literally jam I the grocery shelves. Annual average power con sumption by farm consumers on • rural electric lines, as recent as ! 1958. stood at 3.816 kilowatts. On the basis of present-day in creases, average farm consump tion is expected to reach 5,600 kilowatts bv 1963. and 10.800 kilowatts by 1975. One thing sure, as more and moie farmers turn to pushbut ton operation of their farmsteads ! new uses and wider uses of elec tricity about the farm and rural | home lie ahead. Lets Face It. “It Just Ain’t REA” Continued from Page One systems have been organized to bring electric light and power to people who had to do without electricity up to 1935. These systems have crisscrossed the i rural areas of the Nation with nearly 1.5 million miles of elec tric lines which serve approxi ’ matelv 16 million people. While by far. most of the rural sys tems are cooperatives, in some I states they are called public power districts or public utility .districts. Rural Electric Statewide Asso ciations have been organized in many states to provide services for the individual systems—serv ices that can be done more ef ficiently or economically, or both through group action. Member ship is voluntary, but almost all Rural Electric Systems belong to a state association. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association is the national service organization of all rural electric systems. With headquarters in its own modern office building in Washington. NRECA functions on the na tional level much as the state widcs do on the state level. Im pnrtant services NRECA pro vides for its members include Insurance Coverage Manage-j ment Institutes. Consulting Serv-i ive. Group Purchasing, and Pub lic Relations Assistance to state and system publications. NRECA also has regular contact with Congress and many Federal ad ministrative agencies, and pre i sents to them the views of the I rural electric systems of Amcr iea. As with statewide associations, | membership in NRECA is vol ! untary, and more than 90 per , cent of all Rural Electric Sys tems belong to the National As sociation. Member systems, by vote at annual meeting or through their elected state di rectors. control policies, services, and actions of NRECA. The Rural Electrification Ad ministration is the real "REA” so often referred to in matters of rural electrification. It is ac tually a banking institution. A government agency. REA makes loans to local organizations for the construction of electric lines in rural areas. Loans are secur ed bv a mortgage and repaid with interest over a period of 35 veai-s. While REA loans are available to "persons” corpora tions. states, cities, and dis tricts. ‘ most of the borrowers have been rural electric coop eratives. Contrary to the general opin ion. REA does not own or con trol the systems that borrow money Nor does it hire the manager, set the rates, or dic tate policy of the local systems. i REA s and the Government's interest in the operation of rural I electrics is much the same as I that of any prudent banker. That is. to make loans and take I the necessary action to collect them. And the credit record of REA borrowers has astonished manv private bankers. Over SI billion in principal and interest has been paid to REA. on S 3", bil lion in loans. Best of all much of this has been paid prior to due date! HOW ELECTRIC POWER CHAXGBD THE FACE OF Rl RAL AMERICA Continued from Page One you just cant afford to do it by hand. A silo unloader, at the flip of a switch, tirelessly and effortlessly unloads silage at five cents a ton. Rather than being paid five cents a ton for digging and throwing down silage, today a farmer loses dollars for every hour he uses a silage fork or manure scoop. In that hour, he could be handling another 10 cows or 50 hogs. Electrically operated bulk coolers have increased the sale price of milk as much as 35 cents per hundred. One Vermont fanner found he could add 20 cows to his herd when he in stalled a pipeline milker. By pushing buttons and pulling switches, a midwest fanner feeds 400 cattle and 500 hogs in only a few minutes, a job that would require a half dozen men a half day to do bv hand. Future’s Bzight There’s no doubt but that Rural Electrification has played a big part in our changes in fanning. But we haven’t seoa anything yet if there’s anything to the prediction of the future—that farm scientific and technological developments of the next 10 years will be equivalent to the a whtf*_g6Peration Co-ops Lead From Start Os Rural Electrification Back in 1935. REA officials first tried to interest existing electric companies in building and extending electric facilities to rural areas. They weren’t in terested by and large, and little was done to provide electricity to people living beyond the city I limits . . . So—farmer-organized I cooperatives have 'taken the ball and run with it, to spread the benefits of electric light and power to people living and working in the country. In 1935, less than 11 per cent of the Na tion’s farms had electricity; to day. 96 percent now have a de pendable source of low cost elec 'tric light and power. Os the first 10 loans made by REA by November, 1935. seven were made to cooperatives, one to a private power company, and the others to state and city bor rowers. By the end of 1936, nearly 100 cooperatives in 26 states had signed loan contracts with the government 984 Borrowers Are Co-ops According to official records, of the total 1,085 borrowers who have obtained funds from REA, 984 have been cooperatives. Fif ty have been Public Power Dis tricts. 27 are listed as “Other Public Bodies." and 24 have been independent power companies. The fact that cooperatives have taken the lead in rural electrification is understandable 0 when you consider the factors involved. At best providing scattered farmers and open rural areas with electrical service al ways has been viewed by estab lished power companies as a relatively high-cost, low-profit business. Also, from the start of REA, low-cost electrical ser vice to everyone on an area basis has been one of the re quirements for obtaining a gov [OnGRRIUMTIOIU .. i ' • : on 25 years of progress in the Rural Electrification Program! We Salue the Albemarle Electric Membership Corporation For Its Part In This Program BIG'I£CUBIC-FOOTCAPACITYGENEMfELECTJIIC REFRIGERATOR-FREEZER _ ; , ._ I ; 1 12 appliances in i = \l"~Ti r-r-y—l [ I Automatic Defrosting Refrigerator. fill iir -1 BIG Roll-Out Freezer Jtetow, ' : 1 | | SLIDE-OUTSH , I | | Bring food into full view ... easy ’ p Ap||S I I reach. 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SEE US FOR YOUR Kelvinator Refrigerators Kelvinator Ranges and Washers ■'TrTTS/ Sylvania TV BYRUM FURNITURE CO. \Lt HERTFORD, N. €. burden of rural electrification. j! They have organized into non- .. profit cooperatives, and have en tered a covenant with the gov-; ernment to provide electrical; , service to all who want it, re-1 gardless of size of the consumer 1 or where he is located. As a result, REA-financed electric systems average only three consumers per mile, and some systems in thinly settled I areas average less 'than one. for the: rural electric systemKpoiht out), “This makes things much tougher for the rural entries than the city sys tems. £»ut thby’ve learned" to ! live with their problems. They are managing to make ends, meet. 'je'qaying their REA loans with interest, and often in ad- I vance. They’ll do even bolter in ' the future.”
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