. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. iVoy. 2, ,1908.] Agricultural G-azette of S85. Portable Motor connected with Chaff-cutter in a left on a German farm.—Illustration by Siemens Bros., Ltd. Next in iuiportanct' is llie farmhouse teleplionc. In llip United States the official weather forecast is communicated daily to every subscriber on the circuit. A few weeks ago we learned how warning of the ap| roach of a disastrous flood was conveyed to the settlers by means of the ti-lephone, and how the lieroic o,ierator lost her li
. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. iVoy. 2, ,1908.] Agricultural G-azette of S85. Portable Motor connected with Chaff-cutter in a left on a German farm.—Illustration by Siemens Bros., Ltd. Next in iuiportanct' is llie farmhouse teleplionc. In llip United States the official weather forecast is communicated daily to every subscriber on the circuit. A few weeks ago we learned how warning of the ap| roach of a disastrous flood was conveyed to the settlers by means of the ti-lephone, and how the lieroic o,ierator lost her life while remaining at her post to complete her duty of com- municating the dread intelli- gence. On a farm in New York State electricity generated from wa'er-power saws timber, cuts up fodder, and lights the homestead and premises. At a summer hotel farm, 25 miles from New York, an electric plant d t i v es wash ing machi nes, bails swampy pools, crushes stone, and does lighting and lifting for the hotel; it also works a bottle-washer, churn, cream-separator, buffer-worker, can- scrubb^ r, and ice-crusher. Electric motors for farm travel and driving machinery, such as ;, are said to be less expensive than steam-power. Two electrical com- panies in Kent and Gloucester (England) are pushing a business with the farm^-rs. In the South of , w'here water-power for generating the current is available, electrical farming is found to be profitable, and on the Continent generally they appear to be in advance of England and America in this respect. At Summern, a portable motor is attached to three machines and curs up in one hour 1,430 lb. of carrots, crushes 1,100 lb. of linseed cake, aiid lifts water to the stables. Disconnected, it goes to the fields where it drives a threshing machine and a chaff-cutter. An electric plough used suci ess- fully near Turin, travels 1,000 feet in eight minutes, turning three furrows at a time, ar a good depth. In scientific fai-min
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