Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . The Griswold home is a place of beauty with fine old irets and shrubber. The orieinal layout of thehouse. The remodelled plan. says it takes them no longer than it would to put thesheaves in the mow—and they used to have three daysthreshing every year. One more source of power they have in a little gasoline engine belong-ing to the spraying outfit. They usethis to run the milking machine. And the running cost for the entiresystem is surprisingly low. So far, thelighting-plant has cost practically no-thing for repairs. It is difficult to esti-mate the
Farmer's magazine (January-December 1920) . The Griswold home is a place of beauty with fine old irets and shrubber. The orieinal layout of thehouse. The remodelled plan. says it takes them no longer than it would to put thesheaves in the mow—and they used to have three daysthreshing every year. One more source of power they have in a little gasoline engine belong-ing to the spraying outfit. They usethis to run the milking machine. And the running cost for the entiresystem is surprisingly low. So far, thelighting-plant has cost practically no-thing for repairs. It is difficult to esti-mate the amount of fuel used for eachseparate plant, because the coal oil forthe engine, the tractor, and the oilstoves in both houses is all taken from theone barrel. Last year when the tractorwas used for some extra work on theroad as well as the regular farm work,the entire bill for coal oil was $150. A BOUT the time the electricity was?^~^ put in, the whole house was madeover. In fact the changes in the layouthad perhaps almost as much to do withthe modernizing of the house and makingit more convenient and comf
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