Pacific service magazine . ect is due pri-marily to two contributing factors: first,cheap and available hydro-electric power;second, an elaborate interconnected systemof transmission lines, traversing every sec-tion of the great interior valleys which arethe chief agricultural regions of the state. These facts were brought out at a con-ference held in San Francisco last May forthe purpose of considering, from everyavailable angle, the problem of the relationof electricity to agriculture. The confer-ence itself was an outcome of a movementstarted in the previous year, when repre-sentatives of t
Pacific service magazine . ect is due pri-marily to two contributing factors: first,cheap and available hydro-electric power;second, an elaborate interconnected systemof transmission lines, traversing every sec-tion of the great interior valleys which arethe chief agricultural regions of the state. These facts were brought out at a con-ference held in San Francisco last May forthe purpose of considering, from everyavailable angle, the problem of the relationof electricity to agriculture. The confer-ence itself was an outcome of a movementstarted in the previous year, when repre-sentatives of the National Electric LightAssociation met with members of theAmerican Farm Bureau Federation to de-termine ways and means of answering thequestions, What can electricity do foragriculture? How can service be suppliedto the farmer and what is involved in itsestablishment ? How can service be utilizedby the farmer so that it will be profitablefor him? The result of their deliberationswas the formation of a national committee. Reservoir and canal, part of an extensive irin the San Joaquin Valley. on the relation of electricity to agriculture,with Dr. E. A. White, an eminent agri-cultural engineer, as director. The personnel of this committee wasmade up of representatives from the Amer-ican Farm Bureau Federation, the NationalElectric Light Association, the Power FarmAssociation, the American Society of Agri-cultural Engineers and the United StatesDepartments of Agriculture, Commerceand Interior. Its chief task was to deter-mine the maximum economic uses of elec-tricity in agriculture. The work was or-ganized on a state basis, being distributedamong state committees similar in organi-zation to the national committee. Californias participation in the move-ment had its inception in May, 1924, atthe meeting in San Francisco previouslyreferred to. This meeting was attended byleaders of the California Farm BureauFederation, executives of most of the Cali-fornia central stations, members
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