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Survey Of Electrical
Equipment Underway
“H'>w can 1 know what piece of elect: ica! equipment will do the joh for me?"
Agricultural enginee's at VI’I, aim .to find the answer to this question—asked "by farmers ever since electricity has been a source of power on the farm.
R. L. Chambliss, Jr., Expel iment Station, will head tiehl studies ot electi ical equipment installeil on farms of various sizes and types throughout Virginia. These studies will assemltle data on the use of farm and home electrical equipment, under actual farm conditions, as compared with the method formerly used. Data will include operating costs, labor requirements, savings, and profits.,., as well as other factors with a direct bearing on the use of the equipment being studied. The survey is being done by the Virginia Experiment Station and the Virginia Farm Electrification Council.
Check meters and recording instruments will be connected to the equipment. Farm families will help record daily information on brooders, ranges, freezers, corn and hay driers, and many other pieces of electrical equipment.
At present 300 farmers and vocational agriculture students are being asked to assist in a poultry brooder study. Engineers and voag teachers are visiting the farms to help the farmers and students set up brooders and install refolding meter s. Comparative studies on oil, coal, gas, and wood —brooders al-o are—meludcd.—Ret-— olds of both winter and spring
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