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ELECTRICITY FOR THE FARM


THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

NEW YORK. BOSTON. CHICAGO. DALLAS
ATLANTA. SAN FRANCISCO

MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON. BOMBAY. CALCUTTA. MELBOURNE

THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO




[Illustration: Even the tiny trout brook becomes a thing of utility
as well as of joy

(_Courtesy of the Fitz Water Wheel Company, Hanover, Pa._)]




ELECTRICITY FOR
THE FARM


LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER BY INEXPENSIVE
METHODS FROM THE WATER
WHEEL OR FARM ENGINE


BY
FREDERICK IRVING ANDERSON

AUTHOR OF "THE FARMER OF TO-MORROW," ETC., ETC.


  New York
  THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
  1915

_All rights reserved_




  Copyright, 1915
  By THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
  The Country Gentleman


  Copyright, 1915
  By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
  Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1915.




PREFACE


This book is designed primarily to give the farmer a practical working
knowledge of electricity for use as light, heat, and power on the
farm. The electric generator, the dynamo, is explained in detail; and
there are chapters on electric transmission and house-wiring, by which
the farm mechanic is enabled to install his own plant