Sixteen Farm Families Watch Electric Use

Just as long as there\u27s plenty of power coming over your lines, you probably aren\u27t too concerned about when peak leads are on lines in your area. Yet there\u27s good reason to know when demands are heaviest

Cutting Operating Costs for Automatic Stock Waterers

Results of tests on the amounts of electrical energy needed to keep water ice-free in automatic stock waterers furnish some tips on how to keep operating costs down whether your waterer uses electricity or some other fuel

Heating Houses Electrically

More and more Iowa homes are being heated with electricity. Electrical house heating differs from other heating systems in several respects. Here\u27s a situation report on this relatively new house-heating method

Load characteristics of southeastern Iowa farms using electric ranges

Most farms now have electric energy supplied from central stations. As the number of farms using electricity increased and as the application of the electrical energy to agricultural production expanded, it became evident that the electric load characteristics of farms were different from those of residential consumers. The farm is a business establishment as well as a residence. Electricity is used in brooding, water pumping, machinery repair, feed handling and processing, milking, refrigeration and many other productive operations. These uses of electricity often occur at the same time as similar uses on adjacent farms and at a time when electrical household equipment is in operation. Load research is a detailed examination of small numbers of consumers assumed. to be representative of a large group to determine load characteristics. Many such studies have been made by the larger utilities. The information obtained is used in system design, rate analyses, long-range planning and sales promotion programs. Since most farms are served by smaller electric distribution companies and cooperatives which have been unable to undertake this type of research, the United States Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station and several Iowa power suppliers is making a series of studies of farm load characteristics

Load characteristics of selected highly electrified Iowa farms

To gain information about the electrical load characteristics of farms, a sample of 36 farms was selected for study. Farms were chosen from those making considerable use of electrical energy outside the home and using at least 8,000 kwh of electricity per year. These farms and nine of the homes were metered continuously with recording demand meters for a period of 1 year beginning in July 1954. Records of the current used by some of the farm production appliances were obtained with recording ammeters. Data from the recording meters were analyzed to show the average load characteristics of individual farms and homes, demand patterns of appliances used in production, coincident demands of farms and estimations of future farm load characteristics

Your Pigs May Need More Water

For fast gains, pigs need more water available to them at all times- in winter as well as summer. One of the least expensive ways in both money amd labor is to supply water with electrically heated waterers

The Punk-Rock King : musical anachronism in period film

Music has a powerful indexical ability to evoke particular times and places. Such an ability has been exploited at length by the often-elaborate soundscapes of period films, which regularly utilise incidental scores and featured period songs to help root their narrative action in past times, and to immerse their audiences in the sensibilities of a different age. However, this article will begin to examine the ways in which period film soundtracks can also be used to complicate a narrative sense of time and place through the use of ‘musical anachronism’: music conspicuously ‘out of time’ with the temporality depicted on screen. Through the analysis of a sequence from the film W.E. (Madonna, 2011) and the consideration of existing critical and conceptual contexts, this article will explore how anachronistic soundtracks can function beyond ‘postmodern novelty’ or ‘nuisance’ to historical verisimilitude, instead offering alternative modes of engagement with story and history