Country Life
AN ALL-ELEcrarc FARM.
A surprising advance (coincident with Faraday's cen- tenary) has been made quite recently in the art of applying electricity to the farm ; and though we lag behind the Con- tinent—especially Scandinavians in this regard—the best demonstration in the world is to be seen on three Surrey farms at East Grinstead. Mr. Borlase Matthews, under whose guidance the three farmers work, has travelled wherever electrical farming was to be found ; and on to foreign experi- ences he has grafted much English ingenuity. Power, heat, light or fanned air are used in every conceivable farming operation ; ploughing, hay-curing (which incidentally is rather different from hay-drying), poultry rearing, cow- milking, bee-keeping, horse-clipping and brushing and curry- combing, chaffing, blacksmith's work, wood cutting, water- pumping and much more besides. It is alleged that it has three hundred separate uses in husbandry and that over sixty of these are in operation at East Grinstead.
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