Rural electrification, now being a very important topic on the prairies, is very interesting. Reports say that a high tension line has been constructed to some four large farms directly west of Humboldt by the Humboldt power department. The peculiar engineering difficulties overcome are of more than passing interest. Very little money being available for the carrying out of the project, unique methods had to be resorted to Mr. C. A. Cutting, Elec. Supt., the engineer in charge, had to avail himself of the use of salvaged material from a line abandoned some years ago. The manual labor was furnished by the farmers themselves, and the principal difficulty lay in the fact that telephone leads were constructed on both sides of the highway. This difficulty was surmounted by means of a joint pole proposition kindly sanctioned by the apartments of highways and telephones respectively.

It is hoped that the Saskatchewan Power Commission will avail themselves of one of these splendid farms served by this high tension line for experimental and demonstration purposes poses, owing to its proximity to the university and accessibility for procuring useful data. Interest being so keen in this district owning to the possibility of electrical energy on the farm, it is felt that the present would be an opportune time for such experimental work along these lines.

To fittingly mark the occasion of his initial move for improving the life of the man on the farm Mr. L. Kreller, who operates a combined dairy and farm situated on the extreme end of the new extended an invitation to the whole community to inspect his model dairy plant, also to enjoy the evening dancing in his new barn, with music ably furnished by the Humboldt Citizens Band, last Thursday evening.

Mr. Keller's plant consists of a barn 30 by 70 feet, with gambrel roof, and has accommodation for 30 head of cattle. It is both sanitary and comfortable the construction being of concrete and steel. Watering and feeding of the stock is performed by the operation of the latest electrical devices.

With the roads favorable for auto traffic a taxi service was put in operation to carry the large numbers out to the farm, in addition to many privately owned cars, and the crowd that gathered taxed the accommodation to the limit.

The grounds and buildings were brilliantly illuminated, a reflection which extended itself to the numbers who attended and marked the success of the occasion as a real stride in the modernizing of rural life on the prairies.

The other farms served by this line are those of: Aug. Lins, Mrs. M. Flory, Mike Pitzel.