History Here and There…
1951; University of Iowa; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17077/0003-4827.7225
ISSN2473-9006
Tópico(s)Race, History, and American Society
ResumoMcDonald's Farm Has ElectricityIf Old MacDonald still has a farm, and it's in Iowa, you may safely bet that on that farm he has electricity.When the power companies last counted their rural Iowa customers, they found there were more customers than farms.This, the Iowa Development Commission comments, is a far cry from the situation ten years ago, when only 41 per cent of Iowa's farms had the benefits of electricity.Five years ago, 62 per cent had electric service.Iowa's present contradiction of 201,527 electrified farm homes on 200,679 farms is really no contradiction at all.Those 848 extra homes merely prove that both the old folks and the young folks on the "home place" have electricity in their separate houses, or that both the owner's and the hired man's house have electric light and power.These figures also prove that electricity has moved onto the Iowa farm at an impressive rate in the last ten years.In 1940, Iowa had 29,455 miles of power lines in the country, taking electricity to 68,509 farm homes.Now, there are three times as many rural customers, on 2.5 times as many miles of power lines.Iowa now has 73,880 miles of rural power lines.Of Iowa's rural power users, 63.8 percent are R.E.A. customers, 34.3 percent buy their power from private companies, and 2 percent buy from municipal power plants.R.E.A. owns 70 percent of the rural power lines; private utilities, 28.2 percent, and city-owned companies, 1.5 percent.More than half the R.E.A. power (53.8%) is provided by private utility companies.
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