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This video is from 1940, giving a comparison of farming the hard way, without electricity, and the benefits/process of forming a rural power cooperative. There are quite a few videos with this theme from that era. (Belmont Electric Cooperative has since merged into South Central Power Coop here in Ohio.)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-KVwWAJBJUA
Every one of those guys is skinny. I suspect carrying stock water from the well pump and cutting stovewood every day contributed to that…
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