Rural Electrification in the United States

IN recommending to the Senate approval of the bill which emerged as the Rural Electrification Act of 1936, the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry reported that experience shows that nothing can be more beneficial to the farmer and that nothing will add more to the comfort, satisfaction, and happiness of the rural population than the electrification of farm homes. 1 In subsequent Congressional debates the point was stressed that the benefits of electrification were being denied to about 90 per cent of farmers of the United States because the farmer had