MACHINERY ON THE FARM.
Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette , 31 October 1928, Page 5
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MACHINERY ON THE FARM.
In a lecture on "Th« Present Position and Future Prosp«ctiof M«chanisation in Agriculture," "delivered by Professor E)r. Heuser, of Danzig, the author rimarked that increasing mechanisation on the farm was bound to tak« place. Locomobiles and motor ploughs were to-day rendering possible the cultivation of waste lands, and the movement was being intensified by the intense demand for labour which occurred during the summer; The capital already invested in agricuultural machinery and equipment was considerable, and the future organisation «{ the work would be largely conditioned by the technical apparatus. The distribution of ma chinery in agriculture was"' naturally uneven. For instance, ■ grass land required little machinery, and arable laud a great deal. T^e] employment of machinery reduced'hard physical labour, and owing to las shortage of labour, its use was greatly increasing in Germany. The cost m agricultural machinery depended oil the price, the Hie, the wear and the* operating costs. On small ploughs the deterioration was very great, but the wear was small, owing to the short tirae^ they were in use. Economic considerations, there fore, marked the limit of' mechanisd tion. Progress depended on-the better design and standardisation of both parts and types'." A^O per cent, of the German agricultural land was in the hands of peasants/ the/c was a large possible market for drilling, chaff cutting and manure distributing machines. -'""■""
