A "MAD" FARMER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 50, 28 February 1940, Page 5

A "MAD" FARMER.

NOW BENEFACTOR.

DERELICT LAND RECLAIMED.

(SpedaL — By Air Man.)

LONDON, January 20.

Dabbed mad two years' ago because he took over hundreds of acre* of derelict land at Stoke-By-Clare, Sudbttrr Suffolk, Mr. W. E. Borrill, a wcU-kaowm Yorkshire farmer is now being hailed a* a public benefactor.

Already he has brought 700 ooee- *£?* ,ood production at • :#HS W^ n Br,uin need* e«rr acre of food-producing land it can obtain. Like most pioneer* he ha* suffered by hu enterprise, for had he waited a sftin to WOuW ***• ««*««* £1400 a* a contribution from the Gotcas* the £2 »-— **"*" Mr. Burrill eee . powerful tractor*. * combine harvester that threshes tbm corn as it is cut, a plant for drying the Snfo artificially, and a few •'Somemade implement*, such as a converted lorry with spudded wheels that is equally at home on a tarmac road or me, ploughed field, and an old motor car whose powerful headlights are useful at ajgfat after seedWelb have been bored to water th* the *"** teM*, mole-draiaiwi mwertaken, farm roads Uid out, eo£ t »*es and farm buildings rebuilt. IJJ*t year the reclaimed land aver■S*,l •even sacks of wheat to the urn and 10 to 14 sacks of barley.