FARMING IN GERMANY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3138, 9 October 1922, Page 2

FARMING IN GERMANY.

Mr Nat. C. Murray, Crop Statistician of the United States Department, who returned lately from a European tour, has been telling of what he saw. He says the agriculture in Western Europe, and especially in Germany, is rapidly being re-established on a normal basis. The excellent condition of agriculture in Germany particularly impressed Murray, who made day trips through that country, which he particularly studied. He found that "farm lands in Germany are well tilled, and there is little or no uncultivated land. The farm houses are neat and the surroundings attractive." "The American farmer visiting Western Europe," ho says, "is impressed by the small size, but high state of cultivation of fields, the large proportion of hand labor as contrasted with machine labor on American farms, the large u>:e of women as laborers in the fields, and the use of oxen instead of horses as work animals. Two-wheeled carts instead of four-wheeled wagons are universally used and lew automobiles are. s'een iii the farming districts." Ho observed scarcely any automobiles in the country sections of Germany and not many anywhere else on farms in the European countries. Practically all of the automobiles were in cities. and those mostly public conveyances or driven by chauffeurs.