"TIN HARES"

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3207, 3 April 1928, Page 4

"TIN HARES"

OTHERWISE THE FARMERS'

THRESHERS

"It's only a flash in the pan; they'll go out as quickly as they came in," declared a gentleman from Christehurch interested in the building of threshing mills, when, in replying to a toast at the "Winfield" re-union on Saturday night, he made reference to what is frequently termed the "tin -hare," otherwise the farmer's threshing plant. "A man goes to the farmer, talks all sorts of stuff to him about saving money and so on, and the farmer will then buy anything," he went on. "A good British mill will do three times the work-that one of these toy things can do. It's a crying shame that all this money should be going to America instead of being kept in our own country or sent to the Old Country."

A certain threshing mill skipper here interjected that the man who had been saying hard things about American threshers usually drove about in an

American car

"Yes, I do," proceeded the speaker, "but I couldn't get a British car at the time I bought. I would not buy an American car again."

" Farmers sho\ild be ashamed of themselves for using these American-made things, sending their money abroad and then having to pay out to relieve unemployment in this country," the speaker went on. '' They would be doing far better by buying a good full-size British made mill if they must have one. It is costing the farmer 5d a bushel to put his stuff through these small mills; then he has to keep the men. By the time he reckons everything up his threshing is costing him more like 9d a bushel. Instead of .putting ' their money into threshers the farmers should leave that job to men who specialise in the work, and concentrate On the scientific farming of their properties so as to get better yields."