PLOUGHING UP BRITAIN
British farmers have now got 70,000 tractors ready to plough 1,500,000 acres of grass land for crops to maintain Britain’s food supplies. In 1914 not one British farmer in a hundred had even seen a tractor. Today 'British tractors show a vast improvement in design over the few thousand which were put on the land in 1917. As they are much lighter they can everywhere replace the horse: and with pneumatic tyres in place of the old steel wheels, not only are their upkeep and fuel consumption both lower, but, manned by the growing army of land girls, they can now be used for haulage work. In many districts of Great Britain the methods of application of machinery are to-day second to none in the world, and this wider experience, coupled with the huge contingent of tractors now available, assures the fighting forces of more than adequate support on the home front.
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Evening Star, Issue 23421, 11 November 1939, Page 3
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155PLOUGHING UP BRITAIN Evening Star, Issue 23421, 11 November 1939, Page 3
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