English Farming

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 66, 19 March 1936, Page 12

English Farming

“MIXED MECHANISATION. ’ ’ LONDON.’ Sir John Bussell, the agricultural expert, states that the ordinary English system of farming needs about 25 to 30 permanent agricultural workers i.oi each squaro mile. One a Highly mechanised Saskatchewan wheat farm there is one worker per square mile of cultivated land. The English system " is more efficient per acre, while the Canadian system is more efficient per man. Mechanised farming has appeared on the Downs and in the Eastern Countries in England. Fewer farm workers are employed in parts of those districts, and old cottages are falling into ruin. Market-gardening crops may be successfully cultivated by mixed mechanisation, and some of the farmers using this system make ingenious use of waste industrial products. Old motor cars arc bought cheap and employed for a variety of purposes. The efficiency of farm carts is increased by 50 per cent by putting rubber-tyred wheels on them. The reduction of friction allows tho horses to pull heavier loads more quickly. One farmer has made cheap silo towers out of dismantled steamer funnels. A "Wiltshire" farmer has succeeded in producing milk economically on poor land by keeping tho cows out all the time and milking them in movable cowsheds. The shed is brought to the cow, instead of the cow to the shed.