Country Life
MACIDNE-MADE CAREMRS.
Mr. Orwin, the chief of our agricultural economists, who continues to consider the machine itself as a surer solution than the dews ex machine, has found a new point of value . for the farm of the future. He suggests that it opens a promising career for the young man with a little capital. One of the Oxford pamphlets happens simultaneously to give astonishing examples from America of the speed with which the multiple machines work : they may deal with five acres and more in the hour. The drawback is the initial expense ; and if this should be the only drawback—as in quite suitable conditions it is—there may be a good and certainly a most nseful career opened for the young man who has some , engineering skill. He may become a reclaimer of prairie. „ The price of land is so absurdly low that even conservative stockbrokers begin to recommend its purchase.
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