Romantic Machines If there is romance in machinery—and after all
" Romance brought up the nine-fifteen "—the story is as good as fiction. You cannot condense romance into a paragraph. Here I can mention only the bare results of these new ingenious methods, and apparatus and tools on one intensive farm of 250 acres producing wheat, fruit, potatoes and vegetables.. The output has been trebled since 1920.: In spite of this threefold increase the number of labourers has been reduced from 35 to 30, and heavy horses from 50 to 6. Yet the farm is a factory and the volume of output scarcely credible. All this modern school, in Essex as in Wiltshire—and its numbers increase steadily—make great use of the old and else almost worthless motor-car ; some of which are taken to pieces and readjusted for special functions. Invention has been very busy. The latest of the tools is a mechanical hoe that goes in and out, " singling " the plants as well
as hoeing between the rows. It is the engineer who is in the van of farming progress. * * ' • -
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