AN ENGINEER'S CREDO.
The best engineer's Credo that I know of is contained in a little pamphlet—now rather ancient history—containing the report of a speech delivered last autumn before the British Association by Mr. H. J. Denham, the head of the engineering research department at Oxford (Increased Pro- duction in Agriculture, Institute for Agricultural Research, Oxford, Is.). However, since that was written—so quick is mechanical progress—prospects have improved. A machine now being tested will bale the hay at the same time as it is cut and in spite of its moisture. New drying processes are making a vital difference. They have enabled the harvester- thresher to be used in Britain and new processes of which much is expected have made the drying of poultry manure—of which a good million tons a year are wasted—a new source of wealth. There is one farm in being near Oxford where no other manure is used. It may well be that the collapse in the value of land is at an end or very near it and the courageous purchasers of derelict acres be in sight of their reward.
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