It may almost be said that there is room only
for the best and worst farming. Imaginative farmers who can experiment and spend on a considerable scale can make farming pay and the family farmer who scratches on as best he may without paying for labour can make farming pay. A great deal of pioneer work is being done, much more than is generally understood. Mr. Hosier, that most practical inventor from Wiltshire, is adding " poultry units " to his cow-milking units, on a system that half the farmers of England might imitate. In the area round Oxford an intensive survey is being made of the power requirements of the farm and, as also at Rothamsted, researchers are at work, making inquest into a number of the newer uses of electricity in farming. One may hope that the supply companies will make response.
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