Lord Lymington, who has become of late an original and
outspoken critic has made more direct and detailed claims for the factory farm than even Mr. Orwin, and he has held demonstrations. No one has dared to claim such immense reductions as his in the cost of the production of wheat by modern machinery ; he worships the deus ex machina. Never- theless he is no supporter of the old tag, "Up horn, down corn" or vice versa. He is a student of cattle breeding and sees salvation even more surely in the grading up of the quality of stock—cows that produce more milk and meat ; pigs that produce larger litters ; hens that lay more eggs— than in the reduction of cost on arable acres. He supports both Lord Astor and Mr. Blundell ; and, however modern, is an ardent quot,er of old Tusser, who though he died in 1580 was even then a believer in the mechanized farm. How he would have rejoiced to see the new harvester-thresher in Suffolk
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