4 AUGUST 1950, Page 13

Congruenter Natunt

Of all criticisms, the most foolish is that which laments that "such a thing is not natural." Quite a number of farmers at first refused to use the milking machine because it was against nature. It is in fact much nearer the natural process than the hands of the milker, for the action is largely a sucking action as opposed to the mechanical manipu- lation of the fingers. In regard to harvesting, whether of grass or corn, anything which accelerates the process helps to defeat the worst enemy, the weather. The trussing devices, now growing more and more popular, save tons of hay, and soon, thanks to the harvester-thresher, we shall be absolved of the melancholy spectacle of the ears of corn sprouting into greenness on shocks or stooks.