A farmer as ingenious as his namesake who shared with
Stephenson the glory of the first steam engines, invented a new way of piling corn, half way between the stook and the stack. The bases on which these weather-proof mounds of sheaves were piled were tripods once used by the War-time producers of flax. Mr. Watt, on Essex flats, like Mr. Hosier on the tilted Downs of Wiltshire, affixed any sort of contraption to any sort of motor-car. The chief difference of the corn- carrier of one and the hay sweep of the other is that Mr. Watt affixed his wooden floor at the back of a Morris (was it ?), and Mr. Hosier braces his wooden spikes to the front of an antique Buick. Under that leadership how many an old motor-car has now taken to a cross-country career and deserted the road for the field I * * * *
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