BRITAIN'S TRACTORS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 180, 1 July 1940, Page 6

BRITAIN'S TRACTORS

FOR THIS WAR'S FOOD campaign The mechanised, columns of Britain's , agricultural army have already achieved a big victory against imforseen odds. When agriculture was set the task of ploughing up 2.000000 extra acres ol' grassland by the end of April, no one knew that the 'winter was going to be the coldest for 45 years* and that so many days Would be lost owing to snow, ice and frost that it would be the worst ploughing season within living memory. Yet just before the end of April Britain's ploughmen and ploughgirls had completed 1,900,000 of tin extra acres. Industry played its part in the achievement. Since last June motor farm tractors at -work on the land have increased by 13,000 and there are now 70 times as many of their as were at work in the food growing campaign of 1914. The Government also holds huge reserves <V agricu 11ural machinery. Electricity is now also in the forefront of giving service to the farms. The ingenuity of the industry's scientists and engineers ha: resulted in the electrification ol more than 200 types of farm equipment:- . Farming lias maintained its livestock at the same time as ineree.s ing its arable krnds. j A 7-' iivi'sHhcU'' r 'f;iken bv the wlimStry'b'f krnituifc 1 iH 'ispeffed' all 'ftltrs'rtf h Vilfe''' nuitlßli, abUhii''v ! 1 c(?. £tjh dj i c:; m ui n-fa?rl • sofo *11 'Hi|>i s if«s&v ? ' only a little less.