FARM ELEPHANTS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2837, 31 July 1916, Page 4

FARM ELEPHANTS

The unusual character of an advertisement in the London "Daily Mail" recently set many people wondering, ft was: ELEPHANT. WANTED to PURCHASE. for heavy harness work.—llopwocd, Sandygate, Sheffield.

Inquiries, showed that the advertisement' emanated from Mr. John Hopwood, a largo South Yorkshire farmer, who wishes for an elephant in order that ho may use it as a war-time substitute for horses and traction engines, Mr. Hopwood farms nearly 400 acres at langold, .near Worksop, and has also a very largo dairv farm at Sandygate. Sheffield. Heavy Jraffie passes between the two farms over twenty miles of good rond, and this has usually been hauled by horse or traction engines. Owing to (he war such methods of locomotion are not 'now available in suffi-cient-strength for Mr. Uopwood, who anticipates a bumper harvest. Having' seen an elephant and two camels iu the service of a largo Sheffield steel firm, Mr. Hopwood declares an elephant should prove an ideal animal for farm work, and if the experiments with the one he now advertises for prove successful ho will bo able to provide enough, work for another. Primarily tho elephant will bo used for heavy road haulago between the two farms, but also to draw hay load 6 during *is 6umin«>-