THE FARM OF THE FUTURE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 129, 18 February 1918, Page 8

THE FARM OF THE FUTURE

There is a farm down on the eastern .shore of Maryland (says the New York "Evening Post"), on one of the innumerable inlets of Chesapeake Bay, that constitutes what amounts to a practical prophecy of what the farm of the future is going to be. The water supply of this extensive place is pumped from a notably fino spring by a stationary gasolene motor. The electriclighting plant is powered by a gasolene engine. A gasolene tractor plants and harvests a large part of the crops. What used 1 to be known the odd jobs in which a farm is so prodigal, milking, cream separating, corn shelling, ensilage cuttjng; etc., are all performed- by means of'power derived from a gasolene engine. 'And finally this' farm has its own commercial transportation system, consisting of two motor trucks, which carry all tho produce raised to the railway or to the markets of the near-by cities and bring back the considerable supplies needed to maintain an extensive establishment of this kind.

About the only form of motor power that is not employed on this model farm is an aeroplane, and even this may come jn_ time. This is prophetic of what is going to happen all over the country as soon as rural residents realise that by installing motor power they may hecomo practically independent of outsido aid. The farmer is going to haye all the labour-savins; conveniences of tho co-operative life of the cities without tho disadvantages inevitable in tho latter. With rural life thus made-attractive, the call of the land is going to be irresistible.