HARVEST RECORDS
WOMEN AND MACHINERY. At the same timo that the greatest jiarvest for .fifty years is being gathered wnrk is getting well forward ior next season (says the "Daily Mail"). Wonder, ful coin crops aro beir.jf cut everywhere, and are being gathered with a rapidity never before seen in British fields. In many counties more than half the cutting id done and the thrashing machines are busy. The speed of. the harvest is due to the wholesale employment of tractors. Fotty-fivo are at work, with binders, in Somerset alone, and one has put up a record by cutting 18 acres of corn in six hours.
The Food Production Department has supplied on hire more than 4100 tractors and has arranged for the direct sale to fanners of over 2000 more. Women are driving some of the tractors, and more are in training for the work. Other harvest implements supplied by the Fowl Production Department include -iOOO binders, 220' mowers and reapers, and 2575 carts and lorries, Side by side with the lmi'veyt. .ii great deal of land preparation is going on, helped by the Department'.-; steam-tackle organisation. Last week this tackle cultivated over 23,1)1i1i acres, ploughed more than 200(1, harrowed nearly 1)00, and mole-drained 250 acres.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 8
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207HARVEST RECORDS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 25, 24 October 1918, Page 8
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