The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1913. SCIENTIFIC FARMING.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 70, 22 November 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1913. SCIENTIFIC FARMING.

One hears so much about the old-time

methods of the British farmer and how much ahead of English methods

jin agriculture and market gardening they are on the Continent, that it is quite refreshing to find a well-inform-ed writer in the “World’s Work” describing a W orcestershire ' farm of 4JSO acres and how things are there : managed hy the owner who personalIly supervises the work on his estate. Ho is a tanner who is interested in the scientific side of the business through studying the effects of electricity on crops, and since the- experiments then made has taken further advances in scientific fanning. He ploughs with steam, and pumps water hy power to his dry lands. He also has a motor for haulage, and employs an ; electric motor to blow dry air into damp stacks. He uses the telephone, ami his visitor was struck by the way in which the instrument saved the j farmer’s time and got business done [with some approximation to the celerity with which the urban business man gets through his work. He has been struck by the large amount of engineering work to be {lorn* on an up-lo-dato farm, and says that a. farmer’s son ought to be sent lor a year or twoj to an engineering shop. Except for what he picked up in his experiments, j with Sir Oliver Lodge, and for a little! knowledge of market-gardening, this: larmer was a novice when he started.! but, thanks to his scientific training,! he has done well, having weathered! without loss seasons that have tried j liii- powers and pockets ol the oldest | farms. Dio writer who gives an ac-l count ol this up-to-date farm, states that in the district, round about it there is plenty of splendid farming which compares well with the best in the most noted farming districts of j certain much-landed European coun-j , t ries. I , i