REMARKABLE 3000-ACRE FARM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 63, 11 October 1916, Page 7

REMARKABLE 3000-ACRE FARM.

A very remarkable farming enterprise is attracting much attention on the part of the agricultural community of South Lincolnshire. Mr George Caudwell, Lambeth Hall, Weston, Spalding, lias under cultivation no fewer than 315 acres of onions. Every field of his 3,000 acres (they range in dimension from 110 acres down to not less than 35) is connected with the ten or twelve miles of light railway which threads the tract, and by means of which one horse can draw 20 tons of potatoes on a winter’s day with greater ease than three Shire horses could pull one ton in the old days. By means of this railway the produce is taken to a special-ly-constructed dock, where it can lie rapidly tipped on to six-ton motor lorries, which whip it off to the railway some live or six miles away; or else the produce is taken to a wharf on the River Welland, which borders part of the farm, where it is shot into one of the fleet of 100-ton steel barges which float down on the tide to Snrfleet Station. Mr Caudwell has no fewer than 20 miles of telephone wires on his farm, which keeps him in contact with every part and with the outside world. According to the “Yorkshire Post,” his beans, potatoes, mustard, barley, and carrots (of which 60 acres form one enclosure) are heavy, and in uniformly magnificent condition. ,