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Land-draining Demonstrations by Agrimotor.
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Agrimotor draining demonstrations are being held in different parts of the country under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture. The first was held at Wye Agricultural College, Kent, at the end of January, and the second at Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, eight miles from Banbury, on February 3rd.
There was a large gathering of farmers and landowners at the Warwickshire event, which was a better or more effective demonstration than that in Kent, because the land was so much more in need of draining. The land at Fenny Compton being very wet, farmers were in a good position to judge the value of the mole-draining plough used in conjunction with the agriraotors. Six outfits were at work, five being operated by agrimotore and one by a portable oil engine. The agrimotors included the Case, Internationals Fordson, Caterpillar and Rushton, and among the mole ploughs were the Darby Little Wonder, Harper, Steadman and Wells and the Simplex (E. V. T-wome) portable cable set. The outfit attached to the Rushton and that attached to the Fordson (Dugdale) were operated on the cable principle, but all the others were operated by direct haulage.
In the absence of any national scheme of full draining, that secured by the use of the mole plough, made possible by the introduction of the agrimotor, is the only means for draining left to the farmer and landowner.
The Ministry of Agriculture was represented at the demonstration by Mr. J. Thompson Clem, and members of the Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Oxford University, were in attendance.