CALL TO DOUBLE-MAN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY
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I N a letter published in The Times last Wednesday, Mr. D. R. Bomford, Chairman, Tractor Users' Association, refers to the urgent need for the immediate mobilization of thousands of youths of 16 and 17, to enable all available agricultural machinery to work during the full daylight hours of the critical months of August, September and October. During this period there is an average of nearly 100 hours of daylight per week, and to ensure continuous working two drivers are required for every tractor. Experience has proved that a lad at 16 is better training material than at any other age. Early in June the Association submitted to the Government a plan to organise and train youths while still
at school, but this died a natural death somewhere In the Civil Service machinery.
It is now too late for organized training, but not for a national appeal to secure the best untrained material for the counties.