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INAUGURATION OF AN AGRIMOTOR SCHOOL IN FRANCE.

11th November 1915
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Page 14, 11th November 1915 — INAUGURATION OF AN AGRIMOTOR SCHOOL IN FRANCE.
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The first purely agrimotor school in France was inaugurated on Sunday of last week at Herblay, about 20 miles to the northof Paris. There are several private, and State agricultural schools in France, but these are not specially concerned with the application of motors to the land. The Herblay school, on the other hand, does not attempt to give instruction in the science of agriculture, but to give farm workers mechanical knowlege and practical experience in the handling of agrimotors. The farm is conveniently placed for its purpose, being easily reached from Paris by rail, and being on one of the main highways north, over which fast touring cars passed at frequent intervals during the inauguration carrying officers to the not-far-distant Front.

The usual outbuildings of a farm have been transformed into mechanical shops fitted with a forge, drilling machine, lathes, and a suitable assortment of tools. One of the rooms is set aside for theoretical instruction, and in the sheds are to be found five tractors, all of American construction. It is recognized that the agricultural user of motors is generally far re-moved from expert mechanical assistance and therefore should be capable of carrying out all ordinary repairs. Thus the school supplements the actual driving instruction with workshop experience. In the immediate neighbourhood of the farm buildings land is available for the operation of the machines. and instruction is given by expert demonstrators.

The inauguration attracted a very satisfactory assembly of farmers and landowners and a few French officers. When the visitors had been shown the school equipment, four or five tractors wern taken into the adjoining fields and nut through various demonstrations. The machines used were : 1344 the three-wheel twin-cylinder Bull tractor, one of the most interesting and successful machines applied to French conditions; the Twin City three-wheel tractor ; the small Bijou twin V cylinder tractor ; the four-cylinder Bullock caterpillar tractor. The big Aultmann and Taylor was not brought out, for its dimensions do not make it suitable for the comparatively small plots of ground on which the demonstra tions were carried out. The four tractors mentioned are entirely suited to French conditions and are meeting with considerable success. The establishment of a school .of this nature is most opportune; the instructors should never lack pupils, for the French agriculturist is converted to agrimotors, and in the districts over which the war has passed, or is still being fought, must have them.

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