Let Tractors Haul Farmers' Requisites
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I N issuing an urgent appeal to farmers to place their orders for sulphate of ammonia to be used this spring, without further delay, the Minister of Agriculture has stressed the difficulties of transport as one reason for the need for early ordering. The quantities involved on the basis of the manurial applications advised run into some millions of cwt, and the problem of transport is certainly no small one in present circumstances. It is urged that orders should be placed with the nearest convenient supplier to cut out unnecessary haulage, and that farmers should use their own vehicles, motor or horse-drawn, to avoid congestion at railway stations, merchants' premises and other places from which collection has to be made.
It is interesting, at this juncture. to reflect that the Tractor Users Association had to put in some strenuous work to secure a concession for tractors to work loads to and from the nearest railhead. At the moment there are thousands of farm tractors in the country, many of them with suitable trailers, which could hanllle most of this traffic from the railway yards and from local towns if their owners were assured that they were free to do so without falling foul of the law. It would be an ideal job for them, in the weeks which remain before the rush work of spring begins.