THE MARCH TRACTOR TRIALS.
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THE tractor trials of 1922— f which part of the event openskt Stoke Canon, near Exeter, on March 1st, for
two days—promise to be an interesting affair. As already noted in these columns, the Society of Motor Manufac turers and Traders has decided not to organize trials on a large scale this year, but to conduct three smaller events more intensively, in different parts of the country.
There is much to be said for this arrangement. In the first place, the agrimotor has become a more familiar object on the farm, and a larger number of people know in a general way what • i it, s, and are tot prepared to travel long distances in order to struggle over fields *etching a score or two of machines at work.
• The trials are open for entries of tractors and implements, and the number of these must be highly satisfactory to tho promoters. Considering that the Exeter event will be more in the nature of local trials, an entry of 15 agrimotors and 57 other implements must be considered good.
The following tractors have been entered :-2 Austin' 1 Hart Parr, 2 Cletrac, 2, Case. 1 Twin City, 2 Fordson, 1. Ft, 2 International Junior, 1 Simar self propellethrotary soil tiller (No. 25), 1 ditto (No. 7), 1 ditto (No. 4), 1 New
B4 Britain garden tractor with riding cultivator, and 2 British Wallis.
The undermentioned firms have made entries of various implements :-13awden's Plough Works, Ltd., H.' G. Burford and Co., Ltd., J. I. CREn Threshing Machine Co., A. Dugdale, Ltd., Martin's Cultivator Co., Ltd., Fiat Motors, International Harvester Co. (G.B.), Ltd., W. R. Medland and Son, P. J. Parmiter and Sons, Ltd., Phipps and Sons, Ransome, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., Ruston and Hornsby, Ltd., E. V. Twose, and R. J. and H. Wilder.
The testing of all these implements and agrimotors during two,. days should provide plenty of opportunity for visitors to learn and also exercise their powers of criticism. It will be found in trials such as these that there will be a good attendance of local people interested in farming and tractors.I mean by local people those living in Devon, Cornwall and the south-west counties generally. There will be those from a distance who are interested in tractors from the wider standpoint, and the event altogether will be more intensive than has been the case at previous S.M.M. and T. trials.
Many will endeavour to attend, and it has to he remembered that an event of a local flavour' always attracts. At any rate it is to he hoped that the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders will receive the amount of support which it deserves for its efforts in carrying out trials every year for the benefit of those in whose interest the tractor industry exists.
Business, as everyone knows, has been bad during the past year, but, most business is bad to-day, and with a revival in trade in general that is bound to come, and _in farming in particular, the inquiries for the agrimotor will increase, as the appliance has established itself permanently in the method and practice of British agriculture, although difficulties over which farmers themselves have no control prevent. their buying the number of machines they would otherwise like.
It may be well to point out to the agricultural readers of this journal that the price of every make of agrimotor has been reduced enormously. This should provide an inducement for the enterprising, go-ahead farmer to maintain the equipment of his business organization on a .proper and adequate footing. Two other sets of trials, one iii the south-east during_ the summer, and another in the north during the autumn, are to beheld by the Society for the benefit of farmers and agriculturists generally in those parts of the country, while the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland is hoping to arrange for an event to take place in Scotland during October.