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Motor Power in Agriculture

28th June 1935, Page 67
28th June 1935
Page 67
Page 67, 28th June 1935 — Motor Power in Agriculture
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F. OR many years we have referred to the motor as the pivot of agricultural progress. To-day the fact is obvious and goes without saying. It applies equally to all modern industry.

The agrimotor has played an enormous part in agricultural development during recent years. It has incalculably increased the output of the land, but the motor lorry is the means that has succeeded in getting the produce to the people, thus helping the grower to greater efficiency.

As a writer in our contemporary, the Farmers' Weekly, pointed out a few weeks ago, it is doubtful whether power farming, properly so-called, has effected so radical a change in the economy of agriculture as the introduction of mechanical road transport. A motor vehicle is an indispensable item of farm equipment, and modern methods of goods transport have brought about important improvements in the business of farming, such as the marketing of every kind of produce, including livestock. With road transport delay is avoided and there need be no interference with the work of the farm. The motor lorry can be used on the land, not only for the haulage of manures, roots, and even hay and corn, but also for some cultivation operations. Lorry bodies are available especially designed for particular purposes, and there is wide use of the trailer for light transport requirements.

The motor lorry_ and the agrimotor, together with the motorcar, combine to form the pivot of agricultural progress and development. Great advance has been made since the war in the application of motor.power. Agricultural engineers have not been slow to bring all their ability and skill into mechanizing the industry, and they have succeeded with truly amazing results. They were fortunate, however, in having the foundations laid for them previously by the pioneers of the internalcombustion engine. This it is which has made possible most of the mechanical agricultural progress of recent years.

Each year, as the Royal and other large agricultural shows come round, the opportunity is provided for the farmer, operating on large or small scale, to see and note the things that are new. There is alwaYs something novel being introduced for agriculture. Indeed, the inventions, for the most part, are remarkable. As regards the lorry and the agrimotor, . however, it is not so much something new that the farmer is after, as something that fits his purpose, and it is the opportunity the Royal provides for hitii to find this that makes the Show so useful as well as fascinating.

Transport media, from the trailer and small van to the heavy lorry, from the small garden tractor to the heavy powerful machine to suit almost every purpose and every type of business and holding, will be found at the Royal.

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