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Power and Agriculture
Page 71
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THE Royal Show brings us around once more to the annual review of the position of power in agriculture. Rapid and great strides have been made in agrimotor design since its first serious introduction into the organized equipment of British farming during the later stages of the war. Its use has extended with the decline of horsebreeding as the result of the motor vehicle taking the place of animal traction on the road, and at the same time extending and intensifying the powers of transport.
The visitor to the Show will have the opportunity of inspecting almost every form of vehicle suitable for agricultural transport and agrimotors for every range of production, together with all kinds of power equipment, from the little cultivator to the plantsetter and the combined harvester-thresher and haymaking machinery.
The agrimotor has proved its utility in the hayfield, and it is only to be expected that manufacturers will strive to make it possible for almost every power job in hay and corn to be done by the agrimotor equipped with suitable appliances. It is on such jobs as these, road work and cultivating, that the pneumatic tyre becomes so useful. The wise farmer will not, however, altogether discard the steel wheel, _unless he has much road work to do, because no form of wheel suitable for all purposes appears yet to have been found.
One need scarcely add that to-day the motor lorry is an essential part of integral agriculture. Without it other power is of little use.
This special issue of The Commercial Motor will enable the agriculturist of every class to gain a comprehensive idea of the many efficient and economical motor and steam vehicles and appliances which have been designed and developed for his work. Although a visit to the " Royal " is both interesting and enjoyable, it cannot be paid by all, and to those to whom it is debarred we commend a particularly close study of the pages of this number.