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Strong Bid to Develop Power Farming
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Lo FFORTS to secure closer co-operation between farmers and engineers are being made. On Monday, the Power Fanning Development Board, of which Mr. D. N. McHardy is a prime mover, held its first meeting.
Explaining the events leading up to the formation of the Board, Mr. McHardy, who is chairman of the Tractor 'Users Association, said that representatives of engineering and other interests met the council of his Associa
tion in March. It was then unanimously decided that a board to coordinate the efforts of all concerned in the development of power farmirrg should be set up. With the assistance of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, and several other bodies, Monday's meeting was arranged.
One of the leading national problems of the day, said Mr. McHardy, is that c02
of the possibility of increasing home food production. Farm hands and equipment, are already fully occupied, and increased output would call 'for many more machines and more men.
Actually, labour is fast leaving the land, being attracted by higher wages elsewhere. To arrest this drain of men, it would be necessary to provide a much larger proportion of future workers with mechanical equipment to enable higher wages to be earned by virtue of increased output.
It was felt, he continued, that the Board should not attempt to usurp the functions of any existing organization, but should serve as a co-ordinating body. It had been suggested that each problem calling for action should be allotted to a subcommittee composed of delegates from the constituent bodies most concerned with that specific case. The findings of the subcommittee should then be placed before the full Board, which would take action.
Mr. McFIardy hoped the Board would examine the whole question of tractor demonstrations. The recent rapid increase in the number of demonstrations had forced one of the Board's constituent bodies to exercise a restraining influence for the protection of its members against unjustified expenditure incurred in attending too numerous demonstrations. He hoped to see the Board plan a programme in the best interests of the farmer and maker.
A subcommittee was elected to prepare a memorandum on policy, the members being Mr. J. B. Passmore (Society of Engineers), Col. Johnson (S.M.M. and T.), a member of the Agricultural Education Association, and Mr. Mc Hardy.