AGRICULTURE 



employ " labour-saving " appliances in our 

 gardens and fruit farms, such as they have in 

 America and Canada. It is true that some of 

 these are on too large a scale for our fields 

 with their narrow gates and picturesque 



Fig. i. Howard's Allotment Plough 



hedgerows, because the American machinery 

 is built for long reaches of unbroken plains, 

 where nothing impedes the progress of the 

 machine ; but with adaptation smaller ap- 

 pliances on the same principle ought to be 

 invaluable in the present state of the 

 labour market. For instance there are some 



