50 AGRICULTURE 



Motor would be a hundred times worth while. Motor 



Transport 



power will no doubt also play a very important 

 part in the future of agriculture, whether as 

 machines on the land or in the transit of produce. 

 Packing Lastly, there is the most Important question 

 of packing and grading. Statesmen, officials 

 and others all agree, and constantly vociferate, 

 that our people must learn to put their goods 

 on the market, as well packed as by the 

 foreigner, but anything like organised instruc- 

 tion in this dainty branch of work seems 

 conspicuous by its absence. Surely the 

 County Councils might give attention to 

 this important matter, and organise practical 

 not theoretical classes. Here surely women 

 ought to make a great success with their 

 deft ringers and light manipulation. In fact, 

 they could very well become the instructors, 

 although the County Councils would possibly 

 have to import a Dane to teach them. 

 Careful The embryo fruit farmer must, before all 

 ground 10 for a f things, make a very careful selection of her 

 n ground before planting an orchard. Broadly 



