FARMING ON FACTORY LINES 



CHAPTER I 



continuous cropping: does it pay? 



Introductory 



Some time, when I have a little leisure, I hope to 

 write a full record of my experiences in devising 

 my system of Continuous Cropping, or Farming on 

 Factory Lines. For the time being it may interest 

 the general reader to learn that my initial inspirations 

 were received from two people, viz., Prince Kropotkin, 

 through reading his famous book, " Fields, Factories, 

 and Workshops," and my father, who was himself 

 a farmer and the descendant of a long line of farmers, 

 and an agricultural economist — without knowing it. 

 My father once said to me, the while indicating 

 with a wave of the hand, the numerous factory 

 chimneys and colliery head gears, which in his time 

 had sprung up round our home farm: — " Laddie, 

 those are the things which you are up against. I 

 have made money farming, but unless you improve 

 on my methods, unless you can successfully compete 

 with the factory and collieries, you won't." 



what they did not realise 



His statement set me thinking, and we had many 

 discussions on the matter. Had I followed my 

 father's general advice I should have adopted some 

 profession other than agriculture, but although at the 



