78 FARMING ON FACTORY LINES 



There are no guarantees of weather in which to save 

 the crops, and, so far as England is concerned, as 

 the writer knows from bitter experience, no present 

 guarantee that the labour necessary for the saving 

 of the crops will be available. 



If corn-growing is to be genuinely revived, then 

 we must adopt more progressive and safer means of 

 raising and harvesting the crops. We must hammer 

 out some system of growing cereals less dependent 

 on the weather, less risky, and one which does not, 

 as does the present system, demand an unbalanced 

 supply of labour. 



PRINCIPLES OF THE SYSTEM 



Before dealing with the writer's improved growing 

 system, which later, if one may judge from the 

 favourable comments made by our leading agri- 

 cultural authorities, is likely to effect a corn-growing 

 revolution, the writer wishes to point out that while 

 he is thoroughly satisfied as to the utility of the 

 system, he has by no means brought it to perfection. 



In fact, for many reasons, he would have much 

 preferred to defer writing on the subject for a few 

 years, but the desperate needs of the times compel 

 him to put before his fellow-farmers the results of 

 his experiments, in the hope of inducing others to 

 test his system on a wide scale. Further, these are 

 times when ordinary methods of caution must be 

 cast aside. 



Corn is an annual plant, and like other annuals, 

 its natural tendency is to flower and produce seed in 

 one year, and then die off. If this tendency is 

 checked, assuming certain conditions to obtain, the 



