Fortunes for Farmers 



available for the old-fashioned farmer, who was 

 accustomed to a reserve of skilled workmen ready 

 at hand in the villages. The old supply has run 

 dry, and the source has failed. Education and 

 the rise in status of labour generally has killed 

 it, and thus we shall be urged ever onward from 

 machine to machine: a glittering mechanical 

 vista. 



The greatest immediate change will be the vanish- 

 ing of the horse. He is slipping from the roads 

 now; already we motor to market or to the horse 

 fair; already around London the motor-van and 

 lorry are busily gathering the produce for each 

 market, whilst in the cities the horse is a back 

 number entirely. He has been tried (against the 

 motor) and found wanting. He is clumsy and 

 feeble; he only works a few hours at a stretch, 

 one man cannot manage more than two horse- 

 power of him, and in a word, he is uneconomical. 

 The motor-lorry of the large farmer will slay 

 him, and in those closely populated districts that 

 are springing up where the soil is rich, light 

 railways, co-operative motor services, and the 

 rural electric tram service (of America) will 

 abolish him. 



So far the road! The attack of steam on the 

 horse was mainly a failure on the land. Save for 

 threshing tackle, and very occasionally the clumsy 



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