The Farmers' Union 



Motors are now most useful adjuncts to the 

 farm; in a few years every farmer who can afford 

 one (and they will be cheap), will have one. The 

 invasion of the cheap light motors that Americans 

 are making on a gigantic scale for their farmers 

 (one firm is turning out, I believe, as many this 

 year as all the British factories put together) 

 will revolutionize our market, and already there 

 are a great number of farmers who have them. 

 They go to market, attend sales or fairs, visit out- 

 lying farms, roam afield in search of keeping or 

 other requirements, and unconsciously gain a 

 breadth of outlook that was impossible whilst 

 they stuck in a narrow rut. The motor has come 

 to stay, it will be an enormous boon to the farmer, 

 and we must abandon the bad habit of opposition. 



If the sleepy and drunken carter is disappearing, 

 if we no longer see unattended horses standing 

 by a public-house, if there are fewer drunken 

 farmers galloping home from market, we have 

 the motor to thank in a large measure. Perhaps 

 some think it hard that they can no longer send 

 out a small boy in charge of three or four horses, 

 or that one man may no more conduct several 

 carts to a station, but this is a matter of opinion. 

 So also is the question of lights on vehicles. Our 

 leaflet speaks exultantly of having excluded 

 certain farm carts from the compulsory use of 



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