OBJECTIONS. Ill 



affair; and there is some hope, as small holdings 

 extend, the system will be adopted. 



If we wanted any further evidence of the 

 difficulty attending the establishment in Great 

 Britain of co-operation for the sale of milk, 

 butter, or cheese, we should find it in the third 

 Annual Report issued in June, 1904, of the Agri- 

 cultural Organisation Society, for the year ending 

 1903, At this date there were 73 co-operative 

 societies ; but, of these, we are informed by the 

 secretary, only nine sell milk, only four of them 

 sell butter, and only two of them sell cheese. 



Use Labour- Saving Implements. 



It is said that our farmers should use labour- 

 saving implements more, and that then they 

 would produce food cheaper and solve the 

 " scarcity of labour " difficulty. 



Our experience is that farmers are more and 

 more adopting the policy, but that even then they 

 cannot make farming a successful and safe busi- 

 ness. 



It is, however, well to look baek a bit, when 

 the farmer is being severely criticised for his 

 want of progress in this particular direction. 



We shall show that there has been an increas- 

 ing trend in the direction of using new and 

 improved implements.* 



The thump of the flail could once be heard 

 in every hamlet, and almost from every 

 farmstead. There were a few horse threshing- 

 machines on the largest farms, but they were 



* 'J'he Hxiral World, 



