CO THE EQUIPMENT OF THE FARM. 



the farm is apt to be increased nowadays beyond reason ; 

 though it is excused by the constantly growing cost of 

 manual labour. The economy of organizing and superin- 

 tending that efficiently thus tells in two ways. Fewer 

 hands are required ; and some of the expense of labour- 

 saving machinery may be dispensed with. Bemembering 

 how short a time ago it seems since the plough, the 

 harrow, the grubber, the roller, and the cart or waggon 

 were almost all the tools employed upon the land, with 

 flail and sieve and fanner for the barn, the young 

 farmer would, it appears to us, do well to be driven with 

 difficulty in the direction of the elaborate machinery which 

 is now to be seen on almost every farm. No doubt, 

 however, harvest machinery of all kinds is an immense 

 advantage, and, indeed, a necessity now that labourers are 

 fewer, especially at that time, than they used to be. 



In an appendix there is given a price-list of all the 

 agricultural machines that can be required, compiled 

 from recent catalogues of the Great Annual Agricultural 

 Exhibitions. 



