1922.] 



Farm Labour Organization. 



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extended use of horses at this time of the year, and not only 

 so, but they should also be the means of displacing a certain 

 amount of manual labour and making it available for other work ; 

 especially is this desirable where a large amount of casual labour 

 has to be employed at this season of the year. 



Where a few mares are kept for breeding purposes a means 

 of reducing the cost of the horse-labour is provided, as the birth 

 of the foals and the subsequent period when they have to run 

 with their mothers coincides with these slack months; the cost 

 of the keep of the mares then becomes a charge on the foals and 

 not on the other enterprises of the farm. Whether this is a 

 profitable way of dealing with the problem is another question 

 and depends largely on the demand for work horses. 



The ideal of horse labour management is the tame as for 

 manual labour, viz., uniform employment throughout the year 

 on productive w r ork. It will be apparent from the graph that 

 this is difficult to attain, but efficient organization, as far as the 

 weather and other conditions affecting the use of horses will 

 allow, through a well thought out programme of work will make 

 an enormous difference in the proportion of idle days. 



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USE OF ELECTRICITY 

 AT GREATER FELCOURT FARM. 



R. Borlase Matthews, A. M.Inst. C.E., M.I.E.E. 



In order to show the possibilities of the use of electricity in 

 farm buildings the writer proposes to explain the extent to which 

 he " takes his own medicine." on his farm of 600 acres at East 

 Grinstead. This method will probably be more interesting at 

 the moment, since the author has read two papers* which sum- 

 mi! rise very fully the work lie has been carrying out during 

 recent years. 



* Electro-Farming, or the Applications of Electricity to Agriculture,' 

 read on 30th March. 1922, hefore the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 

 Savoy Place, Victoria Embankment. S.W.I ; also. "The Uses of Electric 

 Power in Agriculture," on 3rd April, 1922, read before The Farmera' <"iub, 

 2, Whitehall Court, S.W.I ; also, " Electro-Farming." published hythe Electrical 

 Development Association, Savoy Street, Strand, W.C.2, price Is. 



