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in only one year. Keep your machines under cover when not in use. Keep them 
ready for work at any time. Use them intelligently, and you will be amply repaid by 
being able to do your work well, and to do it when it ought to be done. I trust 
that the time is not far distant when we shall take raore kindly to Australian- 
made implements and machines than we have in the past. One has only to look 
over the list of Australian farm implements and machines to be convinced that the 
inventive genius is with us here. I understand that the stripper, the complete 
harvester, the disc and stump jump ploughs, dise harrows, travelling chaffcutters, 
and other implements which have revolutionised agriculture in Australia, are 
Australian implements. I think that our farmers should not be too eager to purchase 
new imported implements on testimonials of what they have accomplished in 
other countries. Agricultural conditions differ so much that we cannot trust solely 
to experience elsewhere, ‘‘and do the sum to prove it’”’ before swallowing the whole 
of what we read and are told by interested agents. All new machines should be 
advertised in newspapers circulating in the district, if only as a guarantee of the 
bona fides of the manufacturers. If there is anything wrong abont a machine, such 
publicity would be sure to bring information regarding it from elsewhere. Also I am 
of opinion that our State farms should take more trouble in proving the worth of new 
machines and publishing the results. It is as essential to know the right sort of tools 
as it is to know the right sort of seed. I would say, in conclusion, from my experience 
of English, American, and Australasian machines and implements, that I maintain, 
that as far as Australia has gone in the agricultural manufacturing business, she is 
able to hold her own, and I trust that the time is not far distant when Australian 
machines and implements will be used on every farm in this great country. I would 
like it to go forth from all the farmers of this State that we have a patriotic desire to 
encourage the manufacture of such machinery and implements within our own and 
other States, where the manufacture of such machinery employs so many artisans. 
We should receive such reciprocal support as would nullify any attempt to prejudice 
-the primal producers of wealth from the soil as that contained in the proposal to 
remove the grain and fodder duties. 
Mr. W. N. Arxinson (Danderoo): Before I commenced farming I was a 
coachbuilder, and I know the coachbuilder’s best friend is the man who never 
paints his conveyances. Every machine on a farm needs a coat of paint every 
year, and after all it is very unsatisfactory for machine agents to see their 
machines getting ruined on a farm for the want of a little bit of paint. This 
work should occupy every farmer’s attention during the slack season; and, 
moreover, whenever a machine is stored for the season it should be put away in 
thorough order and repair. 
Mr. H. A. Tanpenr (Dallarnil): There is a great deal in this machinery 
question, and it is going to help us financially. Cane-cutting machines are being 
invented, and shortly the work in the canefields will be carried out by 
Australian white men using improved machinery. I thoroughly endorse Mr. 
Lamb’s advice that new machinery should be tested on the State farms, for the 
show-ground is not the proper place for trying them, either for the grower or 
‘the agent. In maize-growing we are still in a barbarous stage. There are two 
machines alone, the harvester—which is to maize what the reaper and binder is 
to wheat—and the shredder, that if introduced and adopted here would 
revolutionise our system of the cultivation and use of the maize plant. 
Mr. A. H. McSranz (Toowoomba): Mr. Lamb had a good word to say 
for Australian-made machines. Tam strongly in favour of local production, but 
there is one great fault in colonial-made implements and appliances, and that 
is there is too muchiron and not enough steelinthem. The result is they are too 
heavy, and the workmen waste a lot of enegy in: hauling about a lot of iron 
where half would do. Most of the colonial machinery is made of flat iron, but 
if its manufacturers would go in for the use of tubular steel or angle-iron 
instead, they would find that their machinery would be much more in favour 
with agriculturists. 
_ __ Mr. W. D. Lame (Yangan): I thank you for the appreciative manner in 
which you received my paper, and trust it will be the means of leading to some 
good, both in the use of implements on the farm, and also in their manufacture. 
1 certainly think that we can, and will, produce as good machinery here as in 
