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MR. FORD AS A FARMER IN ESSEX.

FIELD AND FACTORY.

SUCCESSFUL RESULTS OF MECHANICAL FARMING.

Mr. Henry Ford has now taken to farming in Essex. Over two hun- dred acres of land close to the huge factory which his company is put- ting up at Dagenham are under wheat cultivation by modern power farming, methods ", the ploughing and reaping is done, by Fordson tractors. The experts who were invited to see this experiment were nstonished to are harvesting Kuing QIL in these improbable surroundiaga. The gigantic steal framework of the half-built factory is in the next field, as it were. On the horizon is the famous Horn church refuse dump, a grunt dirty

nere, and the total revenue was £1,314, or £18 pet nere. This is nearly double the average profit from wheat farming in this country. It is for agricultural experts to prononner on this result and to say

far it could be achieved else where by tho,aname means."

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Mechanical Farming Pays. The case put forward by the Ford Company is that the experiment demonstrates that farming can he successfully carried on, if the land is suitable, entirely by mechanical means. The only animal on the Ford farm is a cat. No manure was used for the crops described above, for the land was fallow and with a much larger area under rich, but now, in the second year,

cultivation, a small quantity of

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by the great progress that has been made already in building the biggest motor-car factory in Europe. Where. a year ago was n singularly desolate expanse of weedy waste there in now an enormous skeleton work. shop, half-clad with bricks, glass, and sheet steel, and the soil over large areas has been hidden by deop substructures of concrete to bear. the weight of machinery. The tae tors, they say, would go into a

corner of Detroit, and hardly be seen¬no doubt an exaggeration,— but it is a staggering size for Eng- land, with a blastfurnace (the frit in the South of England), power- house, and other buildings in pro- portion..

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trialism in its starkest form.

Marabland Becomes a Farm, On the principle of making use of everything, the Ford people have turned the heavy marshland an their site into a mechanical or rationalised farm, employing a Scottish farmer to make it pay

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the land. There are no horacs, and many thousands of huge concrete very few man. At present about piles, some of them eighty feet long, 0 acress are under wheat and and one could see the mechanical hay,

pile-driver nt work to-day hammer. At the busy time of the year toning in these monstrous pillars, non aro employed; in the winter, one or two only. The work is done by thres tractors, and with the es eeption of a skilled, foreman the workers have no farming experi- ones. The interesting paint is the

contention that, even with the low

possible on

a farm worked by machinery to gat á good return. The motor-tractor can plough in weather when the borse cannot, and do much more work in the time.

foot for every stroke. There is something impressive even to those familiar with the feats of modern engineering in the scale of all this creative work, which is fast turning wilderness inta complete

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plant, fed by its own railways, bour on the river.

This, according to the figures sup prices of grain now ruling, it is ronda, and a new commercial har plied to the visitors, has been done at Lake Farm The results' pub lished relate to two plots of four and 73 acres, respectively. The yield of wheat from the first inst year worked out at 332 ewt to the nere, and the total revenue from the piece was a little over £00, or over $13 per nore. The yield from the 73 acres was nearly 38 cab, per

The Biggest Car Factory. Thane of the party who say young Mr. Ford dig x silver spade into a patch of marshy field by the Thames in May, 1990, were struck

It is expected that manufacturing will begin seme time next year, and the Ford.. Company announce that when the place is fully working it will employ over fifteen thousand mien, and produce. 200,000 cars each year for the home and Continental market. One supposes that, some how room will be found on the roada for this new outpouring or cars,

Diary of Coming Events,

Today.

(October 21.)

European Mail:-Outward: 1" World Theatre: "Madonna of Europe vid Siberia (Hiye Maru), 6 Avenue A."

Queen's Theatre: "Free and p.m.

Easy"

Star Theatro: "Lady of the Harera."

Central Theatre: "A Dangerous Woman,"

World Theatre: "Singing Fool." Hong Kong, Macao and Canton Steamboat Co., Extraordinary Gen- eral Meeting, 11 a.m..

Lecture by Father Finn at Helena May Institute: "Itenaissance Art," 3.30

p.m.

Nelson Day Concert Theatre, 9p.m

Wednesday. (October 22.) Queen's Theatre: "It's A Great Life."

World Theatre: "Madonas of Avenue A."

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Star Theatre: Noah's Ark." Central Theatre: "Tanned Legs. Majestic Theatre: "The Grand Parade."

Star Theatre: "Nonh's Ark.” Central Theatre: "Tanned Legs.". Majestic Theatre: "Lilae Time." Orchestral Concert, Helena Way Institute, 5.30 p.m.

Triday, (October 24.)

Quoon's Theatre: "It's A Great- Life!!

Word Theatre: "Madonna of

European Mail.-Inward: Europe vid Suez (Macedonia). Outward:

Avenue A at Leo Europe vid Siberia (Macedonia),

p.m.

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p.13.

Hockey: Tamar and Small ships

P. Somerseta.

Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel,

8.30 p.m.

Star Theatre: "Noah's Ark." Central Theatre: Tanned Legs." Majestic Theatre: "Lilac Time," Concert at Helena May Institute;: Kowloon Branch.

Jumble Sala, Union Church. Queen's Theatre: "It's A Great Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel, Life.'

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