Icarnsu FARM MACHINES.
Something was said in this place last week about the arti- ficial drying of crops, especially by a landowner and farmer in Cheshire. The British experiments are, I understand, being followed with interest in Scandinavia. It is remarkable that British inventors were never so active as to-day in devising mechanical aids to agriculture and horticulture. The new
sprayers, the new sugar-beet lifters and potato-lifters, the new garden cultivators, some of the dry-feeders, and milking machines are all admired abroad. It must, of course, be confessed that we import a good deal of agricultural and horti- cultural machinery ; but it remains generally true that the more our agriculture decays, the greater is the energy of the makers and designers of farming tools and machines.
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