Scenic Ricks An observant traveller about rural England might notice
a particular change in one of the common objects of the landscape. The haystacks and some of the straw stacks are no longer—on many farms—grouped massively in the yard. Instead, they- are dotted freely in the very fields from which the crop was gathered. The cause of the change lies in the pneumatic rubber wheels on the newer huin-carts. They have made it very much easier and quicker to fetch hay when wanted from any field more or less adjacent to the homestead ; and it is of great advantage to hurry the process of harvesting by stacking in situ. A certain number of the tractors used in this year's harvest have rubber wheels, but their use in this regard is not of proved value. The rubber-wheeled cart has certainly come to stay. By aid of its easy motion even light horses can haul heavy loads ; and with it no load is too heavy for the shire horse.
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