. Canadian foundryman (1918). boy, attending aBritish Public School. There were anumber of other passengers waiting forthe same train, among them being thevicar of the parish of Trevethin,the J. C. Llewelyn, a wellknown and renowned clergyman of theChurch of England. He was talking tosome farmers, who lived in his district,and the conversation ran about as fol-lows: He told them that he had receiveda letter from a former member of thechurch, who had emigrated to America,stating that there had been invented andthere was now in use in the United Statesa machine that while being drawnthroug
. Canadian foundryman (1918). boy, attending aBritish Public School. There were anumber of other passengers waiting forthe same train, among them being thevicar of the parish of Trevethin,the J. C. Llewelyn, a wellknown and renowned clergyman of theChurch of England. He was talking tosome farmers, who lived in his district,and the conversation ran about as fol-lows: He told them that he had receiveda letter from a former member of thechurch, who had emigrated to America,stating that there had been invented andthere was now in use in the United Statesa machine that while being drawnthrough the field, would cut the wheat,put it up into sheaves, bind it and dropit, ready for being put into shocks, as itwent along. The conversation was interesting Lome as, boylike, I had profound respectfor the vicar. I now recall the expres-sion of doubt on the faces of the farm-ers, and the smile from the vicar whoacquiesced with their thoughts, and Ican now hear him distinctly stating thathe very much doubted that such a ma-. GEORGE A. SIMPSON chine could be made and applied in gen-eral use, with which the farmers, whowere at that time cutting their \vhe:.twith a sickle, were very much in accord. When we consider what the sons ofUncle Sam have done for the agriculturalworld and realize that their first at-tempts were classed as bluffs, we canmore fully appreciate how ridiculous anduncalled for the expression is. Andwhat applies to the endeavors of UncleSame in the production of agriculturalimplements applies to everything he hasseriously undertaken. As a boy I went to sea in an Englishsailing ship, and I remember very wellmy first introduction to what I thenconsidered bluff. We had crossed theAtlantic from England to the West In-dies with a cargo of coal and had rundown to Pensacola, Florida, for our re-turn cargo of lumber. After we had dis-charged our ballast, we were towed outinto the bay where our complete cargoof logs had been rafted and was thereawaiting us. I remember he
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