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Show MOTOR TRACTORS TO DRAW FIELD PLOWS Moonlight Nights Will Be Utilized to Expedite Agricultural Work in England. IjOXDON. March 10. On (ho moonlight nights of tlie coming spring it may be that the countryside will hear i he unfamiliar un-familiar nolFe of the motor tractors dragging drag-ging their r-Iows across the fields. The hoard of agriculture hns Issued a circular to the war agricultural committees announcing an-nouncing that these tractors will goon be at their disposal for use In tho fields. In order to tret on with the necessary plowing an quickly a-s possible, the board hopes that advantage will be taken of moonlight nights to keep thpse implements imple-ments at work as long as posnlble. Thev i will remain the property of the board of I agrtcult ure, but arrangements for their I use will he In the hands of the county ! committees, preference being civen tr, , land which might not otherwise he plowed, hut which, hy its nat-ire am! condition, con-dition, may be expected to produce a crop in 1917. I |