the time nature requires to produce is much larger than that required for the human contribution of seeding, cultivating, and harvesting
 Henry Ford, My Life and Work (1922). copy citation

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Author Henry Ford
Source My Life and Work
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Date 1922
Language English
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“As an indication, take our valve plant. We established it eighteen miles out in the country so that the workers could also be farmers. By the use of machinery farming need not consume more than a fraction of the time it now consumes; the time nature requires to produce is much larger than that required for the human contribution of seeding, cultivating, and harvesting; in many industries where the parts are not bulky it does not make much difference where they are made. By the aid of water power they can well be made out in farming country. Thus we can, to a much larger degree than is commonly known, have farmer-industrialists who both farm and work under the most scientific and healthful conditions.” source