FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



words something about their jobs and the part 

 they are taking in the nation's war effort. 



Now, Mr. Pressy, you know about the national 

 effort to plough another two million acres of grass- 

 land for cropping this season. Actually 2,034,000 

 acres have been ploughed and Wiltshire has done 

 its share well with 42,600 acres. How have you 

 and your fellow-workers been getting on with this 

 job. 



J. P. : Well, Mr. Hurd, speaking from the farm- 

 worker's point of view we look upon it as a very 

 easy job for the officials in Whitehall to give an 

 order for 2,000,000 acres of fresh land to be broken 

 up, and it's all very well for the County War Com- 

 mittee to drive round the country-side and mark 

 off the fields to be ploughed. But after all it is 

 we farm workers who have to do the donkey work 

 in ploughing the land, sowing the seed, harvesting 

 the crop, and threshing the corn, all extra work for 

 our already depleted staff, but I can assure you we 

 shall put our backs into the work. Provided we 

 can have assistance during harvest, I believe we 

 shall do it all right. 



We are not blind to the fact that we farm workers 

 have been placed in a reserved occupation during 

 wartime so that we can make a big effort to keep 

 the people from starving. Those of us who fought 

 in the last war know only too well that ours is a 

 better job than fighting in the trenches. 



A. H. : Yes, I am glad to know that you are all 

 stout-hearted enough to face whatever is ahead. 

 Tell me, foreman, what is your opinion about 



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