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ploughing up a further acreage for next year and 

 an extra harvest in 1941 ? Do you think the farm 

 staff will be equal to dealing with still a bigger 

 harvest ? 



J. P. : Well, I think that very much depends 

 upon what extra labour can be found to give us 

 assistance. If the fighting forces will leave us a 

 good foundation in our well-trained men we don't 

 mind working in a few untrained people if they 

 have got a will to work. Land girls and strong 

 schoolboys can be very useful during hay and corn 

 harvest. Why, back in my early days we used to 

 have quite a lot of women to work on the land 

 during the summer months and even in the winter 

 they would come out and cut the bonds when we 

 were threshing. 



A. H. : Now is there any other direction, do you 

 think, where we might look for a bigger yield from 

 the land ? 



J. P. : Yes ; previous to my present job, for many 

 years I was driving a threshing machine moving 

 about from farm to farm, and during that time I 

 came across some very low yields per acre. I 

 expect the same thing goes on to-day. What these 

 fields want is more put into them and then bigger 

 crops will be grown. I always found the best 

 yields on the farm where the farmer kept a flock 

 of sheep. And you know we landworkers know 

 when land is being properly farmed, and when it 

 isn't — and there's too much bad farming about 

 to-day. One day the war committees will have 

 to get after these slack farmers. 



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