FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



a continual expense. All this has been eliminated 

 and we now haul the milk right to London in our 

 own lorries, daily, of course. This involves the 

 use of two lorries and two drivers. One would 

 do the job, but it is not a safe proposition because 

 one might very easily break down, therefore we 

 provide two and when one is on the road doing 

 the London journey, the other is available for the 

 farm and nursery work. I calculate this saving in 

 railway carriage to be a considerable one. I am 

 pretty certain you can afford a new one every 

 three years. 



There is also another pull to the credit side of 

 the account by this new organization ; each day we 

 haul the milk out we bring back the feeding-stuffs 

 for animal consumption. In the old days what a 

 bother it was to find someone to take the milk to 

 the station when the milking was over, but we find 

 no difficulty in getting a driver to take the London 

 daily journey. During hay and harvest time I have 

 often heard this remark as the men were sitting 

 down taking their tea, " The milk lorry is back, 

 we shall have a bit more help soon." 



It has often occurred to me when examining the 

 detailed figures of the balance sheet to give up the 

 bother and trouble of dealing with a neighbour's 

 threshing business. When I do give thought to 

 this question I cannot escape a new urge to carry 

 on for the very reason that it is a unit of the whole, 

 and therefore why discontinue it ? It certainly fills 

 up an odd moment for a lorry to haul coal, oil, 

 etc., and the men too come in for the summer 



84 



