PRESENT-DAY FARMING 



season's work on the farm, or probably at the 

 nurseries. 



This question of keeping your staff employed 

 the full year round is solved to some extent by 

 using a parlour type of milking machine. You 

 certainly release three men to deal with work in 

 the fields during the summer months. It is often 

 claimed — perhaps with some truth — that your yield 

 of milk will suffer when you are forced to resort 

 to using machinery in the cow-byre, but when you 

 weigh it all up I believe one is well advised to 

 install it. In the case of sickness too you can often 

 produce a man who can untie a cow or perhaps 

 wash it, when he might be totally unqualified to 

 milk it. 



Sheep 



Hitherto pedigree Hampshire Down sheep have 

 been a very strong feature in our productive effort. 

 There is little doubt but that they have made a 

 good contribution to heavy crops of corn in past 

 years, in fact up to the outbreak of this present 

 war, but at the moment they appear to be a heavy 

 liability. One can very rightly argue it would be 

 a sound proposition to clear them off and take the 

 cash they should have left lying in the soil, but 

 taking the long view can we visualize the day when 

 our pedigree flocks and herds will be no more ? 

 I hardly think so. 



Look back through the last century and note the 

 time and effort expended to build up these excellent 

 stocks, surely we are not going to lose our pride 



85 G 



