FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



rotation, all worked out to arrive on a certain day 

 to commence lambing. By some mischance the 

 shepherd had miscalculated the day on which they 

 were due to start, consequently they were held back 

 in a certain field ; however, instinct must have 

 prompted them to make an effort to arrive on time ; 

 on two occasions the foreman reported that he was 

 obliged to send someone to put them back into 

 the half-way meadow. On the third morning, to 

 my amazement, I met them again on their way down, 

 just comfortably walking along. They were deter- 

 mined to get into the right field for lambing. They 

 were right and the shepherd was wrong, for lo and 

 behold the very next morning quite a few lambs 

 arrived. 



Machinery 



There is no escape from a situation of finding 

 yourself surrounded by obsolete machinery. Last 

 year I remember a conversation with a well-known 

 and up-to-date farmer at an agricultural show. 

 He remarked, " How happy one would be if one 

 could just give an order to transport all this modern 

 machinery home and send back all the obsolete stuff 

 one has about." How true that is, but then one 

 cannot just do it, the balance sheet resents such 

 treatment. 



We have a set of steam-plough engines in very 

 good order, in fact they are still doing good work, 

 and we quite realize they are far from an economic 

 proposition. But there again they seem to take 

 their place in the general scheme when a busy time 



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