FARMING AND FOXHUNTING 



It is amazing what a taste for tomatoes has 

 grown up during recent years, the taste seems almost 

 insatiable, and now in wartime they are regarded 

 as a necessary food, one is well satisfied with every 

 effort to grow the crop. 



On four and a quarter acres we shall hope to 

 gather during the season, of six months, something 

 approaching i6o tons with a staff of 25 men, women 

 and boys during the peak period. No very close 

 observation is necessary to conclude these few acres 

 are turning out their quota of food in wartime. 



Since venturing into cropping under glass I am 

 agreeably surprised to find how it can be linked up 

 with general farming. Labour is a very important 

 factor and one which can be very expensive 

 unless carefully organized. The nurseries provide 

 work under cover when the weather does not 

 provide work in the fields. I also find one can 

 place a delicate man under the glass where he 

 continues to find employment which might otherwise 

 be discontinued. Interchanges can be instituted 

 during seasonal operations, at times one can just 

 save a crop by concentration of labour if only for a 

 few hours. Then, again, your farm can provide 

 the farmyard manure, straw, etc., and your trans- 

 port is forthcoming from your farm lorries to haul 

 a matter of 500 tons of coal. All these various 

 services can be charged up to the nursery account 

 which indeed makes quite a useful credit to the 

 farm balance sheet. 



It was rather curious how the idea emanated to 

 enter the market-garden world, or rather growing 



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