HELP IN THE COWYARD.
A FARM DAUGHTER'S PLAINT.
(To the Editor.)
We have been dairy farming for eight years and even in slump times neither my mother nor I had to help in the cowyard with our 70 cows, for we always employed a youth. Since the very low guaranteed price of butterfat has been announced and the new scale of farm wages known we find that we cannot afford a man to be employed on the farm, and we will both have to assist milking and with other farm work. The production on the farm must suffer with only my father to do the ploughing, top-dressing, etc., and one must remember farm produce ifi practically our only exportable asset. One of the Labour Ministers went round the country telling farmers and others that his Government was bringing in legislation which was going to make the life of the farmers' wife and family so much easier, and we were all so pleased, for some of our friends have had to work rather hard. It has been a great shock to _ find that we have been misled and instead of having lese work all women in our district, and it is a dairying one, find their work has greatly increased. FARMER'S DAUGHTER.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 206, 1 September 1936, Page 6
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