FARM LABOUR

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21938, 12 November 1936, Page 10

FARM LABOUR

SHORTAGE IN ENGLAND , M England apparently also has its fßjUsjJjfe labour problems, according to a in the “Farmer and Stock Breedas***^ “At the end of the third wedklfJfe; September one still sees a con»wW*y able acreage of corn, and hay, iHk unharvested. It iias been a quite ceptional year. I cannot recall difcgfe. quite as bad But while we an wßpljiiE; harvesting in the south, friends of MMhiw in the north of Scotland finid»*wjK«v fortnight ago. To add to our in the south, farm workers. espediWfflMfe of the casual kind, are now extreMKaaK difficult to- find. “In my district Government VpHWBBf are largely responsible for the scaflmKjHp. while there is a cement works PiiWMBHB Is an hour for navvying. It is ijAHH; like taking in each other’s wdUMi but even that, 1 suppose, is preiefMKHK to enforced idleness. “In competition for labour with industries we always seem to good lap behind, and are likely m jHHII main -so, which seems to lead t||HH melancholy conclusion that the mHH| ary producers must somehow or wHWI contrive to do with as little lab^R|KVH