Farmers’ Wives

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30451, 27 May 1964, Page 16

Farmers’ Wives

Sir, —I am indeed sorry if Mrs McCaw took my remarks to be sneers. They certainly were not meant as such; nor have I any cause to sneer, my own position not being as secure as she would suggest. Surely farmers’ wives reap some benefit from replacements to homes and farms? Maybe they are the unpaid servants Of the farmers —their husbands. If so, then it is up to them to remedy the situation. .1 have no cause to feel ashamed, either. I usually accompanied my mother to the cow-shed, first as a baby in my pram, and later as her only helper during the haying seasons. There were grim times, with floods and fires and droughts, but there were happy times, too. I only wish I could, give my own ■ three sons the benefit (not necessarily'a material benefit) of a farm upbringing. It would stand them in good stead for their whole lives. As to the old stone jar, it is nearly always empty, after paying the high prices for meat, milk, eggs, and firewood, taken so much for granted on most farms.—Yours, etc., FARMER’S DAUGHTER. May 25, 1964. [This correspondence may now cease.—Ed., “The Press.”]