FARMS IN LONDON
WAR-TIME CULTIVATION. ■ • RUGBY, July 13. The heart of London is getting from its own farms hundreds of tons of meat and vegetables a year for hospitals and other institutions in the metropolis. London’s citizens ' are farmers of 4000 acres, mostly witban The most severely bombed areas. They own 1500 head of pedigree cattle, 3000 pigs, 7000 head of poultry, and 550 sheep. In a year of “blitz” these farms, run by the'London County Council, produced more than ever before—3oo,ooo eggs, 550,000 gallons of milk, 351 tons of meat, 1668 tons of vegetables, and 81 tons of fruit. In London’s parks 200 acres is being worked by borough councils for growing food. Sheep graze on 600 acres. .In the centre of London alone individual Londoners are raising food from their allotments on 450 acres.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 July 1941, Page 6
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