STILL “IN CLOVER?”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 13 January 1944, Page 3

STILL “IN CLOVER?”

“Some of the bits of real life that come my way are so incredible that I know it would be useless for me to pass them on to you. The only excuse for them is that they really happened. Try this one. In the East End of London, not far from Clerkenwall, there flourishes a dairy farm. Imagine, if you can, a herd of cows, living in the heart of the East End, stabled in a mews. They’ve never seen the country. They’ve never gone grazing in a field. Instead of walking all over their breakfast, dinner and tea, as their country cousins do, they sit back and have their food brought to them: slabs of cut cake, made, I suppose, from dried grass. Whether they are attended by a waiter in tails with a napkin over his arm, my informant did not know. What she did know was that these urban cows supply all the milk for a London Maternity Hospital.” —(Gerald Buliett, in “Life at Home”, broadcast in the 8.8. C. overseas service).