WOMEN FARMERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

WOMEN FARMERS.

WAR-TIME CHANGES AT DAIRY SHOW. The London Dairy Show, always a great event in the countrywoman's calendar was never such a busy hive of women as it was this year. There was a moment in the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington when all that this show means was epitomised in one scene. m^ double ring of apple-cheeked dairymaids clad in spotless linen, with sleeves uprolled turned their churns; and they turned them to the time of the H Guard music, played in a bower of palms in the centre :— pa-ims

Tfir*i he u ome fiTOs truing lul the boys .come home. I ♦hi' m<3n v, mad - Practically the whole of the soft cheese," said a member of the council, "'and at least 90 per cent of the other cheese. Women reared, fed and* lulled nearly all the table poultry'- the eggs are from fowls kept and tens.il K» women. Much of the ho&y to* s£ftJ£ the hives of women bee-keepers. OS™ to the war women are increasingly be° , coming the feeders." oasm SV be- j The bulk of the crowd were women and ' of the men many were in khakL There were blue-frocked women herdsmen in Ch K-P^ u the g ° at *> *">* of which were exbamted by women. It is in J resoecta » magmficient show-perhaps the C <yer held—owing to the war's «rPn,;„ ?• oFiaferio* entrifa. the war a dunmafc .