WOMEN IN MILKING SHEDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21596, 14 September 1933, Page 12

WOMEN IN MILKING SHEDS

Sir —I W ould like, as one of practical experience, .to air my views above question. As a girl I was bro ght up on a farm, and could milk well at the ag6 of ten years, having learned from choice on my own accord. I am now a farmer's wife with a family or ten children, and havo. helped with milking for now oyer thirty years almost continuously, It-ach of my children, like those of a previous correspondent s lias in turn been taken to the shed and placed in q, box while I helped with the cows, and I dare anyone to say that X am or that they are any the worse for it. In addition to this, I have also, at various times, helped my husband feeding calves and pigs, and in the fields haymaking, feeding out, etc., not neglecting my _ househo d duties, which any woman with a family knows are not light. My eider children have been lately a big help to me m the home, but I still take my place in the shed, and am proud of it, helping my husband to pull through the present bad times. In my opinion, any woman who refuses to help in the milking shed is placing on herself too high an honour in calling herself, as I do, A Farmer's Wife.