OVERSEAS LADY FARMERS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20961, 26 February 1930, Page 10

OVERSEAS LADY FARMERS.

TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND. OUT TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, February 25 Iwo successful lady farmers are members of the Empire farmers’ party which is visiting New Zealand. Mrs Llewellvn Lloyd, who has been managing the family estate in Southern Rhodesia since the death of her husband, bas 20,000 acres of mixed farm land t - look after, and she devotes her time to its management when she is not visiting England to supervise her children s education. » oonnot sa 'T , an ? vel T fond of farming, Mrs Lloyd admitted, “but I .simply cannot avoid the responsibility. We go in for practically l ■ everything—cattle, horses, a few; sheep, pigs, and various kinds of agriculture, including tobacco, maize, and potato growing. The cattle are sent to the Johannesburg market and the cream from the dairy herds at one time had to be sent 400 miles to a facto,y Happily all that has been changed now/ “ "

Mrs Lloy-d’s ranch is situated at an altitude of 4000‘feet to 5000 feet at Gorubi springs, on the Inyazura River, between Salisbury and Umtali, and, it is noted lor the intensive cultivation carried on at the plateau bearing extremely rich soil. ihe other lady farmer—Mrs H. Russellhergusson—owns a model dairy farm of , acr ° s T a Jf -^PP, ln . in Argyllshire, Scotin 11 ,. »nave been farming for about ~7 y eari? > said, Mrs Russell-Fergusson. We only have about 25 cows, and I do my own retaining and selling of milk, supplying the fown of Ballychulish. I was very keen on pig breeding at one time, but lately I have given it up and merged everything into retail dairying, ihe farm also grows all kinds of agricultural produce.”

ladies evince a keen interest in the_ farming methods in New Zealand. We have come to find out all we can, nqu merely to satisfy our curiosity, but with the idea of applying anything we earn to our own farms,” said Mrs'Llewelyn Lloyd.