FARMING IN POLAND
Sir John Russell, director of the Rothamsted Experimental. Station, who recently visited Poland, returned to England with some interesting facts. He found that men working on farms get practically no cash wages—only about Is a week; they are paid almost wholly in kind. They get 30cwt of grain a year, half an acre of ground for potatoes, food for a cow, and fuel. Thus the Polish farmer’s wages bill is met mainly by the produce on his farm, and so far as wages are concerned it does not matter to him if market prices are high or low. Poland is sending increased quantities of butter, eggs, and bacon to the English market, and it is not surprising that she can afford to unload them at low prices.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23044, 21 November 1936, Page 6
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