RADNOR ROAD NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7, 6 May 1912, Page 5

RADNOR ROAD NOTES.

(From Our 1 Own Correspondent.) ' . “A ’ i ' ' The frightful weather of late has settled the evening milking around here, although some few farmers, more persistent than 1 * the rest, continue to struggle through night and morning, in a strenuous endeavour to lay up a few more pence for our long “rainy day.” . A number of sports meetings have been held around this district, during the autumn and I wish to congratulate Radnor and Denbigh Roads on holding their end of the stick up in the sports lino. It is to their credit, that, although their ordinary day’s work consists of about sixteen hours, they can Mso find time for a little recreation, read much of a person requiring eight, or even nine hours’ sleep a day. Let me tell you that the farmer nevei gets it in the busy summer months. Six hours at the most he gets, and oven thono one farmer I know around here evidently sleeps with one eye shut and the other on the skyline, in' search of the first streak of dawn. The new school which has been started in temporary premises on Mr. Vickers’ property is going along nicely, Miss Haddrel, the teacher, having also organised a Sunlay-school, this giving moral as well as mental training.. . The chief topic of conversation here some weeks ago was cheese. If you had asked any small boy what the moon was made of he would certainly have answered green cheese, hub a change has crept into the conversation and if you asked him now, the words nearest the tip of his tongue would be casein or dried milk. Both these latter products have evidenly a future before them. The merits of dried milk have been brought conspicuously before the public, since its use by Amundson on his dash to the Pole. IE has great possibilities as an army food. It soothes the feelings of us farmers to reflect that, although too old to join the Territorials, wo can still be of use at home, by preparing dried milk fo) the young ’uns on service. Napoleon s famous saying that God is on the s.dc of the big battalions, will have to hr and extended, by adding the Wtrds: “And who arc best suppled ■with dried milk.” We hope that the saying “I.hose who hesitate are lost,” will net turn out true in the case of lhe Midhirst and Stratford factories, when tiny hesitated before rushing pelhincll into the cheese line. We think they acted with some wisdom in to see what will turn up trumps. Why should casein and dried milk not be worth almost as much as butter-fat P If such were the case the farmer, instead of getting one shilling per lb : butter-fat would get two, which, although it sounds rather greedy, would bo very acceptable. Some of the settlers on the upper end of Radnor Road are greatly handicapped, through having a long way to cart their milk. We sent several imputations to Midhirst Factory directors’ meetings, indeeel, the last time we turned out cm masse, which we thought might intimidate any Smaller body of men. But the Mid- ' hirst" directors evidently have some nerve. On each occasion they declined to erect us a creamery. Co-operative concerns are l : kc private concerns in one particular, as the tramp said: “They ain’t got no souls!”