THE FARM OF TO-DAY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3927, 16 July 1937, Page 6

THE FARM OF TO-DAY

MODERN METHODS How like mother. Did she really not know that that kind of old-fashioned small mixed farm—where the poultry laid anywhere they fancied, in hedges or hayloft, and the cows had Christian names and went dry for temperamental reasons—did not exist nowadays, and had therefore almost ceased to exist. Farms to-day were so much an exact science that even the cows were only allowed to moo at stated intervals. You kept either a dairy farm or a poultry farm, or you bred prize dogs. The hens must be either prolific layers or good table birds. They must be kept in special pens, fed on special combination of foodstuffs, and their eggs caught in numbered traps. Electric light, special milking machines and separators furnished the new cowsheds. Wire netting enclosures had quite replaced green growing hedges and friendly wooden fences (liable to rot). Even the farm cat must have a pedigree.—Sylvia Stevenson, “Flowering Aloe.”