BRITISH FARMER.
HIS LABOUR TROUBLES. A LOT MORE WORK. HOUSING OF CATTLE. “Wlmt a lot of labour tlicro is at lachod to farming at Home; so much provision for tho winter,” writes a New Zealand farmer at present on holiday in Britain. “The summer is so short and the winter so long, stock have to be housed for six or seven months, and this entails a great lot of labour. We found a lot of the English farmers severely pressed. They said it was almost impossible to make farming pay. # “The prices of sheep hero have been
much lower than was the eaxo a year or so ago; lamb at about tOd per lb. beef at Sd to Dd per lb deadweight.
But then those who are fattening cattle are giving them a lot of oil cake, even in the summer time. We have seen some places where they can keep up to 160 head of cattle inside aF the winter.”
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20419, 22 September 1938, Page 4
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