This month's cover

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 79, Issue 2, 15 August 1949, Page 97

This month's cover

Because meals are usually prepared on an extensive scale, particularly during shearing and harvesting, farm kitchens : are generously proportioned. Often, too, it is in the kitchen that the farm family relaxes after the evening meal; and it is such a family scene that is reproduced on this month’s cover from an original painting by L. C. Mitchell. ■ While in some respects the pattern of family life on New Zealand farms today conforms to that of previous generations, in other respects it is vastly changed. Transport facilities have been improved to such an extent that in recent years most rural areas receive newspapers and mail regularly and the farmer is able to keep abreast of stock an crop prices and general farming trends. Radio has played a most significant part in removing some of the disabilities of farming communities. New Zealand Department of Agriculture HEAD OFFICE: Dominion. Farmers’ Institute Building, Featherston Street, Wellington. DIRECTOR-GENERAL: E. J. Fawcett . ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL: ", R. B. Tennent DIVISIONAL DIRECTORS: Animal Research . . . . J. F. Filmer Dairy . , • . . . . . . H. A. Foy Extension . . .. P. W. Smallfield Horticulture .. . . A. M. W. Greig Livestock . . . . . . W. C. Barry