THEN AND NOW
CHANGES IN FARMING CONDITIONS BIGGER AREAS AND BUSIER MEN" In the discussion that took place at last Executive meeting of the Auckland Farmers' Union in reference to< the supervision of farmers of the holdings of neighbours who had gone to the war, one of the speakers stressed the great change that has come 1 over farming trends since the last great, Avar. At that time, he said, the possession of 20 to 30 cows constituted a good dairy farm; now the number would be nearer to 80. With modern methods, fertilisers, etc., stock holdings were bigger and the general work mere intensified and exacting. This inevitably increased the burdens of those who added to their own work the responsibility of supervising a neighbour's farm. Then there was the Home Guard, and he did not think there was a farmer in his district who Avas fit to shoulder a rifle who- was not doing it. Anothcr membcr mentioned that besides working his own allotment of 2000 acres he was supervising a neighbour's farm of 3000 acres and was chairman of the local company of the Home Guard.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 23, 2 March 1942, Page 5
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189THEN AND NOW Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 23, 2 March 1942, Page 5
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