BRITISH FARMERS WORKING 70 HOURS WEEKLY
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Received Tuesdav, 7.0 p.m: LONDON, May 20 British farmers are reported to b now working a 70-hour week to wii liack food from winter 's rain. Recov ery in the flood hinds has been so rapit that it is estimatbd that 80 per cen of the land will bear some ltind of croi this year but spring sown wheat i: likely to be hajf a milliofi acres slior of the target becauSfe farmers clios oats and barley as more reliable lat crops. Gruzing is reported to be goohfid millt pfodtietion is inerea'sing bu cattle and, herds are reduced by ratior ing-aiid the weathet. Bllzzard casua1 ties of hill sheep increase vveekly.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 May 1947, Page 5
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